Author Archives: Chris Lang

DMARC – The New Spam Filter

New DMARC Authentication system looks to bring SPF and DKIM together under one system, and it’s supported by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and PayPal

Cnet says AOL, Bank of America, Fidelity Investments, American Greetings, LinkedIn, and e-mail security providers Agari, Cloudmark, eCert, Return Path, and Trusted Domain Project.
To me this sounds like great news for us all, [...]

Email Delivery Jedi On Google+

UPDATE: Niche-ing out my sites now on G+.
First up is my WordPress, Website Security and Email Delivery site.
https://plus.google.com/b/113198487085205492763/
While I love G+ biz pages, I am looking forward to better marketing tools soon.
Cool page, but how do I convert followers there to where I really want to drive my traffic which is here?
http://emaildeliveryjedi.com/ … ?
There really [...]

Facebook Email Invites

Facebook Email by invite only, non friends are blocked by default and more…
Zuckerberg says “But it’s not email…”

“It’s not e-mail. It handles e-mail in addition to Facebook messages, and Facebook IM, and other IM and SMS and all the other different ways that you want to communicate,” Zuckerberg said. “It’s true, people are going to [...]

Facebook Email Inbox – New Delivery Nightmare?

A Facebook email delivery process makes me shiver even in sunny Arizona, here’s why….
Before you label this as Facebook bashing and bounce, I want to make it clear this is about email delivery, it has nothing to do with Facebook, this is about Getting your email to the Inbox.
With TechCrunch’s Friday rumor that Facebook will [...]

How To Screw Up Your Email Delivery

How To Screw Up Your Email Delivery, confuse your subscribers and get stuck in spam filters in one quick email or less
I do a lot of local speaking here in Phoenix where we have decided to settle for now.
So I get a lot of email from the MeetUp groups I participate in. But today [...]

Conficker Worm Results In Spam Filters Cranked To All Time High

Now that Conficker is delivering it’s payload of spam, spam filters have been cranked up to their highest notch and email delivery is at an all time low, at least for me
After consulting my top contacts in the world of Internet security, spam filtering and network spam filtering appliances I can say without a doubt [...]

The New Gmail Spam Filter

The Gmail new spam filter is really Google Friend Connect, disguised as a friends list the levels of permission now available in Gmail is a very effective spam filter.
This is an excerpt from my social marketing members only site. This is the kind of thinking and leading edge use of GFC you will find there.
This [...]

Gmail Breaks AWeber Tracking Links

AWeber links are breaking in Gmail due to an unknown line break
The reason I caught this was one of my subscribers replied to my email on an unrealted issue after I sent an email to my Google Friend Connect list with a new update on what Google is really doing.

UPDATE!
Just got off the phone with [...]

Facebook Blocked as Phishing Site in Firefox and Chrome

Facebook listed as a phishing site. Why?
The following domain is now listed as a phishing site by Google chrome and Firefox. http://fbcdn.net

UPDATE:Just in, TechCrunch just reported that Safari is now listing Facebook as a suspicious site too. You can read their article in the trackback in comments where they linked to this artilce. (Cheers! [...]

Microsoft IE 7 Anti Phishing Filter – Is Internet Explorer Blocking Your Site?

Microsoft Anti Phishing Filter in Internet Explorer 7 Can Display False Positive Warnings. Here is how you can tell if you are being blocked by a Internet Explorer Anti Phishing False Positive Warning
In a further effort to help legitimate businesses, here is how you can tell you have a Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or 8 [...]