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Ensuring Email Deliverability—Updates to Gmail + Yahoo

Media Cause

On February 1, 2024, Google and Yahoo will roll out new requirements, which include bulk senders authenticating their emails, making unsubscribing easy, and staying under a spam rate threshold. Low User-Reported Spam: Senders must stay under a 0.3% spam rate threshold or risk being marked as spam.

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Emailing Like a Pro: Navigating Gmail and Yahoo’s New Sender Requirements

The Modern Nonprofit

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Emailing Like a Pro: Navigating Gmail and Yahoo’s New Sender Requirements Imagine this: You’ve crafted the perfect email for your nonprofit’s big campaign, hit ‘send,’ and then… silence. Turns out, our friends at Gmail and Yahoo have switched up the game.

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Missing the Mark: Why Legitimate Emails Head Right for the Spam Folder

Byte Technology

Upon further examination the recipient discovers it got automatically dropped into their spam folder. Another type of automatic email sifting is called Bayesian Filtering, which utilizes statistical analysis to “learn” what spam looks like. To begin, follow some simple steps.

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New Google and Yahoo Standards for Email

M+R

Read time: 8 minutes Just this month, Google and Yahoo coordinated announcements of new requirements for email senders. Google and Yahoo are the two biggest providers of free email inboxes in the US. Now here’s the bad news: if you don’t get on board with the new requirements, you’re likely to see your emails going to spam.

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What actually happened: Apple Mail Privacy Protection

M+R

Since Apple Mail can be set up to work not just with Apple domains, but also with most of the major inbox providers (Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail…) this impacts a huge segment of email subscribers. To add to the confusion, different email tools are handling this change in different ways. Messages that end up in spam? Left unread.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In the last few years, Microsoft has rebuilt LinkedIn working out many of the kinks and bugs that made it frustrating to use, and has launched a suite of new tools and functionality for LinkedIn Pages , Profiles , and Groups. Gmail, Yahoo, etc. Strangely, nonprofits have been slow to embrace LinkedIn.

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Outlook.com — The New Hotmail

Tech Soup

Users of other services like Gmail or Yahoo Mail can set up a new @outlook.com address and have their other accounts forwarded. It also has better spam filtering — it keeps spam to less than 3 percent of your inbox. The new Sweep feature has tools to clean and maintain your inbox.

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