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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.

Welcome to Your Gallery Now it’s easier than ever to incorporate images in your email content thanks to the new image management features in the SocketLabs Email Designer. Effortlessly upload images to your gallery then insert them into your email content with a simple click. Since SocketLabs hosts the images for you, there is nothing further […]

Our Gift to Software Developers, Marketers & Designers SocketLabs API Templates allow software developers to programmatically send email content which is easily created in our new email designer. By separating the email content and design from the code, marketers and designers have full visibility into and control of the email content, design, and branding. Furthermore, […]

Draggable, Droppable, Unstoppable It’s been a while since we released the first version of our email newsletter design feature back in 2014. Although it was a good first effort, it never really lived up to the vision that we had for creating email content. I am happy to announce that we have released an all […]

Gmail Will Use a Strict DMARC Record Beginning in 2016. How Will This Affect Your Email? Update 6/15/2016: Google has indefinitely postponed it’s move to p=reject for the gmail.com domain. Google will continuously reevaluate the (negative) impact of this change and when they believe the consequences have been reduced to a tolerable level they will proceed with the implementation. — Today […]

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 […]