Engineering
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At MailChannels, we evolve our defenses constantly to stay ahead of email abuse. One of our most effective recent advances, the Dual-Layer Domain and Sender Reputation Policy, has quietly become …
Read post: How MailChannels’ Dual-Layer Reputation Defeats the Account-Rotation Exploit
Engineering
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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 …
Read post: Does MailChannels Use Machine Learning, Content-Based Scanning, or Behavior-Based Rules?
Engineering
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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.
Read post: How Sender Policy Framework (SPF) improves your email deliverability
Engineering
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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
Read post: Upcoming change from Spamhaus will make March 1st a difficult day for some
Engineering
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One of the best tools in our cost-saving arsenal is a technology offered by AWS called Spot Instances.
Read post: How To Save Money Without Sacrificing On Reliability When Using AWS Spot InstancesEngineering
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Palinurus converts Kubernetes resource files to helm charts automatically, eliminating a manual, error-prone step on the road from service definition to reliable deployment.
Read post: Palinurus – A Helm chart conversion tool
Engineering
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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.
Read post: MailChannels Rolls Out Improved Spam Detection EngineEngineering
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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 …
Read post: Response Analytics™ – MailChannels’ powerful AI technology
Engineering
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Transport Layer Security (TLS) is an encryption protocol that ensures the privacy of SMTP traffic exchanged between mail servers.
Read post: Using Transport Layer Security (TLS) With a Transparent SMTP Proxy
Engineering
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Greylisting – a common anti-spam technique – presents a serious challenge for large email delivery services. Find out how we tackled greylisting.
Read post: Tackling Greylisting In MailChannels CloudSubscribe to the MailChannels Blog to receive new blog posts in your inbox.