bimi – Word to the Wise
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BIMI is the protocol you can use to publish an icon to display in the inbox of some large consumer webmail providers. To have it displayed at Gmail you need more than just clean DMARC and a publish…| Word to the Wise
You should probably stop using Encert for BIMI certificates. Apple definitely think you should.| Word to the Wise
I’ve been hearing a lot lately about DMARC. Being at M3AAWG has increased that. Last night we were at dinner and heard from the next table “And they’re not even publishing DMARC!!…| Word to the Wise
DMARC stands for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance. What DMARC does is allow domain owners to publish policy statements in DNS telling receiver domains what to do with …| Word to the Wise
When a mailbox provider rejects or defers an email it sends back a message explaining why. Those messages begin with a three digit number (starting with a “5” for rejections and a ̶…| Word to the Wise
We use DNS a lot in email, particularly for authentication, so diagnosing why DNS isn’t returning what we expect it to is a pretty common challenge. And DNS responses aren’t exactly the…| Word to the Wise
Jody asks “Are ‘prefetch opens’ and ‘proxy opens’ the same thing?” Non-human opens An “open” is just someone (or something) fetching a remote image. …| Word to the Wise
DMARC is the newest of the authentication protocols. It compares the domain in the From: address to the domains authenticated by SPF and DKIM. If either SPF or DKIM pass and they are in the same or…| Word to the Wise
The gentleman with the excellent hat is Иван IV Васильевич, The Great Sovereign, Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia, Vladimir, Moscow, Novgorod, Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Sovereign of Psko…| Word to the Wise
Happy 2024, everyone! We’ve released a shiny new tool to let folks self-check a lot of common questions we see about email requirements. Go to AboutMy.email and send an email to the email add…| Word to the Wise
Seen this recently? 451 Message temporarily deferred due to unresolvable RFC.5321 from domain; see This is Yahoo doing some extra work to identify that the 5321.From domainThe return-path, aka the …| Word to the Wise
