“There are few growth levers that could allow a single person to grow a startup from $0 to $1M ARR in months. There are fewer that could be done with nothing but an internet connection and a laptop—and virtually no budget. Cold outbound is one such lever.” za-zu.com/blog/playbook
Gmail hack bypasses passwords and 2FA, targets Chrome and Edge, used on specific accounts, requires OS level compromise, most likely sponsored by North Korea www-forbes-com.cdn.ampprojec…#Gmail#infosec#Security
And multi-host support has just been merged into Lightmeter Control Center after more than two years in the backlog 😊 Soon you can monitor many mailservers from a single Lightmeter instance #Postfix#SMTP
Spam blacklisting is out of control, says @hackernews. Lightmeter to the rescue!:
✅ Monitoring of >100 RBLs
✅ Show blocked mail
✅ Advice on delisting
✅ Soon: customize RBLs checked
news.ycombinator.com/item?id…#mailops#rbls
We had a great talk with Dutch hosting company CloudCat.nl and are happy to see Lightmeter supporting them in enabling high-deliverability hosted email for non-profit and other organisations in the Netherlands 🐱❤️
Interview by the EC's NGI about the challenges facing email, and how Lightmeter is helping: "When hosting email is as easy as hosting WordPress, then everyone can keep their private communications in a trustworthy place" #decentralized#dataSovereignty
Lightmeter monitors email servers to help fix message delivery problems, by reading server logs and automatically notifying technicians. 💡
With support from @NgiZero @NgiPointer and #TETRA trainings and mentoring.
Sam Tuke has more on @LightmeterIO
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Did you know that email greylisting can be applied at five different stages of delivery & processing? Today's new knowledgebase article explains which produces the fewest false positives #Greylisting#SMTP#AntiSpamlightmeter.io/knowledgebase/…
Behind every email is a trail of Delivery Status Notification (DSN) codes, recording success or failure. But the terms are tormenting: is DSN just a code, a message, an "Enhanced code" (ESC), or all of the above? Our new dictionary reveals all lightmeter.io/knowledgebase/…#smtp
Turns out 3m indie servers and 1m admins are good at keeping messages flowing. Ask your nearest email admin (don't ask Facebook) #resilience#facebookdown
When's the last time your mailboxes were down 5 hours? Time to show some love for ~1 million email admins who keep our inboxes flowing 24/7/365 😇 #facebookdown#smtp#linux
If WhatsApp infrastructure were owned by users, not Facebook, then #FacebookDown could only affect one household at a time. Communicating with family and work is too important to be the job of one company. Decentralize now! #EmailFTW
Lightmeter 1.9 released, introducing a new peer network for large-scale collaboration. How much better would email be if the servers that hosted them worked together instead of against each other? Let's find out 🤝
lightmeter.io/lightmeter-1-9…
Coming soon to Lightmeter: crowdsourced #mailserver automation - announcing the introduction of a new automated peer network, for improving mailserver security and performance lightmeter.io/coming-soon-cr…#Postfix#SMTP
Spam filtering is apparently now illegal in Texas. Senders who are blocked can sue for $10/msg up to $25K/day 🤯 It's supposed to protect freedom of speech 🧐 Via J.Levine/Mailop. #AntiSpam#Censorshipblog.ericgoldman.org/archive…