Starting Friday 24th November this year, it appears that Microsoft had been experiencing issues in relation with one of the most important day of the year in terms of sales for retailers. It seems that Microsoft infrastructure has been struggling to cope with the high inbound traffic which was being received from retailers on Black… Read More: Microsoft having trouble handling Black Friday surge »
Every time a message is received at Microsoft side, it is going through their spam filtering system which gives it a spam score. The related spam score will then be assigned an individual Spam Confidence Level (SCL) rating which is then included as an X-header to the related email header. Microsoft automated systems will then… Read More: Microsoft SCL »
Microsoft has recently revealed that it now uses Certified Senders Alliance (CSA) to get more information when they need additional data regarding a questionable sender which generated complaints from their users but not enough to be categorized as bad. Here are the cases where Microsoft uses CSA data: a) We regularly see spam complaints from… Read More: How Microsoft uses Certified Senders Alliance »
After Orange UK announcing closure of its e-mail service as of 31st May this year, Terra Brazil has announced recently that it will discontinue its free email service from 30th June 2017. Terra recommends users of its free email service to backup their e-mails and files along with notifying their contacts prior to the service… Read More: Terra Brazil to discontinue free email service »
While using an ESP to send out your e-communications, there are two options in regards to the IP setup for your account. 1. Shared IP Benefits A shared IP address will be particularly useful in regards to maintaining sending reputation if you are sending very low volumes or low frequency. (E.g. you are sending only monthly… Read More: Shared IP vs Dedicated IP »
After acquiring Orange UK, EE has decided to close email service hosted by the ISP. While other actors of in the field of free webmails are offering continuous improvements in terms of features and user experience, Orange has not updated its webmail service since 2012 and pushes users of its free webmail service to choose… Read More: Orange UK closing down email service »