No email benchmark has a primary source

No email benchmark has a primary source

You have seen the sentence, in a deck, an article or a sales proposal: “the industry average open rate is 21.5 percent”. Take five minutes and walk back up the chain. The figure comes from a blog post, citing an annual report, published by an email...
The open rate died in June 2021

The open rate died in June 2021

On 7 June 2021, Apple announced Mail Privacy Protection for iOS 15, iPadOS 15, macOS Monterey and watchOS 8. The wording of the press release is unambiguous: “Mail Privacy Protection stops senders from using invisible pixels to collect information about the...
Your DKIM key may be fifteen years old

Your DKIM key may be fifteen years old

DKIM signs your messages. It is the only one of the three authentications that survives a forward, the only one Yahoo requires before telling you who complained, and the only one without which your one-click unsubscribe button does not appear. It is also the one you...
SPF: ten DNS lookups, not eleven

SPF: ten DNS lookups, not eleven

Your SPF record fits on one line. It declares who is allowed to send mail in your name, and it looks like this: v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:sendgrid.net include:servers.mcsv.net include:_spf.salesforce.com ~all Four providers, four includes, one perfectly...
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