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Understanding Email Authentication

Tue, Sep 26, 2023 - 12:02 PM

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Email Sending Reputation

In an era dominated by digital communication, email has become the backbone of political communication, organizing, and fundraising. But it has also become a prime channel for bad actors. Email Service Providers (ESP's) like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, et al, have responded with tools to weed out

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Understanding Email Sending Reputation

Tue, Sep 26, 2023 - 11:14 AM

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Email Sending Reputation

Email remains a vital tool in political campaigns for correspondence, organizing and fundraising. But by some estimates, nearly 90% of all email is unwanted SPAM email. Email service providers (ESPs) like Google (Gmail), Microsoft (Hotmail), Yahoo, et al are constantly trying to filter out this unwanted

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Spam trigger-words to avoid

Wed, Feb 8, 2023 - 10:37 AM

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There are a lot of reasons that contribute to an email being marked as spam. We can generally divide these into technical things that the technology should address and the non-technical things that fall more on the sender.

Assuming you are using an email system


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Blacklists and Spamtraps and how to avoid them

Tue, May 25, 2021 - 01:40 PM

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What are spam traps?

Spam traps are fake or historical email addresses that are used by Email Service Providers (ESPs) and blacklist providers to identify bad email senders.

A spam trap is essentially just an email address but it's not owned by a real person. Because it's not a legitimately-owned

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About Gmail's Promotion Tab

Wed, May 22, 2019 - 08:20 AM

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gmail tabs

At this point, Google has nearly 30% of the personal email market. That's a lot! Several years ago, in an attempt to reduce complaints about all the marketing email, Gmail introduced tabs for Social, Promotions, and Primary (the inbox). And of course, they still have


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The Basics of Writing an Email

Mon, Jun 3, 2013 - 03:34 PM

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We see a lot of emails here.  We've written quite a few too.  If you are just getting started, here are some basic tips to get started. 

Make a single ask.  It is almost never a good idea to ask for more than one thing at a time in a

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Writing Effective Emails Checklist

Thu, Apr 26, 2012 - 05:29 PM

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New Organizing Institute has a basic but decent checklist of effective email writing. It covers basic process and techniques. What I liked about it was that its simple and to-the-point and doesn't attempt to make email more complicated than it really is.

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