The Postmastery Blog: Insights, Tools & Best Practices for Email Deliverability

PowerMTA High Volume Sending and Email Authentication

So you decided to take the path of in-house deliverability (see our article regarding this topic), but there is one more thing to think about: Which is the sending solution to pick out from the others? By Postmastery, we made up our mind and decided — as well as becoming both an authorized retailer and […]

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Categories: General, PowerMTA

Email domains best practices

Email domains are important for identification, trust and reputation. But emails can embed many domains used for different purposes. They are listed below: IP hostname Envelope sender domain From header domain Reply-To header domain Sender header domain Message-ID domain DKIM signing domain Image URI domain(s) Link URI domain(s) This post provides some background on these […]

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Categories: Authentication, Deliverability, General

SFR incoming email authentication

With the growing strength of phishing campaigns, incoming message authentication has become an important issue for ISPs to protect their users. Various standards exist to authentify outgoing email messages. Since September 2011, SFR has decided to verify the authenticity of incoming emails according to SPF standard and might be thinking of an upcoming implementation of […]

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Categories: Deliverability, General

DMARC: A new standard for domain protection

SMTP protocol is old and easy to use. It was invented before 1980 to enable email sending to private networks. Thanks to the native SMTP protocol, it is possible to send an email using the desired sender address, but this option has also created electronic communication reliability issues as, in particular, the development of phishing […]

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Categories: DMARC, General

What DMARC means for you

A week ago DMARC went public causing a tidal wave of publicity, discussion, and fuzz. Many senders are now asking what they should do with it. In this post I will try to put things in perspective, so senders can judge better what it means for them. First of all, DMARC is not something completely […]

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Categories: Authentication, DMARC, General

Email Service Provider versus In-house

A common question among professional senders is: should I use an Email Service Provider (ESP) or can I send my emails in-house? To find a good answer can be difficult. There are a lot of ESPs and a lot of software vendors ready to help you, but where to get objective advise from? My customers […]

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Categories: Authentication, General, Providers, Solutions

Orange protects its Messaging Infrastructure with Cloudmark Antispam Solution

Since November 15th, Orange has implemented Cloudmark Antispam Solution in order to protect its messaging infrastructure. As quoted on Cloudmark site, Sylvain Causse of France Telecom/ Orange points out: « We selected Cloudmark Antispam Solution considering their expertise and experience in the message security industry, and the high performance and flexibility level of the solutions […]

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Categories: Authentication, General

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