The Deliverable Diary

There’s a battle being waged just beyond your inbox… You can’t hear it, and you can very rarely see it. It is a battle to the death against spam. It’s ISPs vs spammers, with some anti-spam “entities” such as Spamhaus thrown in as covert forces. You, me, and anyone who uses email to run their […]

If you’ve followed our tips to prevent your email going into spam folders but you’re still having issues, your email formatting may be to blame. In order to determine which emails are accepted by recipient servers, mailbox providers follow RFC protocol on email formatting and content. In the last number of years, in order to […]

As one of Europe’s fastest growing financial services, technology companies and e-money payment institutions, Prepaid Financial Services (PFS) trusts SMTP2GO to deliver millions of automated emails to card holders in the UK, Europe and beyond. About Prepaid Financial Services (PFS) Prepaid Financial Services (PFS) have built their success by operating as a prepaid cards & payments […]

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 […]

For the past six months, almost all of Google’s services – including Google Search, Google Maps, Google Docs, Google Drive and Google Hangouts – have experienced serious disruptions when trying to gain access from China. The biggest blow, however, has just been made to Gmail, the world’s biggest email service, which has finally been blocked […]

We have had reports that the ISP Orange, in France, has blocked the use of any external SMTP server other than their own. This is the only ISP in the world that we are currently aware of that has implemented this very strict policy. If you are using SMTP2GO, it is still worth trying to […]