Starting from February 1, 2024, Google and Yahoo will introduce new rules for those who send emails in bulk to @gmail and @yahoo contacts.
What will change?
After the intervention to strengthen the sending infrastructure, the level of connection security to the SmartRelay was increased. In case of using TLS protocols for communication encryption, a strongly recommended practice, we ask you to verify the correct functioning of sending communications, remembering that at the moment the supported and updated ciphers are the following:
Domain spoofing, phishing and spear phishing are now the order of the day, forcing more and more companies to equip themselves with email authentication systems in order to secure the best delivery rates, maintain a high reputation and get through spam filters.
How to design your forms safely? The Contactlab platform already offer the possibility of using a captcha to control subscriptions, for example to your newsletters, from illegitimate activities. The feature is always active and available when creating a form on the platform.
When people talk about inbox placement rates and reputation, they inevitably think of SPF, DKIM and DMARC. Threats such as domain spoofing, phishing and spear phishing have been encouraging the development of more reassuring sender domain authentication strategies for brands for quite some time now.
How many times have you filled in a registration form like the one below? The data collection, the acceptance of privacy and… I’m not a robot.
At its conference in early June, Apple announced important new features including Mail Privacy Protection built into iOS15 which will be released from September 2021. This new feature changes the way you have to look at the open rates of your email deliveries.
When we are creating marketing emails, we pay a lot of attention to the content. Not only words, but also CTAs, objects, images, etc. Everything contributes to the readability and pleasantness of the communication. The optimal approach remains a good balance of all the elements so that the reader is not bored by paragraphs and paragraphs of text.
The authentication of the sender’s domain is increasingly important in the world of e-mail. Threats such as domain spoofing, phishing and spear phishing have encouraged the development of stronger authentication strategies for brands. Protocols such as SPF – Sender Policy Framework and DKIM – DomainKeys Identified Mail, have started showing some pitfalls. It becomes fundamental to think about adding new check methods, first of all DMARC.
In February 2016 Google stated that it had over one billion active Gmail users, a news unthinkable when years earlier the first e-mail was sent. In 2019, it confirmed itself as the first e-mail client used in the world with a market share of almost 30%, and the other e-mail providers being separated by many percentage points – the only exception is Apple iPhone, which moved hand in hand, but that’s history unto itself.