Deliverability Postmortems: Learning From Incidents
The incident is over, placement recovered, and the pressure to move on is enormous. The blameless postmortem practice that converts each incident into prevention.
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Transactional Latency: Measuring Time-to-Inbox
For OTPs and password resets, seconds are the metric. Where latency hides in the sending path, how to measure time-to-inbox honestly, and what budgets to hold.
The Annual Deliverability Audit: A January Checklist
January is the quiet window between peak seasons. The full-stack audit that catches drift in authentication, DNS, list hygiene, and monitoring before it costs mail.
Building a Deliverability Monitoring Stack
Postmaster Tools, SNDS, FBLs, DMARC reports, TLS-RPT, bounce logs, engagement data: the full observability stack, what each layer catches, and the alerts worth paging on.
Seed Testing and Inbox Placement: What the Numbers Really Measure
Seed lists promise a number for the question every sender asks: inbox or spam folder? What placement tests measure, where they systematically mislead, and how to use them.
TLS-RPT: The Reporting Layer Your MTA-STS Deployment Is Missing
TLS-RPT delivers daily JSON reports on every failed TLS negotiation to your domain. The record, the report format, and how to turn failures into fixes.
Parsing DMARC Aggregate Reports: From Raw XML to Decisions
RUA reports arrive as gzipped XML that nobody reads by hand. The report anatomy, a working parsing pipeline, and how to interpret the sources you will find.
Postmaster Tools vs. SNDS: Reading Gmail and Microsoft Reputation Data
Gmail Postmaster Tools and Microsoft SNDS report sender reputation in fundamentally different ways. How to read both dashboards and act on what they actually show.
Deliverability Incident Response: A Playbook for the First 4 Hours
When email reputation collapses, the first 4 hours determine the recovery timeline. Triage, containment, communication the operational playbook teams actually need.