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Greatmail Officially Launches SMTP Hosting Service

Following eight successful months in beta, Greatmail’s MxGrid SMTP service is now fully integrated into the company’s service line and renamed simply ‘SMTP Hosting’. The SMTP offering includes support for sender authentication technologies including DKIM signing and SPF validation, feedback loop management, … Continue reading

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Best Practices for Bulk Email Senders

Whether you’re using a third party application or building your own bulk email system, there are a few critical list management tasks your mailer should be able to handle.  These best practices will help you maintain a favorable SMTP IP reputation and ensure the best delivery rates possible for your campaigns. … Continue reading

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Greatmail Develops MxGrid SMTP Service

Greatmail now offers an easy to use SMTP service, MxGrid, for high volume email applications. MxGrid eliminates the need to set up a domain for high volume sending and seamlessly adds DKIM signing and SPF authentication to all outbound messages. MxGrid is a … Continue reading

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Sender Authentication with DKIM and SPF

Sender authentication technologies like DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) and Sender Policy Framework (SPF) not only help control spam but also improve deliverability of legitimate messages. Consequently, these systems are of interest to both email administrators and email marketers. What is sender authentication? In … Continue reading

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Free Email Hosting for Non-Profits

Greatmail LLC offers free basic email hosting for non-profit organizations and qualifying small businesses. In order to be eligible for free email hosting, non-profit organizations must meet the following three requirements: 1) Must have a registered top level domain, 2) … Continue reading

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When Do You Need An Email Consultant?

Do you have questions about your company’s email and want guidance in selecting and/or maintaining an email solution for your business? If so, you may want to consider hiring an email consultant to analyze your company’s email requirements and recommend … Continue reading

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Using Twitter in Microsoft Outlook

As social networking sites gain momentum, the question arises how to integrate content and information from sites like Twitter into popular client side communication tools like Microsoft Outlook. Fortunately, with third party Outlook add-in applications like TwInbox (formerly known as … Continue reading

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Sending Bulk Email

You’ve recently moved your email to an email hosting provider. The incoming spam is finally under control and your users have all transitioned to the new server without issue. Then you get the call from your new email provider. A … Continue reading

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BES/Exchange vs. POP3/IMAP Blackberry

Clients often ask about BES and synchronization of calendars and contacts between Outlook and Blackberry. One of the major issues is specifically how to synchronize calendars and contacts data between the desktop and wireless device. There are presently 2 ways … Continue reading

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Protecting Your Email Address from Spambots

What is a spambot? Spambots are address harvesting robots that scrape the internet looking for email addresses to build mailing lists. Common places for spambots to collect email addresses include forums, guestbooks, blogs, contact forms and other web pages that … Continue reading

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