Your message file size matters. Some may think it’s great to send a ton of content in one fell swoop, but most ESPs limit the size of the message you can send through their service. That’s likely because they’re sending bulk messages, so they have to keep an eye on the processing power and time it takes to send a lot of very large messages at once.
Continue reading • Anna Ward wrote in Email delivery
We know from our open rates and follow-up questions that users rely heavily on the information in the email we send every Monday morning with statistics of selected servers. This weekly digest emails have always been useful, but we knew they could be better. So starting next week, you’ll see a new design and some additional information to help you manage your account better.
Continue reading • Rian van der Merwe wrote in Product news
In the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen multiple customers report that their messages to Gmail/GSuite recipients are suddenly delayed, ending up in the spam folder, or just missing entirely.
Google publicly confirms they've made widespread changes to substantially increase spam blocking, which were rolled out at the end of January. I've been personally tracking and testing these cases affected by the changes, and here’s what I know so far.
Continue reading • Anna Ward wrote in Email delivery
Like many cloud developers, I have been creating several new apps using Python. The beauty of Python is in its visual simplicity and the many powerful libraries that abstract essential functions like JSON encoding and sending HTTP requests. Postmark's API allows us to send emails with very few lines of code, and it also allows us to track the status of those email operations. In this blog post, I'll be showing the steps to take to get that going.
Continue reading • Martyn Davies wrote in Email delivery
A few months ago we started a journey to improve everything about Postmark’s email templates. We did a bunch of calls with customers to understand exactly how templates are being used, and what your biggest pain points are. We started our improvements with some quick wins: a better page layout, the ability to manage template aliases from the UI, and an easy way to find the template you’re looking for.
Those improvements all laid the groundwork for our first major change to templates, which we’re happy to announce today.
Continue reading • Rian van der Merwe wrote in Product news
