Spam Resource: Pro-tip: Age that new domain before sending

Al Iverson just issued a new brilliant blogpost on Spam Resource:

Here’s an easy tip that I wanted to share with everyone. It’s something I knew about myself but didn’t take into consideration (I guess I got tripped up in my own “do as I say, not as I do” kind of thing). As mentioned, recently I set up my own mailbox provider to host my own mail, and as part of that, I set up a new domain name. (I didn’t HAVE to set up a new domain name, but it made setup a bit easier; I could dedicate the whole domain to my new project, and I could simply jettison the domain if I decide to shut the service down later.)I set the server up and tried sending the first few test messages, and immediately started to see Spamhaus blocks. The error messages basically said something like “mail blocked due to domain being listed on zrd.dq.spamhaus.net.” ZRD? A quick

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