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Podcast

From Yahoo to LinkedIn: The Evolution of Email Deliverability

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...

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Best Practices

Monetising Email as a Value-Added Service: A Web Host's Guide to Revenue Generation

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...

Monitoring And Analyzing Your Transactional Emails To Ensure Efficiency And Engagement

Best Practices

Decoding Email Blacklists: What They Are and How to Avoid Them

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...

Best Practices

Monetising Email as a Value-Added Service: A Web Host's Guide to Revenue Generation

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...

Best Practices

Decoding Email Blacklists: What They Are and How to Avoid Them

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...

Best Practices

Scaling Your Startup: How to Ensure Your Email Infrastructure Can Keep Up with Growth

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...

Corporate

Important Update: MailChannels' Email Sending API for Cloudflare Workers to be Terminated

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...

Corporate

Join MailChannels at CloudFest 2022

Join MailChannels at Cloudfest 2022 with our free registration link.

Corporate

Customer Success Story - Rebel.com

Rebel.com Cuts Support Tickets Related to Email Delivery by 90% with MailChannels

Engineering

How Sender Policy Framework (SPF) improves your email deliverability

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.

Engineering

Upcoming change from Spamhaus will make March 1st a difficult day for some

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

Engineering

How To Save Money Without Sacrificing On Reliability When Using AWS Spot Instances

One of the best tools in our cost-saving arsenal is a technology offered by AWS called Spot Instances.

Podcast

From Yahoo to LinkedIn: The Evolution of Email Deliverability

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...

Podcast

Pioneering the Future of Web Hosting with Konrad Keck

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...

Podcast

Email's Untapped Potential: Nicolas Toper on What's Next

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...

Post Mortem

MailChannels Service Disruption: All The Gory Details

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...

Product

MailChannels Enhances Email Security with DNSSEC Implementation

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...

Product

Bolstering Your Email Security: Introducing Domain Lockdown™

Domain Lockdown empowers you to prevent unauthorized MailChannels users and accounts from sending emails from your domain.

Product

Announcing Log Search API

We've developed a new API that allows you to easily search through your email logs and find exactly what you're looking for.

Technical

Does MailChannels Use Machine Learning, Content-Based Scanning, or Behavior-Based Rules?

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...

Does MailChannels Use Machine Learning, Content Based Scanning, Or Behavior Based Rules

Technical

Getting Onto a Blocklist Without Sending Any Spam

Getting Onto a Blacklist Without Sending Any Spam

Technical

How Outbound Spam Affects Cloud Hosting Providers

MailChannels CEO Ken Simpson discusses how outbound spam affects cloud hosting providers and recommends how they can help to stop it to recover costs.

Trends

Email traffic analysis shows how Zoom is exploding in popularity

As millions of employees around the world have suddenly been forced to work from home, video conferencing services have experienced an unprecedented...

Trends

How is COVID-19 affecting global email traffic?

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...

Trends

Uber leaks trip data and personal info via a simple Google search

Fetching this Google search URL provides a listing of random Uber trips that were somehow indexed by the search giant's spider...

Uncategorized

Understanding API Authentication: Securing Your Transactional Emails

The security of communication channels is paramount. Among these, email remains a crucial pillar for business operations, particularly in the transactional realm where each email carries significant value—be it a...

Uncategorized

Monitoring and Analyzing Your Transactional Emails to Ensure Efficiency and Engagement

In the realm of transactional email API services, the importance of monitoring and analyzing your transactional emails cannot be overstated. For developers and businesses alike, understanding the flow and impact...

Uncategorized

Solving AOL's Dreaded "554 (RTR:BL)" Email Rejection Error

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 common error code is...