Posts Tagged ‘MTA’

Nice to meet your email program: 10 things to tell your new ESP immediately

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When joining a new ESP, building a relationship and understanding with your email vendor is one of the most important steps. You can quickly move forward in implementation of the email marketing software and towards email marketing success. Make sure you inform your ESP and tick all the boxes with our list of 10 things [...]

Knock, knock. Who’s there? Email Authentication; the key to deliverability

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An average of 106 billion spam messages go out daily and a further 188 billion email messages are sent. Getting your email into the inbox, when ISPs like Hotmail and Gmail are trying to keep junk out is becoming increasingly difficult. We can no longer just send email, we need to focus on delivering email. And [...]

SMTP.com gets new datacenter, ditches Rackspace

SMTP.com a provider of email relay and email delivery services has shifted its infrastructure strategy. Previously they contracted managed servers at multiple hosting providers such as Rackspace and SoftLayer, that is over. Now SMTP.com has opened its own, new datacenter.

The implication of Amazon SES a new Bulk Email Service

Amazon Web Services has announced a new email deliverability product, called Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES). It might be worth your time to consider if you who don’t want to maintain a in-house email server, but would like to use a scalable client to deliver your emails.

Port25

Port25 is a provider of email infrastructure software that helps enterprises and ESPs with their delivery and customer communications.

Mail transfer Agent (MTA)

A mail transfer agent or mail relay is software that transfers e-mail messages from one computer to another. An MTA is responsible for the core tasks involved with delivering of e-mail, including: queuing, scheduling, connection management, data transfer, processing of deferrals, bounce generation, and tracking of delivery status.