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High Volume Bulk Email: Key Ingredients for Good Deliverability

zmiller@luxsci.com — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:08:30 +0000

How do you ensure your messages make it into your recipients’ INBOXes?

Deliverability is key to anyone sending newsletters, announcements, notifications, or any other type of bulk email. As a provider of premium and bulk email services, we>> read the complete answer

Feedback Loops: Monitor your bulk email reputation

Erik Kangas — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:05:50 +0000

Many major Internet Service Providers (e.g. AOL, Hotmail, MSN, Comcast, etc.) have FBLs “feedback loops” for reporting SPAM complaints by their users. I.e. if a user “marks a message as Spam”, information about that message and the fact that it>> read the complete answer

Web Form Spam – Block Spam without a Captcha Code

Erik Kangas — Fri, 20 May 2011 20:35:27 +0000

Many web site forms and comment forms are plagued by “web form spam”. Automated programs crawl the Internet looking for web forms. When found, they start submitting spam advertisements through the forms in the hopes that some of the>> read the complete answer

Text Messages are Faster than Email, but not Instantaneous!

Erik Kangas — Wed, 04 May 2011 21:00:55 +0000

We have discussed how email messages should not be expected to arrive instantly. This naturally brings to mind “text messages” (aka SMS messages) that people send to their cell phones. These are commonly expected to be delivered “instantly”>> read the complete answer

Better Forged Email Filtering with Improved SPF Support

Erik Kangas — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:08:00 +0000

It is an extremely common and annoying practice of spammers to send you email that is from yourself or your colleagues or friends. I.e. “forged email”. We discuss this problem in the article: Save Yourself From “Yourself”: Stop Spam>> read the complete answer

Protecting Yourself from Email “Web Bugs”

Erik Kangas — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:50:26 +0000

Web Bugs are images in HTML-formatted email messages that, when viewed, tell the sender of the message that you read the message. This mechanism of obtaining an essentially covert confirmation that (a) your email address is valid, (b) the email>> read the complete answer

Updated: Quarantine Reports for Basic Spam and Virus Filtering

Erik Kangas — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:56:58 +0000

LuxSci has updated the optional Quarantine Reports that are sent to users of its Basic Spam and Virus Filtering service. These reports, once enabled, send users a daily email listing any new Spam and/or Virus messages caught by>> read the complete answer

Understanding Email Services: What are they and what do you need?

Erik Kangas — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:12:52 +0000

You thought email was a simple concept, but you are at once confronted with a plethora of acronyms and jargon like POP, IMAP, WebMail, Aliases, Forwards, SMTP, IMAP, POP, Quota, SPAM, TLS, SSL, Archival, and more! This article describes the>> read the complete answer

Mitigating Threats To Your Email Security and Privacy

Erik Kangas — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:19:41 +0000

Email security issues and technologies are extremely complicated; however, here we intend to make the salient issues and solutions clearly understandable to all readers.

You may already know that email is not a perfectly secure communication medium; however, it might>> read the complete answer

Why LuxSci’s Premium Email Servers are Not on Blacklists

Erik Kangas — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:40:01 +0000

LuxSci is serious about the quick and efficient delivery of all email sent by our clients. We take extra steps to ensure that our servers sending outbound email are not blacklisted. Indeed, while it is impossible to never get on>> read the complete answer