In this episode, email deliverability expert Matt Vernhout joins the podcast to discuss essential insights into the current state of email delivery. Matt emphasizes the importance of looking at campaign...
In this episode, we welcome George Schlossnagle, a mathematician turned tech entrepreneur, who shares his fascinating journey from academia to co-founding one of the world’s leading email infrastructure platforms. George...
Email should just work. And when it does, most people don’t think about the machinery behind it. But for web hosting providers, that simple “send” button is anything but simple....
In this episode, we talk with email deliverability expert, Udeme. Udeme, who has worked with major players like Yahoo and LinkedIn, shares his experience in the email industry, offering valuable...
In the competitive landscape of web hosting, providers are constantly seeking avenues to differentiate their offerings and enhance revenue streams. While email may seem like a basic utility, it presents...
Email blacklists. The very phrase can send shivers down the spine of any business or individual relying on email communication. They’re a critical factor in deliverability, and understanding how they...
For startups, rapid growth is the dream. But as your user base expands and email volume surges, your email infrastructure can quickly become a bottleneck. Sending transactional emails, onboarding new...
At MailChannels, our mission is to empower safer connections in an open world. We have been committed to supporting internet email as a truly open protocol since 2012. In early...
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Domain owners publish SPF information in the Domain Name System (DNS) - a globe-spanning database of internet information - in something called an SPF record. Boiled down, an SPF record specifies in computer-readable form a set of rules that email receivers can use to verify that an email sent from your domain originated from a server that is authorized to send on behalf of your domain.
On February 11th, Spamhaus reminded its users that they would start to block queries sent from public Domain Name System (DNS) resolvers beginning on March 1st
One of the best tools in our cost-saving arsenal is a technology offered by AWS called Spot Instances.
Join us as we delve into the inspiring journey of Konrad Keck, founder of Modules Garden, and his entrepreneurial path in the web hosting industry. In this episode, we explore...
On April 22, 2024, at 05:30 UTC, our monitoring systems alerted us that SMTP connection times had spiked from the normal sub-1 second to over 7 seconds. This was the...
MailChannels is excited to announce that we have implemented DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) on the primary domain associated with our email delivery service, mailchannels.net. This milestone is a...
Domain Lockdown empowers you to prevent unauthorized MailChannels users and accounts from sending emails from your domain.
We've developed a new API that allows you to easily search through your email logs and find exactly what you're looking for.
Email security and deliverability are critical concerns for web hosts, businesses, and email service providers. With increasing spam and phishing attacks, email providers need advanced filtering solutions that go beyond...
Getting Onto a Blacklist Without Sending Any Spam
MailChannels CEO Ken Simpson discusses how outbound spam affects cloud hosting providers and recommends how they can help to stop it to recover costs.
IP Blacklisting: A Persistent Problem for Hosting Providers in 2025 Even in 2025, IP blacklisting remains one of the most common—and costly—issues facing web hosting providers. Every day, hosting companies...
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom emerged as the unlikely poster child for remote communication, riding a wave of global lockdowns and remote work mandates. But what...
In 2020, COVID-19 disrupted nearly every aspect of life, including the world of email. At the time, MailChannels observed a sharp increase in global email traffic—especially transactional and outbound messages—as...
In early 2023, a significant privacy lapse was discovered within Uber’s platform: sensitive user and trip data had been indexed by Google, exposing customer names, pick-up/drop-off coordinates, and driver details...
What bounce codes reveal about your email delivery—and how to interpret them. When your email fails to deliver, the server doesn’t just reject it—it tells you why. That reason is...
Introduction Spam filtering is a critical defense against outbound abuse, phishing, and account compromise. But under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), any operation involving personal data must have a...
MailChannels is excited to announce that we have implemented DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) on the primary domain associated with our email delivery service, mailchannels.net.
We've developed a new API that allows you to easily search through your email logs and find exactly what you're looking for. This new feature is available to all customers, free of charge.
The new service enables Cloudflare developers to send email messages from within their Workers apps, with no authentication or domain verification required.
Each month you’ll receive a summary of the email we processed for you at MailChannels, including: Processed, Delivered, Blocked, Compromised Accounts, and more.
MailChannels is pleased to announce the release of cPanel® & WHM® plugin version 3.0 to help hosting providers provision and manage filtering of inbound and outbound email through MailChannels cloud services.
MailChannels Inbound Filtering is a new cloud service that detects and blocks spam, phishing, and malware before it hits the customer’s inbox.
Did you know that you can see all activity for individual users in Sender Profiles?
In the world of SaaS, where customer experience reigns supreme, transactional emails are the unsung heroes working tirelessly behind the scenes. These automated emails, triggered by specific user actions or...
Emails are vital for modern businesses to connect with customers, send critical updates, and drive conversions. Yet, ensuring these emails successfully reach the inbox can sometimes feel like navigating a...
Transactional email stands as a vital touchstone between businesses and their customers. Unlike promotional emails, which cast a wide net to catch as many leads as possible, transactional emails are...
Rebel.com Cuts Support Tickets Related to Email Delivery by 90% with MailChannels
Looking back, here are some of the platform improvements that were made during this extraordinary year.
Upcoming web hosting events in 2021
Palinurus converts Kubernetes resource files to helm charts automatically, eliminating a manual, error-prone step on the road from service definition to reliable deployment.
To maintain an excellent email reputation, MailChannels works hard to block spam and phishing attacks from the more than 26 million unique senders whose email we process each month.
Spammers compromise hosting and email accounts by stealing passwords and leveraging exploits in hosting systems. Once an account is compromised, the spammer sends email through the account, leveraging whatever positive...
This episode features an engaging discussion with Nicolas Toper, a seasoned entrepreneur known for founding Crit Send and later Inbox Booster. Nicolas delves into his unique educational journey at the...
In this episode, Lukas Hertig, a seasoned expert in the web hosting industry, shares his journey and insights. Discover the evolution of cloud hosting, the incredible rise of Amazon Web...
In this episode of the podcast, Ben Gabler, CEO and founder of Rocket.net, shares his journey from delivering pizzas to pioneering in the web hosting industry. With over two decades...
With the new Monthly Usage Report, it’s easy to access your important MailChannels insights.
Today, MailChannels is launching a free email sending service for Cloudflare Workers. The new service enables Cloudflare developers to send email messages from within their Workers apps, with no authentication or domain verification required.
Find out what's new for the MailChannels Host Console.
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Read updated post here Have you ever tried sending an email to someone at AOL, only to receive a baffling error message that reads “554 (RTR:BL)”? You’re not alone. This...
As millions of employees around the world have suddenly been forced to work from home, video conferencing services have experienced an unprecedented...
MailChannels delivers email for hundreds of web hosting providers. When your web site needs to send out a password reset, or if you send a message from...
Introduction Filtering outbound email is essential for stopping spam, phishing, and abuse. But if your filtering practices inspect message content or metadata, are you violating your users’ privacy? In a...
In shared hosting environments, one bad sender can ruin it for everyone. A single compromised account sending spam can lead to blacklisted IPs, delivery failures, and angry customers wondering why...
Introduction With the rise in outbound spam filtering and automated abuse detection, email service providers (ESPs) and web hosts face a critical question: How does GDPR apply to email processing—especially...
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