Just a short note to say that yes the website is still alive! Apologies for the radio silence. The site’s hosting has been migrated to something more manageable and faster. The blog will start to get more regular updates on changes affecting the email industry. There’s a backlog of unpublished posts in various degrees of completeness and also some very interesting changes happening in 2026. Stay tuned.
2024 Update: Gmail and Yahoo! Change Their Sending Requirements Last updated: 10 August 2024 Refer to Chapter 8 (Sender Reputation) and Chapter 11 (Email Authentication) of Email Deliverability Explained (2nd edition) for background information on topics discussed in this post. Back in October 2023 Google and Yahoo! simultaneously announced that they would begin enforcing new requirements for bulk senders from February 2024 onwards. By June 2024 all of the new requirements are officially being enforced. ...
Publication - Email Deliverability Explained (second edition) is now live on Amazon Delighted to announce that the second edition of Email Deliverability Explained is officially available as of today on Amazon. It took a long while to get here, but it was worth it. I have plans to release a Kindle edition at some point, but not immediately. The print edition always more popular historically. As any self-published author will tell you, it’s a team effort. I would like to thank everyone who helped make this possible. You know who you are.