The Postmastery Blog: Insights, Tools & Best Practices for Email Deliverability
How Jobtome replaced 30 Postfix servers with one PowerMTA
2016/06/08 by Willem Stam.
Jobtome helps job seekers access millions of jobs gathered from a hundred thousand recruitment agencyies and employer sites. Jobtome helps companies reach millions of job seekers via pay-per-click based job advertising services. The Challenge: Managing 30 Postfix installations Email is a key business driver within the Jobtome daily operation. The majority of customer interactions are […]
Categories: Authentication, Case Studies, General, Postfix, PowerMTA
Gmail introduces emails with lock
2016/04/06 by Willem Stam.
From now on computer users can see if their emails that go through Gmail are safe by Gmail lock. If so, the email has a special marking. For the time being, this service is only available in the United States. So there is lots of work to do for the companies that send huge amounts […]
Gmail’s wide deployment of TLS
2016/02/22 by Jérôme Gays.
When talking about authentication and encryption technologies —such are SPF, DKIM, DMARC—, Gmail has always been at the cutting edge of the topic. After having implemented Google Postmaster (read our related article), it is therefore possible to monitor the percentage of Google’s outgoing and incoming emails TLS encrypted or not. Announced by Google last week, […]
Categories: Authentication, General, PowerMTA
DMARC: Four Years of Enhancing Email Security - A Look Back and Forward
2015/11/02 by Jérôme Gays.
It has been almost 4 years since the DMARC procedures were first launched, as well as our first publication of an article regarding this topic. As a reminder, DMARC is a Spoofing-fighting validation system. It relies on technologies such as SPF and DKIM, empowering email senders to provide receivers servers with the procedures of what […]
Gmail: Feedback Loop and postmaster page, step-by-step configuration and set up
2015/09/05 by Jérôme Gays.
Google’s Gmail webmail has long been at the forefront of innovation. Where the Californian giant has especially distinguished itself from its competitors are in the quality of its spam processing and its successive ergonomic innovations such as tags, categorization of emails with tabs, unsubscribe button in the interface (list-unsubscribe) and so on. On the other […]
Case study Xsarus: reliable email is crucial
2015/08/05 by Willem Stam.
Xsarus is a supplier of web applications and e-commerce applications, both of which need a well-oiled, reliable email system. Xsarus has found the solution by obtaining a PowerMTA based, bulk email sending system, says Xsarus partner Bram Hoekman. “We used to work with Postfix, a popular mail server. One of Postfix’s advantages is that it […]
Categories: Case Studies, General
Deliverability Alert: Orange implements Spam-report based Dynamic Filtering
2015/05/05 by Jérôme Gays.
As SFR did a few weeks ago, it seems that Orange follows the same path towards implementing an email dynamic filtering based on the volume of the generated complaints. This Deliverability Alert is indeed managed by VadeRetro. The anti Spam solution deployed by the main ISP’s and French Webmails, including Orange, SFR, Free and laposte.net. […]
Categories: Deliverability, General