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Group Mailboxes vs Distribution Lists: Which Does Your Team Actually Need?
Email Hosting
07 Jul 2026Sam wallness

Group Mailboxes vs Distribution Lists: Which Does Your Team Actually Need?

Group mailboxes and distribution lists both route email to multiple people — but they work very differently. The choice affects accountability, reply behavior, and compliance. Here's how to decide which one your team needs.

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Dedicated IP vs Shared IP for Email Sending: How to Choose
SMTP & Infrastructure
07 Jul 2026Sam wallness

Dedicated IP vs Shared IP for Email Sending: How to Choose

Dedicated IPs give you full control over your sending reputation, but shared IPs can outperform them for senders without the volume to maintain one. Here's how to decide which setup is right for your email program.

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Domain Reputation Management: How to Monitor and Protect Your Sending Domain
DNS & Domains
07 Jul 2026Sam wallness

Domain Reputation Management: How to Monitor and Protect Your Sending Domain

Domain reputation determines whether your email reaches the inbox or disappears — and it can erode quietly before you notice. Here's how to monitor your sending domain's health and protect it before problems develop.

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Email Webhooks Explained: How to Track Delivery Events in Real Time
SMTP & Infrastructure
07 Jul 2026Sam wallness

Email Webhooks Explained: How to Track Delivery Events in Real Time

Email webhooks give your systems real-time visibility into deliveries, bounces, complaints, and unsubscribes — without polling. Here's how they work, how to build a reliable endpoint, and what to do with each event type.

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How to Choose the Right VPS for a Self-Hosted Email Server
Email Hosting
07 Jul 2026Sam wallness

How to Choose the Right VPS for a Self-Hosted Email Server

Not all VPS providers are suitable for self-hosted email. IP reputation, PTR record support, and hardware specs all matter differently for email than for web hosting. Here's what to check before you provision anything.

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Email Operations KPIs: The Metrics Your Team Should Track Every Month
Email Operations
07 Jul 2026Sam wallness

Email Operations KPIs: The Metrics Your Team Should Track Every Month

Email infrastructure problems often degrade gradually — rising bounces, slow delivery, declining inbox placement — without triggering obvious alerts. These are the KPIs your team should track monthly to catch issues early.

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Backup MX Records: Do You Still Need a Secondary Mail Exchanger in 2026?
DNS & Domains
07 Jul 2026Sam wallness

Backup MX Records: Do You Still Need a Secondary Mail Exchanger in 2026?

Backup MX records made sense when self-hosted servers had real downtime risk. In 2026, the calculus has changed — cloud email infrastructure handles redundancy internally, and a misconfigured backup MX can introduce new spam vulnerabilities.

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Business Email Hosting vs Free Email: Why the Provider You Choose Defines Your Professional Identity
Email Hosting
07 Jul 2026Sam wallness

Business Email Hosting vs Free Email: Why the Provider You Choose Defines Your Professional Identity

Choosing between business email hosting and a free provider shapes your deliverability, credibility, and administrative control. Here's what separates them — and why the right decision from day one saves significant headaches later.

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Email Archiving Best Practices: How to Store, Search, and Retrieve Business Email
Email Operations
07 Jul 2026Sam wallness

Email Archiving Best Practices: How to Store, Search, and Retrieve Business Email

Email archiving isn't the same as backup. A proper archive captures messages at the transport layer, stores them with integrity verification, and makes them searchable for compliance and legal holds. Here's how to build the right strategy.

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