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Protecting Your Email Address from Spambots

What is a spambot? Spambots are address harvesting robots that scrape the internet looking for email addresses to build mailing lists. Common places for spambots to collect email addresses include...

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BES/Exchange vs. POP3/IMAP Blackberry

Clients often ask about BES and synchronization of calendars and contacts between Outlook and Blackberry. One of the major issues is specifically how to synchronize calendars and contacts data between...

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Sending Bulk Email

You’ve recently moved your email to an email hosting provider. The incoming spam is finally under control and your users have all transitioned to the new server without issue. Then you get the call...

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Using Twitter in Microsoft Outlook

As social networking sites gain momentum, the question arises how to integrate content and information from sites like Twitter into popular client side communication tools like Microsoft Outlook....

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When Do You Need An Email Consultant?

Do you have questions about your company’s email and want guidance in selecting and/or maintaining an email solution for your business? If so, you may want to consider hiring an email consultant to...

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Free Email Hosting for Non-Profits

Greatmail LLC offers free basic email hosting for non-profit organizations and qualifying small businesses. In order to be eligible for free email hosting, non-profit organizations must meet the...

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Sender Authentication with DKIM and SPF

Sender authentication technologies like DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) and Sender Policy Framework (SPF) not only help control spam but also improve deliverability of legitimate messages....

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Greatmail Develops MxGrid SMTP Service

Greatmail now offers an easy to use SMTP service, MxGrid, for high volume email applications. MxGrid eliminates the need to set up a domain for high volume sending and seamlessly adds DKIM signing and...

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Best Practices for Bulk Email Senders

Whether you’re using a third party application or building your own bulk email system, there are a few critical list management tasks your mailer should be able to handle.  These best practices will...

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Greatmail Officially Launches SMTP Hosting Service

Following eight successful months in beta, Greatmail’s MxGrid SMTP service is now fully integrated into the company’s service line and renamed simply ‘SMTP Hosting’. The SMTP offering includes support...

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SMTP Hosting – Transactional, Marketing or Both?

If you are looking for an SMTP hosting service, then you probably have an application that sends out either marketing or transactional messages and are looking for a host to relay these messages in...

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Reseller Email Hosting, Private Label Solutions

Leveraging a third party for email doesn’t mean compromising brand or identity. Email resellers both large and small can wholly outsource their email offerings and at the same time offer a fully...

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SMTP Hosting Sign Up

When signing up for SMTP Hosting at Greatmail, in addition to selecting the number of monthly sends, there are 2 preferences you must select to ensure your account is provisioned correctly — 1) Type of...

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Email Hosting Plan Storage

When you sign up for email hosting, you must select a multiplier of 10 or 25 GBs per mailbox. The storage multiplier is used to generate your total plan storage, i.e., Total Mailboxes x Storage...

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Outlook 2016 POP3 Download Bug

We have heard reports from multiple POP3 users at different locations that Outlook 2016 is permanently deleting messages off the server, seemingly overriding their Outlook settings to save copies of...

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POP3 vs IMAP

POP3 and IMAP are two popular protocols used to configure mailboxes in mail client applications on desktop computers, mobile phones and tablets. What distinguishes these protocols from one another is...

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Free vs. Paid Email

In order to reduce expenses, many businesses opt to use free email addresses when first starting up.  And while you can get some mileage out of free email addresses, there are some drawbacks to using...

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Protect Yourself from Email Viruses and Malware

Email viruses and malware are constantly evolving which makes it difficult if not impossible for even the best rated antivirus and spam protection programs to keep on top of emerging threats.  The last...

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Improve Email Marketing Deliveries and Message Acceptance Rates

In a recent Quora response, we discussed how bulk senders can improve email deliveries.  There are many factors that affect email delivery and acceptance rates, and the following points are intended...

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Enabling EAS Connections in Outlook 2016

Some versions of Microsoft Outlook 2016 feature “Simplified Account Creation” which does not allow for configuration of mailboxes using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS). Fortunately, the “Simplified Account...

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