Category: LuxSci Library: The Technical Side of Email

Are Cloud Servers Bad for Sending Email?

July 27, 2021

Public cloud servers are great for many things; however, sending email is not one of them. Why Cloud Servers are Bad for Sending Email? The main issue with public cloud based services is that you are sharing resources with their other customers. This includes IP addresses. Most organizations try to filter out bad IPs, but […]

Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail and More: How to View Headers in Email

February 16, 2021

If you are having problems with message delivery, one of the first troubleshooting steps is to view the email headers. You can do this by viewing the message source. We will explain the basics, then teach you how to view headers in email for the most popular clients. These include Gmail, Apple Mail, Yahoo! Mail, […]

Protecting Yourself from Email Web Beacons

July 7, 2020

Web Beacons (a.k.a Tracking Pixels) are images in HTML-formatted email messages that, when viewed, tell the sender of the message that you read it.  This mechanism of obtaining essentially covert confirmation that (a) your email address is valid, (b) the email got past your filters, and (c) you actually read the message, is pervasively used […]

Enterprise-Grade High Volume Secure Email Sending API

February 4, 2020

LuxSci has released an enhancement to its REST API targeted at fast, reliable, large-scale email sending. While LuxSci’s API has had features for secure email sending for many years, the new API call is specifically designed with the needs of enterprise email sending in mind. The new “Send Email” High Volume API call enables: Pipelining: […]

Ask Erik: Is this email fake? How can I tell?

December 28, 2017

In a recent “Ask Erik” question, Eve asked: “I received a copy of an email that someone claims they sent to me. They did not forward this apparent email they claim they sent to me. Rather they copied and pasted it into a current email. However, I did not receive this email, and in all […]