Having difficulty getting your newsletter and email marketing messages delivered to the inbox of the Gmail email contacts on your mailing list? Gmail Email Tips: How to Avoid the Gmail Spam Folder I compiled some Gmail email tips for bulk email senders that will help you to avoid the Gmail spam folder and get your [...]

Hotmail inbox delivery rates will decline as a result of recent changes made to Hotmail spam filters, which are now set to scrutinize even opt-in email newsletter and email marketing campaigns from legitimate senders. Why ? As part of a recent war on graymail, Hotmail has established some new hurdles for getting email delivered to [...]

Apparently, there is a new Twitter Direct Message (DM) Phishing scam being distributed at the moment. I received a twitter Direct Message notification from a friend of ours via an email in our helpdesk tonight. According to the DM, our friend was warning that there was a “bad blog going around about you, seen it [...]

  What is spam? Believe it or not, the answer you get when asking what is spam? will vary depending on who you ask. To some, it is ANY email they receive that they don’t want, regardless of whether they signed-up to receive it or not. Others will say that spam can only be defined [...]

As someone who works in the email marketing software and services industry, I wonder sometimes if the strategy to control email spam is actually counterproductive. I often get calls from customers who are frustrated by the hoops they have to jump through to get email delivered to the inbox of their customers. In fact, I [...]

Have you ever wondered who sends you all of that Viagra, Replica Watches, Male enhancement, University Degree, Casino, Weight Loss and other annoying spam that makes its way into your inbox every day? Do you know how many spam emails are sent out each day? How much money do spammers make sending all of that [...]

“I won! I won! I won the Microsoft Global Email Lottery!” …oh, wait You won too? And, so did about 306 million other undisclosed-email recipients in the United States? Well, it was sure fun while it lasted.

Recently, I received a few inquiries about spam, sender reputation, antispam filters, blacklists and all of those other related issues that come between an email sender and an email recipient. For some reason, our corporate antispam filter seemed to be somewhat overzealous over the past few days as well; and I have been finding a [...]