Why is your inbox flooded with non-delivery reports for campaigns you never launched? Your email tool’s dashboard shows zero sends. Yet NDRs have been piling up since yesterday. This phenomenon…
Hours after a send, a handful of recipients click “junk mail.” That action doesn’t stay in their inbox: mailbox providers forward it to the sender enrolled in the right program.…
Verifying emails without passwords is a critical point for both individuals and businesses, especially in the current context of cybersecurity and personal data protection. The traditional method of securing accounts…
CaptainVerify verified more than 126 million email addresses in 2025. About 2.5% of that volume sits on a catch-all domain. Restricted to addresses hosted on a company domain, outside the…
Adding a DMARC record to the DNS zone doesn’t finish the job: the record does nothing until someone reads the reports it generates every day. Domain monitoring refers to this…
When you build an email marketing strategy or work on your website’s user experience, you’ve probably encountered this HTML tag: target=”_blank”. Well-known among developers, it is used to open hyperlinks…
After discussing the image format for email campaigns in a previous article, we’re returning to this topic with the equally important subject of image size. Why? Simply because an email…
In email marketing, we know that a message that doesn’t reach the recipient’s inbox loses its value, regardless of its content or design. This is where the Postmaster comes into…
Online phishing, which aims to steal the confidential information of an individual through emails or false web pages, is a real scourge. It is a common tactic that it is…
An unknown email address lands in your inbox. A prospect fills out your contact form, providing only their email address. A fraud signal is triggered during an online payment. In…
Today, a large majority of visits to websites are made via smartphone, and the same goes for the consultation of emails. An observation that allows us to understand why it…
At what bounce rate does an emailing platform actually stop sending a campaign? The acceptable bounce rate doesn’t fit into the 2% figure that circulates on every blog: it changes…
Although we extensively use social media today, email remains a predominantly used channel, especially for establishing first contact. And because the first impression is crucial, it’s important to know how…
10 weeks. That’s how long it took Apple to announce, in mid-June 2026, a domain change for Hide My Email, then reverse it on August 24, 2026, after pushback from…
The generation of leads is a process aimed at attracting visitors and prospects interested in your business and its products/services, in order to convert them to customers. An increasingly used…
Why does Gmail reject an email when both SPF and DKIM pass? Your email tool’s dashboard shows “sent.” Some of your Gmail recipients still never receive anything. The explanation lies…
It is not because your proposal is enticing, that your content is good, that your email will necessarily be well received, and this in every sense of the word. Sometimes…
After the email validation improves inbox placement, we stay here in the theme, but this time approaching in more detail the services which precisely offer to do so. If the…
Have you refined and tested your emails? Are you ready to send them? Not so quickly, there is still a crucial task to be forgotten, namely to validate the targeted…
A line in your DMARC report can show spf=fail even when the domain is still protected and the message still landed in the inbox. For each sending source, an aggregate…
Occasionally appearing in our inboxes or contact lists, the domain ymail.com often intrigues. Many question its validity or fear fraud, as this suffix is much less common than the traditional…
Have you sent an email and still haven’t received a response? It might be time to send a follow-up email. Just like the email presentation discussed recently, the follow-up message…
The sender reputation is the key in email marketing warfare. You may have impeccable content and irresistible offers, but it won’t matter much if your messages never reach your recipients’…
Should you change your signup form because Chrome can now confirm a Gmail address in one click? On July 8, 2026, Google opened the origin trial for a new protocol,…
Deliverability is crucial in an email campaign. No matter how much you will refine all the creation of your message, the main purpose of the latter is that it can…
After addressing the subject of the checklist before sending an email, it is natural to talk about the preview of email since that is just part of the tests to…
In marketing, above all sending email, a small control list is essential. This will allow you in particular to analyze different crucial elements of the message sent in order to…
Update, August 25, 2026: Apple has walked back part of this announcement. Hide My Email addresses will stay on icloud.com after all; only Sign in with Apple is moving to…
We covered the subject of BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification) in a previous article. Before it can be displayed correctly in the inbox, this logo must meet several requirements.…
Does your _dmarc TXT record still contain a pct=50 tag? It has served no purpose since May 20, 2026. On that date, the IETF published DMARCbis as three RFCs: RFC…
Although we have already talked about the pre-header on the strategy and optimization plan, we invite you today to approach the subject of the header. Indeed, behind this simple line…
The generation of leads is not a subject to take lightly. This is even an essential point for the development of a business and for the regular growth of its…
Common scenario: You send an email campaign to invite your clients to a webinar, a flash sale, or an exclusive event. They are interested, but among other emails, daily life,…
We have already seen it in a previous article, it is crucial to build and keep clean diffusion lists. Indeed, one of the main reasons for a weak king after…
Yet the contact list hasn’t changed in six months, and the bounce rate keeps climbing anyway. Plenty of email marketers have been living this scenario since late 2025: deliverability drops…
Warm-up is essential for emails sent from a new IP and/or a new domain name. Instead of a massive cold sending, it is better to start small and then tend…
Open rates are no longer a safe baseline. On April 14, 2026, the CNIL published its recommendation on tracking pixels. Deliberation No. 2026-042 of March 12, 2026 classifies open-tracking pixels…
The management of unwanted emails is a headache for many. Gmail, known for its innovations in email management, seems to be preparing a new feature called Shielded Email. This innovation…
Bimi is an emerging standard for email authentication. A more than useful standard for marketing experts, in a world where the phishing and online scams keep growing. Among its various…
Everyone knows emojis 🙂, these small icons based on unicode characters, allowing to transcribe images, emotions and symbols in a graphic way. More and more popular in emails, they are…
Collect email addresses, yes, but in the right way. Developing a healthy distribution list cannot be improvised. How to collect a maximum of contacts without infringing the privacy of your…
You’re working the register on a Saturday afternoon. A regular customer pays, you slip them a newsletter signup card, and they scribble down their address between the next two customers…
Easy to use and inexpensive, emailing is an excellent communication tool which, when used well, allows you to make itself known, to quickly transform prospects into customers, to establish a…
Gmail continues to innovate to protect its users. Recently, Google announced its support for the Common Mark Certificate (CMC), a new type of BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification) certificate.…
Your campaigns are landing in spam and your email platform says everything is fine? That’s one of the most frustrating situations for an email marketer: deliverability shows 98%, open rate…
Forced sale, cold and impersonal emails are no longer relevant. In a world where messages arrive every day by dozen in their reception box, consumers want real, conviviality, personalization and…
The rules for sending emails are of paramount importance to ensure the successful delivery of messages to users’ inboxes. Orange has recently revised its requirements for senders, aligning itself with…
The thresholds have been public since February 2024: Gmail’s sender guidelines set a hard requirement at 0.3% spam complaints, and most platforms consider a hard bounce rate above 2% per…
The silences after a first exchange can sometimes seem endless. Yet, a simple follow-up email can reignite a discussion, unblock a situation, or even turn a hesitant prospect into an…
Your campaign just went out. 400,000 emails sent, delivery rate reported by your ESP: 98.2%. Three days later, your CMO opens the report: open rate has collapsed to 8% compared…