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What Is BIMI and How Does It Affect Email Deliverability?

BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification) puts your company logo directly in your customer's inbox, making your emails instantly recognizable. This builds trust, combats phishing attempts, and helps your messages stand out in a crowded inbox. Learn how BIMI works and how to easily add it to your email strategy.
What Is BIMI and How Does It Affect Email Deliverability
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How To Install and Configure Moodle (Step-by-Step Tutorial)

Ready to launch your Moodle site? Get it right from the start! This in-depth guide walks you through every step of the configuration process. We'll cover installation, basic settings, and explore setting up a custom SMTP service to ensure your essential Moodle emails (notifications, updates, etc.) always reach their destination.
How To Install and Configure Moodle
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What Is a List-Unsubscribe Header? (And How To Add It to Your Emails)

Enhance your email marketing effectiveness with the essential list-unsubscribe header. This feature is crucial for maintaining a clean mailing list and ensuring high deliverability. With the recent updates to sender requirements for Gmail and Yahoo email addresses, not including a list-unsubscribe header could lead to increased spam complaints and poor email performance. Our guide will walk you through what this header is, why it's vital for your email strategy, and how you can add it to your emails effectively
What Is a List-Unsubscribe Header? And How To Add It to Your Emails
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phpBB Email Settings and SMTP Configuration (Full Setup Guide)

Stop your phpBB emails from landing in spam. Frustrated with delayed notifications, missed welcomes, or password resets disappearing? It's time to upgrade your phpBB email setup. Ditch the default mail function and take control with custom SMTP. This guide walks you through the process, ensuring reliable delivery and protecting your forum's reputation.
phpBB Email Settings and SMTP Configuration Guide
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How To Improve eCommerce Customer Experience (8 Ways)

To succed in eCommerce today, delivering an exceptional customer experience is more critical than ever. But what does it take to stand out from the crowd and build lasting relationships with your customers? In this article, we'll explore eight proven strategies for enhancing your eCommerce customer experience, from personalizing the shopping journey and streamlining the checkout process to providing top-notch customer support and leveraging the power of transactional emails.
How To Improve eCommerce Customer Experience
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Supabase Custom SMTP and Email Configuration Guide

Adding email functionality to your Supabase app is simpler than you might think. This easy-to-follow tutorial will walk you through every step of the integration process. We'll cover configuring your email credentials, setting up Supabase Auth, and even touch on how to customize the email experience for your users.
Supabase Custom SMTP and Email Configuration Guide
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SMTP vs. API: Their Differences and When to Use Them

Choosing between SMTP and API for sending emails with SendLayer can be confusing, but it doesn't have to be. Whether you're building an app or simply need a reliable way to send transactional emails, understanding the pros and cons of both methods is crucial. This post explains the differences between SMTP and API, providing clear explanations and guidance on how to select the right option for your email needs with SendLayer.
SMTP vs API - Which is the Best Way to Send Your Email?
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Chargebee Setup and Integration Quickstart Guide

Getting started with Chargebee's billing platform can be overwhelming, but we're here to help! Discover how to configure your Chargebee account, including custom SMTP email settings, to enhance email deliverability and maintain brand consistency. Learn the ins and outs of managing customer profiles, subscriptions, and billing cycles efficiently.
Chargebee Setup and Integration Quickstart Guide
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How To Check Email Delivery Status (Delivered vs. Accepted)

Do you want to know how to check email delivery status to make sure an important message has reached the recipient? If you’re using an email delivery service with email tracking like SendLayer, you can see your email delivery status on your dashboard. However, you might be wondering what the difference between “delivered” and “accepted" status is. In this post, we’ll explain exactly what delivered and accepted status mean, and how this might affect your email deliverability.
How To Check Email Delivery Status
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PrestaShop Tutorial: How To Build an Online Store in Minutes

