Tag: spf

Email Identity Protection and LuxSci Email Hosting

March 9, 2015

We have just completed a long series of articles discussing how attackers forge email messages and what technologies and techniques can be used to counter these attacks.  See: Email Identity and Forged Email. In this post, we will discuss some best practices when using LuxSci to maximize your protection against forged email messages.

8 Ways to Protect yourself from Forged/Fake Email

January 26, 2015

The Internet is rife with fake and forged email.  Typically these are email messages that appear to be from a friend, relative, business acquaintance, or vendor that ask you to do something.  If you trust that the message is really from this person, you are much more likely to take whatever action is requested — […]

Maximizing Delivery Speed and Reliability for Large Scale Email Marketing

September 8, 2014

Many customers want to send millions of marketing messages within a short timeframe without getting blocked by recipient ISPs to maximize the number of recipients and the conversion rates on these messages. This is a common scenario that we see, often from customers who have been using another costly provider, where delivery is sluggish or […]

Understanding Domain Name Service (DNS)

October 11, 2013

DNS (Domain Name Service) is as fundamental to email and web services as address books and published street addresses and phone numbers are to other types of communications.  Without them, it is difficult to connect with new people and organizations and it is even inconvenient to communicate with your friends and family. In this article, […]

Bounce Back & Backscatter Spam: Who Stole My Email Address?

September 24, 2013

So, you’re minding your own business, going about your daily tasks, checking your email, and suddenly your INBOX is flooded with a series of non-delivery reports (aka NDRs or bounce messages). But wait just a minute, you didn’t send these. How did this happen? Did someone steal your email address?  How is that possible? What […]