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SparkPost to SocketLabs: Your Guide to Easy Migration

SocketLabs makes an easy SparkPost alternative for those looking to get more from their email service provider…
sparkpost alternative

SparkPost to SocketLabs: Your Guide to Easy Migration

SocketLabs makes an easy SparkPost alternative for those looking to get more from their email service provider…

by SocketLabs - December 2, 2019
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TechBash 2019: The SocketLabs Takeaway

About TechBash This past week (Nov 12-15) the SocketLabs team headed north to Pocono Manor, PA for TechBash 2019.  TechBash is a developer conference focused on cutting edge topics in cloud, mobile, web and desktop application development. The conference was inclusive and very family friendly (the final day of the conference even had full track […]

by John Alessi - November 26, 2019
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How To Send Email From an Azure Web App

Sending email from your Azure web application just got easier with the SocketLabs Email Service listed in the Azure App Center…

by Jarred Injaian - November 22, 2019
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Easy Mailjet Alternative: SocketLabs Getting Started Guide

If you are looking for a Mailjet alternative after their recent acquisition by Mailgun, SocketLabs makes it easy to get up and running…

by SocketLabs - November 5, 2019
sendgrid alternative

SendGrid Migration Guide: Finding New Value With SocketLabs

Looking for a new email service provider? This SendGrid Migration Guide makes it easy for unhappy customers find new value with SocketLabs…

by SocketLabs - October 4, 2019
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New SocketLabs Email Tools

SocketLabs is excited to introduce four new email tools that will simplify the tedious and complicated tasks associated with email platform management…

by Jarred Injaian - June 27, 2019
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7 Ways to Improve Your Email Deliverability

Email deliverability can make or break your application. Here are 7 best practices on how to improve your email deliverability.

by Jarred Injaian - June 13, 2019
Secure Your API Keys

Keeping Your API Keys Secure In Browser Applications

If you’re building an app that needs to use a third-party API, chances are that you have encountered the ‘access-control-allow-origin’ error message…

by John Alessi - May 13, 2019

Effective Transactional Email Design: The Anatomy of a Receipt Email

What does an effective transactional email design look like? In this post, you’ll learn how to create an an effective transactional receipt email that…

by John Porrini - April 4, 2019
what is telnet

How to Test SMTP Relay Server Connection Issues With This Powerful Telnet Alternative

Get step by step instructions on how to test your SMTP relay connection with SocketLabs’ telnet alternative.

by John Porrini - March 28, 2019

Email Parsing 101: Everything You Need to Know

An email parsing API is a service or SaaS application that extracts configurable data from inbound or outbound emails and applies it to…

by Jarred Injaian - March 19, 2019
powershell automation

Making the Most of PowerShell Automation – More than Just Sending Email

If you are an IT administrator and want to learn more about how you can use PowerShell automation to simplify administrative duties…

by SocketLabs - March 11, 2019
Create .NEt Application

C# Email Tutorial: Enabling Your .NET App to Send Email With the C# Library

This C# email tutorial will show you how to enable email sending in your .NET application. Ready? To enable sending into your .NET app, you first need to…

by John Alessi - February 28, 2019
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How to Use a Web API to Send Email Asynchronously

If you’re looking to use a web API to send email asynchronously, or if you’d like to learn more about async, then read this post.

by John Porrini - February 22, 2019
hipaa email API

The Software Developer’s Guide to HIPAA Email APIs

Do you need a HIPAA email API for your app? In this post we’re going to help you understand the basics of HIPAA and email. Let’s get started…

by John Porrini - January 9, 2019
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What is a Webhook? [Crash Course on Email Webhooks]

Wondering what’s a webhook? In this article, you’ll get a crash course on webhooks. You’ll learn, what’s a webhook, example of webhooks, why use….

by John Porrini - January 7, 2019
email-api-php

An Easy to Use PHP Email API – No SMTP Server Required!

SocketLabs has a PHP email library to help you send email from your PHP apps and not end up in the spam folder. Check out our code samples and get started today.

by Bernie Harrison - December 21, 2018
.net send email

.Net Send Email: Introducing the C# Library for The .NET Framework

If you’re looking to send email from an application built with the .NET framework, then look no further than our newly created C# library…

by Scott Figario - December 14, 2018
nodejs-send-email

Building the Node.js Send Email Library While Embracing the Flexible Nature of JavaScript

Our goal with the SocketLabs Nodejs Send Email library was to embrace the flexible nature of the JavaScript language and the Node.js framework, thereby allowing developers to use the library in their own preferred coding style.

by John Porrini - December 11, 2018
c# send email guide

[Guide] How to Use C# to Send Email From Your Application (With Code Samples)

