Al Iverson
Thanks to a new feature in iOS 16, it’s pretty easy for you to schedule an email you’re writing to be automatically sent in the future at a certain time. Check out the how-to here, courtesy of Mac Observer.And if you’re looking for more information on all the different new email-related features in iOS 16, here you go, courtesy of Apple Insider.
What’s up with that Gmail political email pilot program, previously revealed by Axios and discussed by my friends Jennifer Nespola Lantz and Travis Murray (and me, and others)? Strangely enough, according to the Washington Post, Democrats are flocking to it, and Republicans seem to be avoiding it. Was this a bluff that they weren’t expecting Gmail to call? After all, a number of noisy Republicans complained about, and asked for a way through the spam filtering; they were offered such a path, and don’t seem to want to use it. Instead, the Republican National Committee is suing Google.Color me confused.Why do this now? It won’t be decided in time to affect midterm elections. It makes the whole thing seem like bit of a ploy, focused on publicity. And perhaps a bad faith one, given the opportunity the GOP was already offered to be able to bypass Gmail’s spam filters.And who
Did you know? There is a dog named Spam and he’s dressed up as a pirate for Halloween and he’s up for adoption, courtesy of the Hallie Hill Animal Sanctuary in Hollywood, South Carolina. If you live nearby, you probably should adopt this little guy immediately. Click here for the cuteness.
The email domain love.com was previously owned by AOL, then Verizon, then Yahoo, as the email services and corporate oversight changed for the AOL/Yahoo email services. From the context, it sounds as though it was once possible to have an email address at the love.com domain name — but no longer. Email service for love.com was ended by AOL/Yahoo as of July 31, 2022.It looks as though the domain name love.com was sold to a new company, which was speculated to have netted the domain owner rather a large sum of money.As of October 2022, the domain love.com does currently have an MX record (pointing to Google), but any love.com addresses on a typical marketer’s legacy list is likely going to be from the AOL days and not up to date, so I recommend suppressing those addresses.Please feel free to leave your best “love is dead” jokes in the comments
Estonian webhost and mailbox provider Zone now supports BIMI and will display a sender logo in Zone Webmail, if they’re able to. VMC is required. Find more details here.Doing a quick check of my domain data, I think that Zone’s primary email domains are:webmail.zone.eezone.com.eezone.eezone.euzone.fizone.ltzone.lvThey also host email for more than a thousand other domains for customers; all relevant domains have an MX record pointing to zonemx.eu.
Over on the Oracle Blog, Clint Kaiser, Daniel Deneweth, Jason Witt note that we’re at the one year anniversary of the launch of the Apple Mail Privacy Protection functionality. How did it impact marketers? How does it impact analytics, email deliverability, live content, and email design? The smart gentlemen from Oracle answer these questions and more … read it all here.
Do you want to be kind to your friendly neighborhood mailbox provider? Of course you do! Who doesn’t want to “do a solid” favor for a giant, faceless corporation?? I kid. Seriously, though, this pro-tip has benefit both to you and to the mailbox providers: If you can stagger your send times — don’t launch exactly at zero or thirty minutes past the hour — adjusting send start time by just a few minutes, starting anywhere from perhaps three to eight minutes early or late, you’re likely to see that mail delivered more quickly, and it might be less likely to be throttled. Because everybody else sends at the top or bottom of the hour (exactly), mailbox providers get overwhelmed with inbound email delivery attempts at those exact moments. A representative of one of the big mailbox providers explicitly confirmed for me that this happens. The implication is that if
It’s that time again! Are you living for the weekend? Me, too. And the O’Jays have just the perfect song for us. See you on the east side…or maybe the west side, if you go over the bridge. Enjoy.
Normally now would be a good time for me to provide a write up on the current status of mailbox provider support for BIMI, but my Kickbox colleague Jennifer Nespola Lantz beat me to it, so I’ll just link to her very informative blog post over on the Kickbox blog, where she details which mailbox providers support BIMI today, and which ones require a VMC or not.And don’t forget to check the BIMI section here on Spam Resource to find even more info on BIMI sender logos.BIMI is becoming kind of a big deal!
Hashing, if you didn’t know, is a term generally meant to refer to converting a bit of text, a key, or a file into a specific type of value. In the context of email address hashing, we’re talking about “one way hashing,” meaning that you convert an email address into a hashed value, but once that’s done, you can’t convert it back to an email address.Why do you ever need to hash email addresses? Because, if you’re ever working with a marketing partner, or list rental, or perhaps even a newsletter sponsorship, you need to make sure that the partner or list owner, when sending that advertisement (or newsletter containing the advertisement), doesn’t send it to people who have already unsubscribed from your emails.If I sell widgets, and I’m sponsoring Bob’s newsletter, and he’s going to send out an email advertising widgets for me, to comply with the law (and best