Email Deliverability Insights, Tips & Monitoring Strategies
Email domains best practices
2013/02/08 by Maarten Oelering.
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 […]
Categories: Authentication, Deliverability, General
SFR incoming email authentication
2012/03/23 by Jérôme Gays.
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 […]
Categories: Deliverability, General
On the classification of bounces
2010/07/07 by Maarten Oelering.
Delivering large volumes of email can be difficult. Properly handing the bounces can be even more challenging. To decode, analyze and classify the hundredths of different bounce mail formats is a complex task. To give you an idea what you might encounter, here are some examples of bounces: 421 4.7.1 Intrusion prevention active for [X.X.X.X] […]
Categories: Authentication, Deliverability, General