Email Fundamentals: What is an Open Relay?

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Learn about open relays and how to verify that your Exchange Server is not one of them.

What Are You Telling Customers About the Epsilon Data Breach?

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The Epsilon data breach that compromised tens of millions of email addresses has been the big news of the email world lately. What are you telling your customers to expect?

Email Spam and How Marketers Think You’re Stupid

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Some marketers hate the idea that they need permission to enter your inbox. They don’t say it in so many words. They talk about “implied permission”, and their responsibility as marketers to anticipate consumer wants and deliver relevant emails to them. And they think thats what consumers want from them.

iPad Scam: Beware of the Beta Testing Inc Spam Address Harvester

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A contact of mine just fell victim to a spammer’s email address harvester. The premise of the scam is this – you get sent an iPad review unit for 2 months, after which you are free to keep it.

Some Recent Articles

Here are some of the blog posts I’ve written for other sites in the the last few weeks.

Spamhaus RBL Changes

The Microsoft Forefront Server Security Support Blog points out that Spamhaus has recently phased out some of their RBLs. It’s come to our attention recently that Spamhaus has phased out the old SBL-XBL list, which has now been replaced by the ZEN list (named after a guard dog). If you’ve got Spamhaus configured in your [...]