Top Deliverability’s Blog
Spam Resource: Do you have a deliverability problem? Do I?
- July 26, 2023
- Posted by: Top Deliverability
- Category: Industry News Spam Resource
Al Iverson just issued another interesting story on Spam Resource:
That screenshot above is from an email message that I received recently. I get a lot of wacky emails, but this one takes it to a whole new level. This person did not research his target very well, and I find the content to be borderline deceptive. They are careful to say “I have results about” not “I see that you’re having trouble” to sort of hedge the bet, as if to say “I have information about your spam folder percentage” only to find out that the percentage is zero, and to be met with the defense “but zero is a percent.”This is silly. And I share this silliness not to name and shame (note that I have not shared the sender’s last name or company), but to point out that you can’t always trust everything that people tell you. In this case, I run my own dedicated MTA, with
Continued here: Do you have a deliverability problem? Do I?
Leave a Reply Cancel reply
Email Service Providers Handbook
The most comprehensive “Handbook of Email Service Providers“!
SPAMASSASSIN RULES
All SpamAssassin rules in one place, EXPLAINED!
SMTP COMMANDS
& REPLY CODES
All SMTP/ESMTP commands and reply codes in one place, EXPLAINED!
Free DNS Tool
Check the DNS records of your domain with our free DNS tool.
Deliverability Glossary
The most comprehensive Email Deliverability and Marketing Glossary!
- Glossary: Spam Folder
- Glossary: Sender
- Glossary: Mail Transfer Agent (MTA)
- Glossary: Deliverability
- Glossary: Email Service Provider (ESP)
- Glossary: SpamAssassin
- Glossary: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
- Glossary: Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
- Glossary: Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (ESMTP)
- Glossary: Domain Name System (DNS)