Email Deliverability Insights, Tips & Monitoring Strategies
Improve Email Delivery with PowerMTA’s Defer-Job Setting
2023/04/14 by Alex Irimia.
Email delivery is a critical aspect of any business’s communication strategy. However, maintaining a good reputation for your email delivery IP can be a challenge, especially when using a shared IP with multiple customers. In such a scenario, the actions of one customer with a low reputation can adversely affect the entire queue, causing delays […]
Categories: Authentication, Deliverability, General, PowerMTA
Postmastery joins Signal Spam
2023/02/20 by Willem Stam.
Postmastery is becoming a member of Signal Spam to ensure our clients have maximum visibility into reputational threats and complaints emanating from the french eco-system. Signal Spam is a non-profit organisation dedicated to fighting against electronic messaging abuse, including spam, phishing, and malicious email content. It was founded in 2005 and is based in Paris, […]
Categories: Authentication, Deliverability, General
Warming sender reputation fast and getting it right!
2023/01/10 by Maarten Oelering.
Warming IP and domain reputation does not need to take months – there are many things you can do to speed up the process. Even a large enterprise sender can warm a range of IPs and domains in weeks. Proper preparation, planning and tools are essential to warm up your sender reputation. Enterprise senders often […]
Categories: Case Studies, Deliverability, General
PowerMTA & Managed Deliverability
2020/11/24 by Willem Stam.
Client case: MailPoet MailPoet was founded in 2011 in France with a simple mission: allow thousands of WordPress website owners to create and send emails from the comfort of their WordPress admin. MailPoet built a simple, intuitive, and rock solid solution to deliver their users’ emails on time, every time. Below you can read more […]
Categories: Case Studies, Deliverability, General, PowerMTA
Delivery issues at LaPoste.net resolved
2018/04/10 by Willem Stam.
On Friday April 6, 2018, Postmastery’s Email Delivery Analytics detected serious delivery issues at LaPoste.net. The most frequent SMTP errors we detected were: 421 4.3.2 No system resources 421 4.3.2 All server ports are busy 451 4.7.1 Service unavailable – try again later 421 4.7.0 lpn-prd-vrin0xx Error: too many errors 421 4.4.2 lpn-prd-vrin0xx Error: timeout […]
Categories: Deliverability, General, Providers
New SMTP replies at Outlook: update your backoff patterns to avoid reputation damage
2018/04/06 by Willem Stam.
On April 5th, at 5AM CET, we were alerted by a huge spike in Outlook deferrals. The chart below (copied from Postmastery Delivery Analytics) reveals the deferrals over time: After investigating the issue, Postmastery delivery engineers discovered new SMTP replies at Microsoft domains. These errors are receiver’s side, not related to sender’s reputation. Organization queue quota […]
Categories: Authentication, Deliverability, General, Providers
AOL and Yahoo merge could impact your email delivery and MTA
2018/02/26 by Willem Stam.
A few weeks ago, AOL reported that AOL and Yahoo will come together under the OATH umbrella and merge with the Yahoo email infrastructure to serve both brands. This happened on 20 February 2018, and now all the AOL recipient domains’ MX, including the following, will point to mx-aol.mail.gm0.yahoodns.net: – aol.com – verizon.net – aol.co.uk […]
Categories: Authentication, Deliverability, General, PowerMTA, Providers