Will DKIM Reduce Phishing and other Email 'Spoofing' Attacks? Paid Members Public
DKIM is an email ‘authentication’ method that organizations and ESPs like Pinpointe use to verify to the recipient that the email is coming from a valid email server, and is not being ‘spoofed’ by a spammer. In an interview, Mark Risher, the anti-abuse product manager for Yahoo Mail gives his
DKIM / Authentication Advantages and Disadvantages Paid Members Public
We cover an explanation of DKIM Email Authentication in our blog entry DKIM Email Authentication. Here we’ll summarize some the top advantages and disadvantages. DKIM Authentication – Advantages If you have a very large list, your campaigns are more likely to get blocked or “throttled” by major ISPs like AOL,
Deploying DKIM Authentication in 4 Simple Steps Paid Members Public
DKIM is an emerging e-mail authentication standard supported by Yahoo, Google and others ISPs, as well as a growing number of Email Service Providers like Pinpointe and that was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force. DKIM allows an organization to cryptographically sign outgoing e-mail to verify that it sent
What is Email "Phishing"? Paid Members Public
You know those annoying emails that pretend to be from PayPal, EBay or the local bank, asking you to login to your account and validate your password or other credentials? Those are "phishing" attacks – you've officially been "phished". According to Wikipedia: "Phishing is
Install an SPF Record to Improve Email Delivery Paid Members Public
This entry applies to anyone who will be outsourcing any of their outbound email sending from servers other than their corporate email servers. You are likely an IT person who had landed here because someone from the marketing department said ‘Hey IT dude – we started using an ESP and we
Using ALT Text Tags in HTML Email Paid Members Public
What is ‘ALT Text’ and why should you care? As most of us have now experienced, many email clients now DISABLE graphics images by default. We haven’t seen specific metrics on what % of email inboxes have images disabled by default but general consensus seems to be in the 50%
11 Common SPAM Content Mistakes Paid Members Public
If you send email campaigns long enough, you will run into spam filter issues. As a legitimate email marketer you can still expect 20%+ of your emails to just get lost in cyberspace, mostly due to overzealous spam filters. SPAM filters / firewalls use multiple techniques to determine whether your legitimate
CAN SPAM Act: Update Paid Members Public
During each of our Email Marketing Webinars, we get questions about CAN-SPAM regulations, so I thought it would be useful to review the CAN SPAM laws. You will note in this post that, contrary to popular belief, ‘opt-in’ is surprisingly not a legal requirement. Offering additional impetus for the timeliness
