Re: [mailop] Anyone seen this "email warmup" pattern?

2021-08-28 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
>> I've been catching my customers left and right lately signing up for >> some email warmup service. > > OK, I see I've been completely out of touch with that segment of the industry. Michael, another, somewhat related and somewhat new service model is the one like "MailShake", which gives

Re: [mailop] Anyone seen this "email warmup" pattern?

2021-08-28 Thread Michael Rathbun via mailop
On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 12:35:54 -0500, Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote: >However, I have reason to suspect Active Campaign may be related. >Roughly one day prior to the relevant outbound events, users who sign up >for this begin receiving a bunch of emails from the domains that they'll >later

Re: [mailop] Anyone seen this "email warmup" pattern?

2021-08-28 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
I take this to mean that you know they are signing up, but do not know what they are signing up to? Aye. I feel like if I track it down it might lead to more insight into how they operate, and potentially some of that might lead to more ways to proactively block them. They obviously know I'm

Re: [mailop] Anyone seen this "email warmup" pattern?

2021-08-28 Thread Michael Rathbun via mailop
On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 09:46:59 -0500, Al Iverson via mailop wrote: >Yes, there are whispers of this in the deliverability world. Good >people always recommend against doing this because it's scummy and >unethical and even if it works today, it's not going to work tomorrow. >I am absolutely certain

Re: [mailop] Anyone seen this "email warmup" pattern?

2021-08-28 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 2:38 AM Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote: > > I've been catching my customers left and right lately signing up for > some email warmup service. I don't know what it is. What they do is they > take SMTP credentials, payment, and then supposedly send a bunch of > random

Re: [mailop] Anyone seen this "email warmup" pattern?

2021-08-28 Thread Michael Rathbun via mailop
On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 02:29:17 -0500, Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote: >I've been catching my customers left and right lately signing up for >some email warmup service. OK, I see I've been completely out of touch with that segment of the industry. The process of attempting to game reputation

Re: [mailop] Anyone seen this "email warmup" pattern?

2021-08-28 Thread Michael Rathbun via mailop
On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 02:29:17 -0500, Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote: >I've been catching my customers left and right lately signing up for >some email warmup service. I don't know what it is. I take this to mean that you know they are signing up, but do not know what they are signing up to?

[mailop] Anyone seen this "email warmup" pattern?

2021-08-28 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
I've been catching my customers left and right lately signing up for some email warmup service. I don't know what it is. What they do is they take SMTP credentials, payment, and then supposedly send a bunch of random emails hosted at other providers and mark them as not spam. I'm catching them