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Proof: DKIM and SenderID Improve Delivery

Most of you know Postmark as a tool to send your transactional emails and track delivery. What many people don’t know is that a big part of our service is troubleshooting actual delivery problems with customers. We have an excellent infrastructure and a fantastic reputation with the ISPs. While that gets most emails delivered, we’ve learned that even the slightest content issue can send your email to bulk. Here is a great example from a recent review with a customer.

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Sending from a “no-reply” is no good

When you are sending email from a web app, it is sometimes thought that people should not reply to certain emails. For instance, you are sending a comment notification but replying to the email will not reply to the comment on the site, it will just bounce or flow into some blackhole. The usual idea is to create a “no reply” address that does not exist.

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Timezone support, sender signature redesign and more

Our code magicians rolled out an update today which adds probably one of the most requested features to date: timezone support. To add your timezone, just go to your account settings, set the dropdown to your local timezone, and gone are the days of confusing dates on your activity pages.

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Moving the API to Amazon EC2

While working on Postmark and dealing with everyday small improvements we noticed we needed to take greater steps to keep it up with the demand. The volume of emails delivered by Postmark is growing from week to week and we’re thankful for it. It keeps us in shape; we have to keep up with new technologies so we can provide best service for our customers. We recently introduced several changes under the hood of Postmark – this article is on changes affecting the Postmark API.

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