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MTA-STS and TLS-RPT: Enforcing Encrypted Email Delivery for Your Domain
Email Authentication
07 Jul 2026Sam wallness

MTA-STS and TLS-RPT: Enforcing Encrypted Email Delivery for Your Domain

MTA-STS lets you declare that email delivered to your domain must use TLS, preventing downgrade attacks that strip encryption in transit. TLS-RPT gives you the reporting visibility to know when it's working — and when it isn't.

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Suppression Lists: How to Manage Undeliverable Addresses at Scale
SMTP & Infrastructure
07 Jul 2026Sam wallness

Suppression Lists: How to Manage Undeliverable Addresses at Scale

A suppression list is the foundation of responsible sending — it ensures that unsubscribes, hard bounces, and spam complainants never receive another email. Here's how to build one that works across all your sending channels.

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Common DNS Configuration Errors That Break Email Delivery
DNS & Domains
07 Jul 2026Sam wallness

Common DNS Configuration Errors That Break Email Delivery

DNS configuration errors are behind most email delivery failures. From broken MX records to SPF lookup overflows and DKIM key mismatches, here are the mistakes that show up most often and exactly how to diagnose and fix them.

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Cold Email Infrastructure: How to Build a Sending Setup That Won't Get Burned
Cold Email
07 Jul 2026Sam wallness

Cold Email Infrastructure: How to Build a Sending Setup That Won't Get Burned

Cold email requires dedicated sending infrastructure to protect your primary domain reputation. Here's how to set up separate domains, dedicated IPs, authentication, and sending volumes that keep cold campaigns delivering without burning through your setup.

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How Gmail's Spam Filtering Really Works (and What It Means for Your Emails)
Deliverability
07 Jul 2026Sam wallness

How Gmail's Spam Filtering Really Works (and What It Means for Your Emails)

Gmail's spam filters are more sophisticated than most senders realize. Here's a breakdown of how they evaluate incoming mail — from machine learning signals to engagement data — and what you can do to stay on the right side of them.

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IMAP vs POP3 in 2026: Which Protocol Should Your Business Use?
Email Clients
07 Jul 2026Sam wallness

IMAP vs POP3 in 2026: Which Protocol Should Your Business Use?

IMAP keeps email synced across all your devices while POP3 downloads and removes it from the server. In 2026, here's which protocol your business should be using and why the choice matters more than you'd think.

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Shared vs Dedicated Email Hosting: Which Setup Fits Your Business?
Email Hosting
07 Jul 2026Sam wallness

Shared vs Dedicated Email Hosting: Which Setup Fits Your Business?

Shared email hosting is affordable and easy, but dedicated hosting gives you isolated IP reputation and full control. Here's how to decide which setup actually fits your business's sending needs.

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SMTP Ports Explained: 25, 465, 587, and 2525 and When to Use Each
SMTP & Infrastructure
07 Jul 2026Sam wallness

SMTP Ports Explained: 25, 465, 587, and 2525 and When to Use Each

SMTP ports 25, 465, 587, and 2525 all do different things — and using the wrong one is a surprisingly common cause of email delivery failures. Here's exactly what each port is for and which one your setup should be using.

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Email Volume Ramp-Up: How to Scale Sending Without Burning Your Domain
Deliverability
07 Jul 2026Sam wallness

Email Volume Ramp-Up: How to Scale Sending Without Burning Your Domain

Sending too much email too fast is one of the fastest ways to ruin a new sending domain's reputation. Here's how to ramp up your email volume the right way — with a practical schedule and the warning signs to watch for.

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