Need to use C# to send email from your app? In this short guide, we’ll show you how to enable your C# app to send email! Get C# code samples…

by John Porrini - December 5, 2018
Web api send email

How to Use a Web API to Send Email

With just a simple API, any developer can enable their organization to send email at scale. Learn more about using a Web API to send email…

by John Porrini - November 19, 2018
Secure Email API

Secure Email API: Best Practices for Message Protection

Does using an API make email more secure? In this blog post we’ll discuss whether or not an Email API will make your email more secure. Ready? Let’s go…

by John Porrini - November 19, 2018

9 Tools to Make the Job of a Web Developer Easier

Looking for the best tools to make your job as a web developer easier? We put together a list of 9 of our favorite tools for web developers. Keep reading to see the list…

by John Porrini - January 15, 2018

A Monumental Leap for Our Best Email Designer Yet

In our effort to help anyone build and send effective email campaigns, we have taken our suite of Simple Email Marketing Tools to a whole new level. And today, we’re happy to introduce our biggest update yet to the SocketLabs Email Designer. Here are just a few of the improvements that we made: With a […]

by John Porrini - July 3, 2017
Drag and drop is here

Our Email Designer Just Got Even Better With Sections & Elements

See how we made it even easier for anyone to create a great looking email with our Email Designer. Today, we’re proud to unveil the first of many big changes to the Email Designer coming from our dedicated developers and designers who managed to do some awesome work, even with Nerf Darts blazing past their […]

by John Porrini - May 2, 2017
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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…

by John Porrini - March 15, 2017

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, […]

by John Alessi - March 9, 2017
API Templates

Introducing API Templates

Send email content programmatically using SocketLabs new API templates. Learn more about our email content templates, the benefits and how they work!

by John Alessi - February 16, 2016

Mobile HTML Email: A First Step

Mobile HTML design can be complicated & difficult to get working for multiple email clients. Learn quick, easy tips for creating a mobile friendly email!

by John Alessi - October 22, 2014

Email Content Analysis: An Inbound Parse Sample Application – Part 2

In Part 2 of our series on Inbound Parsing sample applications, we’re examining a simple web application built with Node.js, MongoDB, WebSockets, and D3.js. Though aimed more at developers, this post also might serve to inspire some business use cases for SocketLabs’ Inbound Parse feature. To start off, let’s take a peek at the front […]

by John Alessi - August 26, 2013

New SocketLabs On-Demand API and More!

New API and Other Great New Features This past week we released some brand new Socketlabs On-Demand features and functionality that we think our customers are going to love.  We have a brand-new email API which we call our Notification API.  The new Notification API delivers real-time event tracking notifications (messages sent, failed, etc…) via […]

by John Alessi - March 15, 2013

Best Practices for Using Custom MailingIDs and MessageIDs

Socket Labs provides information on the best practices for using custom MailingIDs and MessageIDs. Find email delivery solutions at SocketLabs.com!

by Brian Godiksen - January 24, 2013

All new Suppression List management features now available!

SocketLabs is excited to announce some great new features to help you manage your Suppression List! If you are unfamiliar with the Suppression List page, it can be found in the Control Panel. Once you’ve selected a Server to manage just click on Configuration menu in the top menu bar and then select “View Suppression List”. Upon […]

by Brian Godiksen - October 11, 2011

New Search Features

We are always hard at work trying to enhance your experience with our SocketLabs On-Demand service.  This week we released an update that contained some fantastic new enhancements.  If you haven’t already noticed, here is a quick overview of what we added. Searching in the Control Panel and API You will find it is much […]

by Brian Godiksen - July 15, 2011

Hurricane MTA Server Updates

Over the past few months we have released some powerful new functionality into Hurricane MTA Server for our on-premise customers. Delivery Rule Overrides Delivery rule overrides enable you to globally override all delivery rules for an account. For example, if you wanted to change the throttling for an account to 50 messages per hour, per […]

by John Alessi - November 30, 2010

Bounce and Feedback Loop Test Addresses

Test your bounce and feedback loop processing systems with our auto-responder email addresses. Check out SocketLabs, and try our services for Free!

by John Alessi - July 24, 2009

New Plugin API Interface for Hurricane MTA Server Expands Integration Potential Infinitely

Hurricane MTA Server’s event-driven plugin API has long been one of its greatest features and strengths. It enables real-time event-driven integration and data push capabilities never before seen in an MTA. Interfaces like IOutboundSMTPConncetion and its OnSent(), OnFail() and OnDefer() event methods allow developers to handle real-time events with .Net code just as easy as […]

by John Alessi - July 9, 2009

Handling Feedback Loop Reports with a Plugin

One of the cool new events supported by the new IDynamic plugin API interface is OnFeedbackLoopParsed which can be fired each time a feedback loop report is received and processed by Hurricane MTA Server. The following code illustrates how the event can be handled by your code. If you have not read about the new […]

by John Alessi - July 8, 2009