IP Blacklisting Still Threatens Hosting Providers in 2025 — Here’s How to Stop It
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IP Blacklisting: A Persistent Problem for Hosting Providers in 2025 Even in 2025, IP blacklisting remains one of the most common—and costly—issues facing web hosting providers. Every day, hosting companies …
Scaling Your Startup: How to Ensure Your Email Infrastructure Can Keep Up with Growth
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For startups, rapid growth is the dream. But as your user base expands and email volume surges, your email infrastructure can quickly become a bottleneck. Sending transactional emails, onboarding new …
The Essential Guide to Transactional Emails for SaaS Companies
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In the world of SaaS, where customer experience reigns supreme, transactional emails are the unsung heroes working tirelessly behind the scenes. These automated emails, triggered by specific user actions or …
Troubleshooting Email Deliverability: Common Issues and How to Fix Them
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Emails are vital for modern businesses to connect with customers, send critical updates, and drive conversions. Yet, ensuring these emails successfully reach the inbox can sometimes feel like navigating a …
Uber’s Leaky Backend: How Trip Data Ended Up on Google—and Why It Still Matters
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In early 2023, a significant privacy lapse was discovered within Uber’s platform: sensitive user and trip data had been indexed by Google, exposing customer names, pick-up/drop-off coordinates, and driver details …
Email Traffic Trends Reflect the Ongoing Shift in Work and Communication
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In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom emerged as the unlikely poster child for remote communication, riding a wave of global lockdowns and remote work mandates. But what …
How Global Crises Impact Email Traffic—and What Hosting Providers Can Do About It
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In 2020, COVID-19 disrupted nearly every aspect of life, including the world of email. At the time, MailChannels observed a sharp increase in global email traffic—especially transactional and outbound messages—as …
What bounce codes reveal about your email delivery—and how to interpret them. When your email fails to deliver, the server doesn’t just reject it—it tells you why. That reason is …
Is Consent Required for Spam Filtering? A GDPR Perspective for Hosts and ESPs
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Introduction Spam filtering is a critical defense against outbound abuse, phishing, and account compromise. But under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), any operation involving personal data must have a …
How to Filter Emails Without Violating Privacy: A GDPR-Safe Approach for Hosts and ESPs
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Introduction Filtering outbound email is essential for stopping spam, phishing, and abuse. But if your filtering practices inspect message content or metadata, are you violating your users’ privacy? In a …