Guide · · 3 min read

How to test email deliverability before you send the campaign

A pre-send routine that takes about ten minutes and catches the failures that are expensive to discover afterwards — with what each step can and cannot tell you.

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Guide · · 4 min read

Your sending IP is on a blacklist. Here is the order to fix it in

Not every blocklist matters, and requesting delisting before fixing the cause is how an IP gets listed again the same week. What to do, in order.

BlacklistReputationDeliverability Read →
Checklist · · 3 min read

The bulk sender checklist: what large mailbox providers now require

Authentication, one-click unsubscribe and a spam-complaint ceiling are no longer best practice — they are entry requirements. Here is the checklist, and how to verify each line.

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Guide · · 4 min read

Rolling out DMARC from p=none to p=reject without losing mail

The staged plan, what to look for in the reports at each stage, and the two mistakes that cause the horror stories people tell about DMARC.

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Guide · · 5 min read

Why your emails go to spam: the causes we actually see

Ranked by how often it is the real problem, not by how interesting it is to write about. Most messages that land in spam are failing one of the first four things on this list.

DeliverabilitySpamAuthentication Read →

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