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If you’re building a browser-based application that needs to use a third-party API, chances are that you have encountered the ‘access-control-allow-origin’ error message: Access to XMLHttpRequest at ‘https://api.example.com/’ from origin ‘https://customerexample.com’ has been blocked by CORS policy: No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource. What Does The ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ Error Message Mean? What does […]

What is a Spam Filter and How Does it Work? Now, more than ever, spam filters are an increasingly present part of the email delivery process. Spam filters are smarter and more robust than ever before. Unfortunately, much of the information circulating about what spam filters are and how they work isn’t always accurate.  You […]

Is it possible that a company’s email deliverability can be impacted by a simple typo? The short answer is yes — if you get caught in a typo spam trap. Before you say “that sounds ridiculous,” let’s take a very short trip down memory lane. How many of you remember the collapse of Amazon Web […]

What is a Smart Host? In today’s highly technical email industry, it has become increasingly difficult for even personal email senders to get their mail successfully to the inbox.  Complications with things like your IP address, send volume, or email infrastructure can have damaging effects on your day-to-day business. Whatever the problem, email service providers […]

What is Email Throttling? If you were the youngest of your family, you have likely mastered the art of antagonizing your older siblings – walking the fine line of being annoying and being an all out menace. Too much antagonizing and your siblings strike back, but if you’re smart, and walk that fine line, you […]

Today we’re going to talk about SMTP Monitoring — specifically monitoring your message failures. And this is important: SMTP is the standard for sending email and it’s one of the most effective ways to send transactional email like password resets, shipping notifications, etc. But just using SMTP isn’t enough. There’s a lot that can go […]

What is IP Warming? You just got yourself a shiny new IP address and you’re ready to blast out 100,000 emails in your first day!  There is one problem…you can’t do that. Well, technically you can, but you definitely don’t want to. If you haven’t gotten the memo yet, there’s this thing called a sender […]

8 Things to Look for When Choosing the Best Bulk Email Service – Socketlabs Email Delivery Solutions Maybe you’re looking to integrate a marketing or transactional email system into your existing web application, or maybe you’re a system administrator setting up an email infrastructure for your company – no matter the case, building a bulk […]

As an email sender, deliverability is key.  But getting email successfully to your recipient’s inbox is only half the battle.  Have you ever considered what happens after the email is delivered? At the end of the day, getting your recipients to open and read your email is the ultimate goal.  As you have likely found, […]

Today we’re going to talk a little about the benefits of DMARC. What is DMARC? DMARC is an email technology that is really cool. It’s essentially an email authentication protocol that is designed to give email domain owners the ability to protect their domain from unauthorized use. DMARC email authentication is really valuable to companies […]