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Hi friend,
Welcome to another issue of Postmark’s monthly newsletter, “Happy Sending,” in which we bring you industry news, useful tools, and tips for sending great emails—plus the occasional update about our product and what it can do for you.
This month you’ll hear about the history of SMTP, upcoming changes to Gmail and Yahoo’s requirements for senders, Postmark client library updates, how to integrate Postmark with Nest.js, and…Lizards?
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Industry news and useful tools
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Today’s section is curated by Brian Kerr. Brian is a manager on Postmark’s Customer Success team. He loves crafting a great customer experience for Postmark’s customers, the indieweb, and starting everyday with a pot of coffee. He’d love it if you shared with him your favorite coffee roaster or RSS feed.
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Here’s what Brian recommends that you check out, and why:
A weekly task list with the Alastair Method
The new year is nearly here. Which means I’m ready to restart up my bullet journaling habit that I stopped in March of this year, with a new spin, the Alastair Method. This post from Rachel Smith is a great introduction to the journaling style.
Gmail’s AI-powered spam detection is its biggest security upgrade in years
Google quietly released new spam detection for Gmail customers last week. Their new model is now able to detect homoglyphs that are trying to trick you to hand over your PayPal details. Even better? The model is open sourced if you want to take advantage of the tech in your own app or service.
Email vs Capitalism, or, Why We Can't Have Nice Things [Video]
Did you know the last RFC for SMTP came out in 2008? In this entertaining talk (I promise!) Dylan Beattie walks through the history of SMTP, MIME, and email address validation. Even if you think you know everything about email, you’ll walk away a little more knowledgeable.
Bonus! Voice of a Star Wars Fan [Video]
A homage to Industrial Light and Magic by Hiroshi Sumi. If the Millennium Falcon is your jam, this is an amazing 20 minute video, I won’t say more.
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Words of wisdom from a Postmark customer: Patrick van Marsbergen from Infowijs |
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In this month’s customer interview we talked to Patrick van Marsbergen.
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and the work you do?
With over a decade of experience in Software Engineering and Product Development I've delivered many products to the market. Currently at Infowijs I'm an Engineering Manager to support the team's wellbeing and needs and guide the company on our (technical) roadmap.
How are you using Postmark on projects today?
We use Postmark to send all our email notifications to parents, students and teachers using our products Hoy, Brugger and Schoolwiki. With Hoy we send over a half million messages each month sending email notifications of messages and forms published through our platform.
How has Postmark helped you?
We primarily use Postmark's APIs to send email notifications with the Postmark Template system. It's a great feature for our team so we don't have to build our own template engine ourselves and less technical colleagues can make changes to the templates on the fly. Postmark also gives great insights in delivery measurements for our support team to understand if emails have or have not been delivered and why.
If you could give folks one piece of advice about how to implement and manage their email, what would it be?
Use Postmark! It's probably the best product for email sending and best bang for buck. The UI is intuitive and email sending and template management is not a hassle any longer.
We love to publish our customers’ stories. Would you like to be featured next month? Fill in this quick and extremely yellow form, and we’ll make it happen.
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Updates just for Customers
(you’re special!) ✨
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Process DSRs automatically with our new Data Removal API
Earlier this summer, our team crafted a solution for data deletion requests via our ”Help a CS friend out” Experimentation week: a new API endpoint that would make this process easier for customers and Postmark’s customer success team. With the
new Data Removal API endpoint, you can easily erase recipient data from your account and review the status of your data removal requests. When you’re looking to automate your DSR requests under GDPR, for example, this new API will come in handy. Check out our Updates page for more info, or reach out to us in support, and we can enable it for your account.
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The latest and greatest resources
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Gmail and Yahoo’s new email requirements in 2024
Google and Yahoo are turning what was once considered best practices for email authentication into mandatory requirements—and senders who don’t comply with the new requirements will start to see issues getting their emails delivered in 2024. If you want to make sure your emails keep making it to the inbox, check out our comprehensive guide to get
ready in 5 steps→
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Getting 100M+ emails delivered every month: Why Vet Tix counts on Postmark
If your business deals with a high volume of emails, you understand the challenges of managing an extensive email program, especially when wrangling your own servers. The team at Vet Tix understands that struggle. Dive into their journey with Postmark—simplifying the process for millions of emails daily. Here’s their story →
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Postmark library updates
We’ve got libraries in most popular languages to make it as easy as possible for you to add Postmark to your projects. Last month, our engineers gave our JS and PHP libraries some love. Here’s what’s new→
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Integrating Postmark with Nest.js: A Complete Guide
Speaking of the Postmark Javascript library, a member of the Postmark community, Daniel Kassahun, has published a tutorial exploring how to integrate the Postmark Javascript library with Nest.js, a Node.js framework for building server side applications.
Daniel’s tutorial teaches everything you need to know to get started using Postmark with Nest.js, including how to install the dependencies, send your first email, use Postmark templates, and even error handling. Thank you Daniel!
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Behind the scenes at Postmark
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In the past few weeks Dana, Postmark’s Head of Customer Success, has had several encounters with frogs, lizards, and other wildlife. She has been sharing her adventures with our team, many of whom find these creatures more adorable than Dana does!
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Until next time,
Happy sending 💛
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Matt | Lead Developer Relations Engineer
Postmark/ActiveCampaign
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