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The trouble with hotmail is they sometimes just blackhole what they classify to be spam, instead of filtering it into the Junk folder. It doesn't even bounce, it just disappears.
Gmail does this as well. Our outbound mail to Gmail accounts was just disappearing until we fixed a reverse DNS record.
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The trouble with hotmail is they sometimes just blackhole what they classify to be spam, instead of filtering it into the Junk folder. It doesn't even bounce, it just disappears.
Gmail does this as well. Our outbound mail to Gmail accounts was just disappearing until we fixed a reverse DNS record.
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Getting high deliverability is actually incredibly complicated. Urban legend. You need a dedicated IP address to send mail from, which you need to be whitelisted by the big ESPs That is nonsense. Nobody reaches out to the ESPs to have their IPs "whitelisted" in advance. You reach out when, if and after you've been blacklisted, in order to get unlisted . To get it whitelisted, you need to "warm it up" before you start…
> That is nonsense. Nobody reaches out to the ESPs to have their IPs "whitelisted" in advance. You reach out when, if and after you've been blacklisted, in order to get unlisted. That's nonsense, lots of people do that. Only you don't usually go direct to the service provider, see following links: http://www.returnpath.net/commercialsender/certification/ http://www.spamhauswhitelist.com/en/ http://www.certified-sende…
Lots of people also believe in astrology. Anyone is free to do what they deem good for their karma, you just shouldn't expect a measurable impact towards your deliverability. The big ESPs don't look at these lists.
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Postmark App ( http://postmarkapp.com ) has worked well for me in terms of sending large quantities of emails in the past. Easy integration, good team, active development.
I've just used PostMarkApp on a site, I love their interface, all works great but they only allow 'transactional' emails, which I guess is like 'click here to activate your account', whereas my site was sending out alerts to people (kind of like facebook does, but not as often), which they didn't seem to like too much. Does sendgrid allow this? I've signed up to SocketLabs which seems to do it but haven't been able t…
I'll second that Xero is an excellent service and it really doesn't get as much press as it deserves in the states. They're very easy to use and have done an heroic job building out both the software and support. HOWEVER, their entry-pricing is incredibly irritating. For $228/year you can't add any more than 5 invoices or reconcile more than 20 lines of bank statement per month. For the entire price of quickbooks eve…
But for only $29/month you can. How much is your time worth? If the service saves you even an hour per month, surely it is worth it.
I hate this argument. It's so narrowly focused (and for some reason, often regurgitated). Money adds up a lot quicker than that one hour of your time. If you save yourself 10 hours of work per month because of a couple services you pay for, but end up spending an extra $300/month while your startup isn't making any money -- is that actually smart time/money management?
There are more factors involved than simply how you value your time. The stage your business is in, how much money you're pulling in, how many other things you need to get done per day, is your startup bootstrapped, do you still have a day job, etc.
That is the most underwhelming endorsement of salesforce.com I've ever seen.
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> That is nonsense. Nobody reaches out to the ESPs to have their IPs "whitelisted" in advance. You reach out when, if and after you've been blacklisted, in order to get unlisted. That's nonsense, lots of people do that. Only you don't usually go direct to the service provider, see following links: http://www.returnpath.net/commercialsender/certification/ http://www.spamhauswhitelist.com/en/ http://www.certified-sende…
That's nonsense, lots of people do that. Lots of people also believe in astrology. Anyone is free to do what they deem good for their karma, you just shouldn't expect a measurable impact towards your deliverability. The big ESPs don't look at these lists.
Some of them do.
AOL uses GoodMailSystems.
http://postmaster.aol.com/Postmaster.Whitelist.php
http://www.goodmailsystems.com/
Hotmail uses ReturnPath.
http://mail.live.com/mail/services.aspx#Safelist
Yahoo seems to run their own. I remember them using one of the big ones but I can't find any mention in their help pages now.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/bulkv2.html
Google only asks for best practices, but it's possibly they look at some of the whitelists for more data.