I’m pleased to announce that the latest upgrade to our hosting account control panel software adds the option of DKIM signing for outgoing email. DKIM is a technical method by which outgoing email sent via your hosting account is digitally signed, recipient email servers can then check this signature to determine whether an individual email
MX Records
Mail Exchanger records (MX records) specify which mail server is responsible for the email of a particular domain. You may well be pleased to know that most customers will never have to touch them! However if you are putting in place a more complex setup, wishing to direct your incoming email to, for example, your
Email Authentication
The email authentication section of the hosting account control panel is something of a hidden gem. Email authentication is important as it addresses one of the major problems related to email sending technology, allowing recipient systems to verify whether a message has actually been sent by the domain in the ‘from’ field. Blackfoot provides the
Simple tips to avoid junk email
Spam is unfortunately a fact of life on the internet, in July 2011 around 78% of all email consisted of junk messages. This figure has amazingly in the past been as high as 90% Whilst there are a number of clever technical measures (such as ‘RFC-compliant HELO checking’) going on behind the scenes at the
Back to basics - Email
Email Clients ========== Email communication is one of the inevitable modes of communication in today’s world. There are different ways to send and receive emails. You can send / receive emails either using webmail which is provided with your hosting account or via an email client. If you would like to use an email client
