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9 Ways to Improve Your Email Open Rate: At Socketlabs, we process millions of emails. So we know what it takes to get your emails to the inbox and opened. Some basic rules about how to get your emails opened have been around for the last ten years. So let’s start with the first tip. […]

When you think about the Holidays, what do you imagine? I picture holiday music, ugly sweaters, family, warm eggnog, and eating too much food. Yet, this is not a reality for thousands of families during the holidays. Here’s why: According to Feeding America, 1 in 8 people struggles with hunger. And in the Philadelphia region, […]

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 […]

You may know what spam is, but do you know the history of spam? Since SocketLabs is all about email and helping you get your messages safely to the inbox, we wrote a detailed blog article about the fascinating history of spam. You can read it here. In addition to the blog article, here’s a […]

  Do You Know the History of Spam? This article will get you up to speed on the history of spam. But first, let’s quickly define what spam is. There are many definitions of spam but for the sake of simplicity lets define spam as the mass transmission of unwanted messages. Though it wasn’t called […]

Are You Ready to Send More Email over the Holiday Season? Did you know that during the holidays we tend to see email traffic increase by up to 30% platform wide? Well, the holidays are fast approaching and if you’re planning to send more email during the holiday season then now is the perfect time […]

If you are not certain that your messages are being securely transmitted to the SocketLabs platform, then today is a great day to review your current configurations.  We’ve launched additional options, features, and security to the encryption behind the SocketLabs SMTP gateway.  With these great enhancements in place we are calling for all SocketLabs customers to […]

In our last blog article we discussed how recipient engagement is becoming the cornerstone of modern anti-spam systems. We took an in-depth look at open and click data from our customers and explained how this can be used to correlate the perceived desirability of messages to recipients. The article brought out a lot of questions […]

Spam filtering used to be a cut and dry affair, very binary, black and white. Mail was either spam or it was not spam. Analyzing a message and deciding the bucket for each was also a simple process. For the most part filtering technology scaled well along with the rise of the internet. DNS blacklists, the […]

Uploading email lists can be challenging, but we have just made it much easier with our newly revamped list upload tools.