Last week, SendGrid’s email experts Elmer Thomas and Carly Brantz broke down some tips and tricks to make sure your emails don’t get banished to the spam folder. There were so many great questions during the webinar that we weren’t able to get to. In an effort to keep the conversation going, Carly and Elmer took some time to respond to these questions here. If you missed the webinar, you can access a recording here. Related PostsWebinar: Q&A with Ken and Carly Customer Success Story: Extole “Likes” SendGrid’s Deliverablity Expertise and ISP Mediation Solutions Customer Success Story: Online Music Promotion…
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The Websense 2012 Threat Report issued by Websense releases an annual report that looks at trends in web, email, data and mobile security. The 2012 report revealed some interesting findings that developers should be wary of as they build and secure their applications. At the forefront of this report is transactional email. A somewhat obvious yet chilling stat is that 92% of email spam contains a URL. Given that most transactional email contains a link to a web page, this is a high risk category that needs to be carefully monitored at its source. Related PostsSendGrid Delivered hits NYC September…
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SendGrid’s email experts Carly Brantz and Paul Kincaid-Smith hosted a webinar last week offering tips on how to improve your sender reputation. We received so many great questions that we weren’t able to get to them all. Carly and Paul wanted to continue the conversation on the SendGrid blog and address some questions they didn’t have time to answer last week. If you missed the webinar, you can access a recording here. How do outlook users complain that a message is spam? PKS: They complain through the junk email reporting tool plugin that works to improve the Microsoft Outlook spam filter. They…
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Staying out of the spam folder is tougher than you might think. Over 20% of legitimate email never makes it to the inbox. Customers quickly become frustrated when they don’t receive important messages like password resets, purchase confirmations and shipping notifications. Join email experts Carly Brantz and Elmer Thomas on May 29th at 1:00 PM EDT as they break down ways to make sure your email stays out of the spam folder. This webinar will cover: Related PostsHow to Keep Your Password Reset Emails Out of the Spam Folder Make Email Delivery Simple and Easy Using SendGrid [Video] Customer Success Story: Pinterest…
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Email authentication allows ISPs to properly identify the sender of the email so it can make smarter decisions about the delivery of your mail. Authentication has become a best practice for email senders since spammers have gotten really smart about disguising malicious email under the veil of a trusted brand. By pretending to send email from your domain, a practice known as phishing, spammers are tricking your customers into giving out their passwords, account information and other personally identifiable information for their own financial gain. In today’s world, email authentication is a “must do” for legitimate organizations in order to…
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