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It’s all about Engagement It may seem early to be thinking about holiday email deliverability, but months before Santa begins packing his sleigh, email activity skyrockets as marketers begin holiday ad campaigns, consumers start shopping, and inboxes begin to fill up. This time of year people have less time to engage with their email yet they […]

With news of recent vulnerability disclosures, account compromises, and various data breaches, security is a very hot topic in the IT world. Here at SocketLabs we are fully committed to the security and protection of our hosted email solutions, customers, and their data. As you may know, we’ve touched on some of these points and […]

The fight against spam continues to wage onwards, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. Here at SocketLabs, we follow this war closely in order to understand how the mailbox providers are adjusting their defenses. Monitoring changes by mailbox providers allows us to better understand common issues our customers may be encountering […]

Thank you to all of our customers, fans and partners for making 2014 our best year ever! We started 2014 by moving our entire company into new and improved offices, custom designed for efficiency, collaboration and creativity. Part of that design included an integrated NOC (Network Operations Center) as the heart of our infrastructure health […]

Here at SocketLabs we spend a lot of time policing our network to protect it from abuse. Abuse can come in many forms including, but not limited to, malicious users, compromised systems, poor list acquisition techniques, bad affiliates, etc. Not all abuse is treated equally and we spend a lot of time blocking the bad […]

We all make New Year’s resolutions. Why not make a resolution to improve your email results in 2015? By making some simple changes and updates you can see better results from your email campaigns in 2015. Follow these 5 simple recommendations and see your results take off! 1. Clean Your List The New Year is […]

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 […]

The Situation It’s been a bad year for passwords. LinkedIn, eHarmony, Home Depot, Last.fm, Yahoo (the list goes on and on), have all been hacked to one degree or another and had the password hashes of many tens of millions of users uploaded to various hacking forums for all to see. In a perfect world […]

Did you know that the registration information on file for your domain could impact your ability to reach the inbox? This data can also affect your compliance with laws like CAN-SPAM and CASL. The problem is that you likely didn’t think twice about the information you provided during the registration process. You may have even […]

Start Simple With Responsive HTML Email Design In the world of transactional and marketing email, the actual process of coding your content into HTML and CSS has been described as a black art. A large variety of differing email clients rendering your messages, each with a different level of standards (non)compliance, and the need to […]