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socketlabs acquires emailninjas

SocketLabs Acquires EmailNinjas

SocketLabs is excited to announce the recent acquisition of EmailNinjas, an email agency specializing in installation, configuration and support of on-premises MTAs.

socketlabs acquires emailninjas

SocketLabs Acquires EmailNinjas

SocketLabs is excited to announce the recent acquisition of EmailNinjas, an email agency specializing in installation, configuration and support of on-premises MTAs.

by SocketLabs - July 30, 2021
hosted email infrastructure

Email Infrastructure Landscape: Your Guide to Email Delivery in 2021

Using a hosted email infrastructure solution is one of the best ways to send your transactional and marketing email…

by Lauren Meyer - July 23, 2021
on-premise email server

SocketLabs On-Premises Email Server: Hurricane MTA

SocketLabs is excited to introduce the latest on-premise email server, Hurricane MTA,  available with increased performance, expanded security, and…

by SocketLabs - March 26, 2020
Hurricane MTA Server 3.0

Introducing Hurricane MTA 3.0

Introducing Hurricane MTA 3.0 Now You Can Experience Security, Speed & Enhanced Customization Options Like Never Before SocketLabs is excited to introduce the new, updated version of our enterprise class, on-premise email delivery solution: Hurricane MTA Server 3.0. We’ve made great improvements to the Hurricane MTA Server; such as adding cutting-edge features that will help […]

by John Alessi - November 15, 2016

Load Balancing Your Hurricane MTA Servers

The Hurricane MTA Server (HMS), when administered by an email deliverability professional, is able to efficiently process large volumes of email messages. While the HMS is a powerful system by itself, if there is a need to scale to truly large volumes of email, one is not enough. When using two or more Hurricane MTA […]

by John Alessi - November 20, 2014

5 Hurricane MTA Features That Improve Deliverability

Make these 5 Hurricane MTA Server configuration changes to maximize your email deliverability and get your email into the inbox. Read more at SocketLabs.

by John Alessi - February 24, 2014

Introducing Hurricane Load Balancer

The Hurricane Load Balancer is a great on-premise addition to Hurricane product family that enables real high availability SMTP server configuration.

by John Alessi - December 23, 2013

Hurricane MTA Server’s HTTP / Webhook Event Engine

SocketLabs Hurricane Server platform now supports the queuing and delivery of high volume HTTP/S POST messages with a new Webhook Event Engine.

by Bill Volz - September 30, 2013

SocketLabs Updates On-Premise SMTP Server Software

SocketLabs announces the latest update to its on-premise SMTP server software Hurricane MTA Server version 2.2.

by John Alessi - September 25, 2013

Introducing Hurricane MTA Server Version 2.1

At SocketLabs we strive to provide cutting edge technology for delivering bulk email. Our flagship Hurricane MTA Server continues to lead the market with innovative functionality that you can’t find in any other SMTP MTA server.  We are pleased to announce the availability of Hurricane MTA Server version 2.1, a new release that introduces some […]

by John Alessi - May 22, 2013

2012 in Review

2012 was another great year at SocketLabs. We maintained strong growth and expanded our SMTP Server and SMTP Relay systems. Here is what we accomplished:

by John Alessi - January 30, 2013

Hurricane MTA Server 2.0 Feature Highlight – HTTP Event Engine

One of the cool new features of the Hurricane MTA Server 2.0 release is the new HTTP Event Engine.  What’s cool about the Event Engine is that you can now have Hurricane MTA Server send your application delivery events like sent, bounced, failed and feedback loops directly, in real-time without having to parse log files […]

by John Alessi - November 6, 2012

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

Hurricane MTA Server Update Includes 64bit Support and More!

The blog has been kind of quiet lately but we’ve been VERY busy at work. If you haven’t noticed there have been many improvements to SocketLabs On-Demand over the past months including a new interface with beautiful reporting, a new API and many other new and improved user-friendly features. On-Premise customers don’t worry, we have […]

by John Alessi - April 28, 2010

New Hurricane MTA Server Release Boasts Powerful New Features

Automatic Suppression Lists The latest production release of Hurricane MTA Server adds powerful automatic suppression lists that boost your deliverability and protect your reputation by automatically blocking repeat emails to invalid addresses and email addresses that have filed complaints against you. This incredibly intelligent and automatic feature is out of beta and currently in production. […]

by John Alessi - December 16, 2009

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 Smart Delivery Rule Update

We just released a new production release of Hurricane MTA Server and there are two things you should know about it: First, now our new Dynamic Block Rules are a part of the Smart Delivery Rules. Now, protecting your reputation is automatic. You can read more about Dynamic Block Rules here. Second, Smart Delivery Rules […]

by John Alessi - July 21, 2009

Protect your Email Reputation with New Dynamic Block Rules

Protecting your email reputation is getting harder, yet it’s critical to successful delivery of marketing or transactional email. Protect your email reputation.

by John Alessi - July 10, 2009

Webinar to Highlight New Features of Hurricane MTA Server

Please join us for a free webinar which will highlight the new features of Hurricane MTA Server released in June and how they can be used to protect your reputation and increase your email deliverability. The webinar will be offered at two dates/times: Tuesday July 14th 4PM EDT (click here to register) Tuesday July 21st […]

by SocketLabs - July 9, 2009

Feedback Loop Processing and Reporting in Hurricane MTA Server

One of the biggest updates in the new release of Hurricane MTA Server is built in feedback loop report processing. Learn about feedback loops at Socket Labs.

by John Alessi - July 9, 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

IP Tagging / Warmup

The latest Hurricane MTA Server beta build includes exciting new deliverability increasing features. Each IP on Hurricane MTA Server can now be tagged with a user defined id which can be used to classify IP addresses. Delivery rules can then be tagged to restrict them to IPs with the same tag. To tag a delivery […]

by John Alessi - March 19, 2009

Customer Feedback is King

I have been helping companies build bulk email applications for over 10 years. During that time, the feedback and suggestions provided by customers have been critical to our understanding of their needs and the needs of the market as a whole. Hurricane MTA Server is a great product because of our customers. Our customers are […]

by John Alessi - March 12, 2009

Testing Hurricane Server Processing and Speed…

If you want to set up an artificial environment to test Hurricane Server’s processing and speed and you have another Hurricane Server, you can run the second Hurricane Server server in a special mode that will cause it to accept all mail from the first Hurricane Server server and simply vaporize it. Here is how: […]

by John Alessi - September 24, 2007

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