Turscar Isle

• steve
• Aug 28, 2026

• Best Practices

Have you ever wanted to sneak in to a cult of spammers and rob them blind?

Interview with Stripo - extended thoughts

• laura
• Jul 28, 2026

• Industry

While I was in Vienna at the IETF meeting last week, Stripo published an interview I did with them earlier this summer.

My interview with Stripo

• laura
• Jul 28, 2026

BIMI Certificates and Domains

• steve
• May 29, 2026

• Technical

BIMI is the protocol that gives you little images and blue checkmarks alongside your message in the inboxes of some mail clients.

The new DMARC is here

• steve
• May 20, 2026

• Technical

DMARCbis the new DMARC is finally here.

• RFC 9989 - Domain-Based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC)
• RFC 9990 - Domain-Based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) Aggregate Reporting
• RFC 9991 - Domain-Based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) Failure Reporting

It’s not DMARCbis any more, it’s just DMARC.

DKIM2, Asynchronous Bounces and VERP

• steve
• Apr 27, 2026

• Technical

This is just expanding on some of the points Laura made last week.

DKIM2: What it means for the future of email

• laura
• Apr 23, 2026

• Technical , Industry

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• What is it?
• OK, but really, what is it?
• OK. Why?
• Current Status
• ESPs Take Note
• Next Steps
• Conclusion

Introduction

After years of stagnation in email authentication protocol development we have a new player entering town. The protocol is DKIM2 and it’s in active development over at the IETF. If you want to see the sausage being made, you can visit the IETF datatracker to see the details and sign up for the mailing list.

The spam folder and opens

• laura
• Apr 9, 2026

• Industry

There’s a post getting a lot of traction in my LinkedIn feed from someone spreading misinformation about open rates. A bunch of deliverability colleagues have weighed in and pointed out some of the mistakes, but there’s one very big mis-statement I haven’t seen anyone correct. [1]

SPF ?all

• steve
• Mar 20, 2026

• Technical

I was updating my SPF library and discovered that the example code snippets didn’t work any more, as at some point in 2024 AOL switched their SPF record from “(lots of stuff]) ~all” to “(lots of stuff) ?all”. Nothing particularly surprising, folks change their setups occasionally. I updated the example code to expect a neutral response rather than softfail and all the tests pass.

Upcoming webinar on Gmail and inbox signals

• laura
• Mar 13, 2026

• Best Practices

I’m thrilled to announce I’m sitting down at the beginning of April to talk about inboxing in 2026.