Want to build a flexible and scalable online store in minutes? Take a look at our PrestaShop tutorial, which takes you from installation to store launch in a few easy steps. PrestaShop is an open-source eCommerce platform that you may want to consider as an alternative to WooCommerce, Shopify, or Magento. Click through to find out more about the platform and try it out for yourself!
PrestaShop Tutorial How To Build an Online Store in Minutes
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How To Use Google Postmaster Tools To Monitor Email Deliverability

Google Postmaster Tools is a very useful tool for monitoring spam complaints, email deliverability errors, and domain and IP reputation if you're sending bulk email. Check out our easy guide to getting started with Google Postmaster Tools from adding and verifying your domain to understanding the reports and data on your dashboard.
How To Use Google Postmaster Tools to Monitor Email Deliverability
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Setting Up Drupal: Installation and Quick-Start Guide for Beginners

If you need help setting up Drupal, you're in luck! In our latest tutorial, we go through all the steps of installing Drupal and setting up your site, from configuring email to customizing the design. Whether you're deciding on a CMS or you're committed to Drupal, you're sure to find this beginner's setup guide handy.
Setting Up Drupal: Installation and Quick-Start Guide for Beginners
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How To Stop Contact Form Spam (CAPTCHA and Alternatives)

Are you sick of getting spam from the forms on your website? Don't worry - it's easy to stop contact form with a few simple steps. In this post, we look at the reasons why form spam can be so damaging and offer several easy options to combat it. Protect your domain reputation and optimize email deliverability by using anti-spam measures on your forms.
How To Stop contact Form Spam
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Getting Started With Front Customer Service Platform

Front is a customer service and communication platform that allows you to manage conversations from multiple channels in a single shared inbox. With powerful automations and collaboration features, Front can help to streamline your customer service operations. Follow our guide to learn more about Front and how to set it up so your team can start using it for customer support.
Getting Started With Front Customer Service Platform
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How To Optimize Email Content With AI (Templates & Prompts)

Do you want to optimize your transactional emails for better open and click-through rates? In this beginner's guide to AI content optimization, we consider the steps you can take to improve your transactional emails, discuss how AI can help you with the task, and offer some templates and prompts to get you started.
How To Optimize Email Content With AI (Templates & Prompts)
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Customer.io Tutorial and Marketing Automation Setup Guide

Do you want to use Customer.io to automate your marketing messages? We've put together a beginner's tutorial on getting the Customer.io platform set up for the first time. From creating your first message to setting up custom SMTP, you'll find all the information you need here to get started with Customer.io.
Customer.io Tutorial and Marketing Automation Setup Guide
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What Is an Email Blacklist? (And How To Avoid Ending Up on One)

Have you noticed a sharp drop in your email deliverability lately? Your email sending IP or domain might be on a blocklist. Find out more about what email blacklists and blocklists are, how they work, how you can avoid ending up on one, and what to do if you're listed on a blocklist.
What Is an Email Blacklist?
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How To Set Up a BigCommerce Store From Scratch

BigCommerce has earned a reputation as being one of the most flexible and scalable eCommerce platforms out there. While it's not a popular choice for beginners, with a little guidance you can easily set up a BigCommerce store and start selling in no time at all. Follow our step-by-step beginner's tutorial which will take you from signing up for BigCommerce to launching your store.
How To Set Up a BigCommerce Store From Scratch
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How to Warm Up Email Domains and Why It’s Important

If you’ve just set up a new website or you’re starting a business, it’s natural to want to kick off your marketing strategy with an email campaign. But sending promotional emails (or even transactional emails) from a brand new domain with no reputation may result in them being marked as spam. In this post, we explain exactly how to warm up a new domain for sending email and go over some other best practices to ensure your emails reach the inbox.
How to Warm Up Email Domains and Why It's Important
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How To Set Up Joomla: Installation and Tutorial for Beginners

Is thinking about how to set up Joomla making you dizzy? Joomla may not be as popular as WordPress and other content management systems, but it's fairly user friendly and very flexible. In this step-by-step tutorial, we'll walk you through setting up your first Joomla site from installing the software and setting up your email to changing templates, adding extensions, and organizing content.
How To Set Up Joomla Installation and Tutorial for Beginners