The Deliverable Diary

Since Gmail changed its inbox layout, many marketers find their emails appearing under the “Promotions” tab in Gmail, instead of the recipient’s inbox. The tabs are optional for Gmail users, but many recipients are choosing to take advantage of them, to make sorting their mail easier. This isn’t all bad news for marketers, however, as Return […]

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This is a post for current members and will be of interest to you if you have a firewall that is currently only allowing outbound connections to particular IP addresses. In other words, your firewall is restricting all outbound connections except certain IP addresses that you have specified. To get technical, we are adding new IP addresses […]

Since downloading Windows 10, a lot of people have been experiencing issues sending mails via Outlook. You may see the following error message: User account – Sending’ reported error (0x800CCC13): ‘Cannot connect to the network. Verify your network connection or modem. If this happens, you’ll need to repair corrupted files by using the Windows System File Checker […]

Since the OS X Yosemite update to Apple Mail, many clients have been experiencing problems while sending emails. They’ve checked usernames and passwords, swapped port numbers and servers, and re-entered SMTP settings countless times, but nothing seems to work. Here’s how to fix it: From the ‘Mail’ menu, go to ‘Preferences’. Once there, click on […]

Some email senders abuse unsubscribe best practices so badly it seems like they’ve gone a step beyond just ignoring the best practices. They appear to almost want to get their messages marked as spam. To call these bad senders out and to clarify what’s okay and not okay for the rest of us, we’ve put […]