SocketLabs, the GDPR and Privacy Shield. What Email Senders Need to Know.
We are writing this article to let you know about the upcoming GDPR regulations, what we are doing at SocketLabs regarding our own compliance and ways that we may be able to help you with yours. As a trusted email delivery service, we hope to educate you on issues involving the use of our email […]
Introducing The Customer Support PIN

At SocketLabs, we take the security of your account and data very seriously. That’s why we created a new feature called the Customer Support PIN. Now, when you call or live chat with us, we may ask you to provide your four digit PIN to verify that you are associated with the account. In this […]
Best Practices with Sender Policy Framework (SPF)

What is SPF? Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is one of the primary means of authenticating email messages as they transit the Internet. The importance of SPF is growing as additional technologies, such as DMARC, are built on top of the standard. As more domains implement SPF records, greater value is derived from the framework for anti-spam […]
How to Ensure That Forwarded Messages Arrive at the Destination Mailbox

Auto-Forwarding is a frequently used mailbox rule to move messages along from a secondary mailbox to a primary mailbox. But, this in itself has some shortcomings, such as forwarding spam messages along or failing to forward messages along due to security policies put in place by the original sender of the message. We have in […]
Are You Aware of This Hidden Danger of Collecting Email Addresses on Your Website?

Subscription bombing, also known as mail bombing, is an internet-wide trend where malicious bots attack a person via their email address, ultimately rendering the address and email account useless for a period of time. In this article, we’ll discuss how you – the sender, can be compromised by an attack if the forms on your […]
How to Create Personalized Emails Using Custom Fields

With even more access to marketing data, marketers are focusing more on personalization of email and custom fields can help you send personalized emails…
Take Your Notification API and Inbound Parse API Endpoints Serverless with Azure Functions

Take Your Notification API and Inbound Parse API Endpoints Serverless with Azure Functions SocketLabs offers a suite of powerful programming language agnostic APIs, which enable application developers to integrate with the SocketLabs On-Demand platform. Two of our popular APIs are the Notification API and the Inbound Parse API. When you send mail through SocketLabs On-Demand, […]
How to Unleash the Power of Merge Fields

SocketLabs offers the ability to send messages through your server using our Injection API. With the Injection API you can use JSON or XML to create a large number of messages and send them to your SocketLabs server over HTTP, rather than SMTP. This allows for some significant flexibility in sending email, especially in cases […]
9 Ways to Improve Your Email Open Rate

SocketLabs processes millions of emails, so we know what it takes to get emails opened. Here are 9 actionable tips to help improve your email open rate.