Unfortunately there is no means of being absolutely sure that your email messages will reach your recipients. We can do certain things like ensuring that we set SPF and DKIM DNS records but ultimately it’s best to leave bulk email sending to the experts. Particularly if you’re sending invoices or order details from your online […]
Archives for December 2016
Why doesn’t Mailchimp send to all my subscribers?
There is a common misconception that when an email doesn’t reach the recipient there is a problem with the sending system. I often get asked, in relation to Mailchimp, why Mailchimp isn’t sending to some subscribers. Mailchimp email sending isvery reliable and all your email messages will get sent. Why the message may not reach […]
How Mailchimp knows if subscribers have marked emails as spam
A question I get asked regularly in Mailchimp classes that I deliver is how Mailchimp knows if a subscriber has marked a campaign as spam. Quite simply, receiving servers alert Mailchimp when a recipient marks a Mailchimp campaign as spam or junk. Spam messages are a major problem; approximately 408 billion spam email messages are […]