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Dustin R asked:


I want to e-mail someone but I want to see if and when they actually open it. I have a Hotmail e-mail account but also have a Yahoo e-mail account. Just wondering if there is a way to do that. Also have access to a Outlook e-mail address.

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Mitchell Harper asked:


Last week Eddie and Rodney were attempting to send an email to a Hotmail account we’ve setup to make sure our emails get to the intended recipients without any problems.

Our mail server was reporting that the emails were being delivered, however we couldn’t see them in our Hotmail account. The emails weren’t bouncing back and they weren’t appearing in the junk mail folder. Puzzling to say the least.

If you’ve ever been in a situation like this with one of the big email providers including Hotmail, GMail, Yahoo and AOL then you know it’s frustrating and confusing to those of us who send emails regularly.

We have over 95,000 people on our mailing list and after a quick look at the list I noticed a large majority of our subscribers use one of the big email providers mentioned above. If our newsletter failed to get into the inbox of all of these people we’d probably only reach 10,000 - 20,000 subscribers (between 10% and 20% of our total subscribers); hardly what we want.

Getting Your Email There on Time

What would be some of the reasons why your email might not reach the intended recipient? The first problem are you subscribers, believe it or not.

How many times have you personally signed up for a mailing list (even using double opt-in) and then clicked the “Mark as Spam” button in your email client because you couldn’t remember when you in-fact did sign up? I know I’ve done this on many occasions.

This hurts companies who send legitimate emails, because if enough recipients mark their emails as spam, the big email providers take notice and ban their mail server. This process is called black listing and once your mail server’s black listed it’s extremely difficult to get off the list. More on that later.

Next up there’s the spam algorithms and other checks that mail servers employ. AOL for example used to implement a technique called rate limiting whereby they would only accept a certain amount of emails from a mail server at a time - send more than you’re allowed to and you’re considered a spammer and were black listed.

All of the big email providers have their own proprietary algorithms for checking and deal with email spam. The good news is that a lot of the things the algorithms check for are easy to avoid.

Take a look an article Eddie wrote called “Avoiding the Spam Filters and Other Email Marketing Tips”. Follow the steps he talks about in the article and you’ll improve the chance of your email getting through significantly.

More Ways to Avoid the Spam Filters

After doing some research using our good friend Google, we’ve put together a list of things you can do to reduce the chance of your email being marked as spam and/or never reaching the intended recipient in the first place:

* Make sure your list only contains double opt-in subscribers. Sure your list won’t be as big as it would if you didn’t require opt-in confirmation, but it will be safer, more valid and subscribers will be less likely to flag your emails as spam or complain to their email provider. * Using the link to Eddie’s article above, do your absolute best to make sure your email doesn’t look like spam. The spam filters are smart, and for everything it finds in your email that looks like spam it gives you one point. When you get to a certain number of points your email is rejected, so the less spam points the better. * Check to see if your mail server has already been blacklisted. You want to check your ISP’s mail server or the mail server of your web host. To see the IP address of the server sending your emails just send an email through your mail server to yourself and view the headers of the email in your email client.

The last received line in the headers will contain the IP address of your ISP or web hosts mail server through which your email was sent. For example, you might see 3 received lines in the header, like this:

Received: mail.somehost.com Received: 220.403.8.65 Received: 201.56.88.31

In the example above the IP address of your mail server would be 201.56.88.31

Once you’ve found your mail server’s IP address read this helpful article. It lists the different sites you can check to see if your mail server has been blacklisted. * Check with the postmaster services of the big email companies to see why they are rejecting your emails. If you don’t know what a postmaster is, here’s Google’s definition:

A special type of user responsible for tracking failed mail delivery. A post-master is responsible for following up on queries from users and other postmasters. Internet standards require that the postmaster account be valid at every domain.

AOL’s postmaster is http://postmaster.aol.com/ and Hotmail’s is http://postmaster.hotmail.com/. You can find postmaster details for other email services with a quick search on Google.

One thing to remember about postmaster services is that they make it difficult to get your email through. The theory is that the harder they make it, the less effort spammers will give, thus stopping the majority of them from trying. * You may also want to use one of the email accreditation services available, such as SPF (sender policy framework) records for your mailer or DomainKeys. You can also look at services such as SuretyMail to help improve the deliverability of your emails, particularly if you’re trying to send millions of emails per month.

I won’t go into too much detail, but SPF is a way to identify and reject forged addresses in the return path of an email, which is a common technique spammers use to send email. DomainKeys is an email authentication system that was developed at Yahoo. It was designed to verify the name server being used by someone sending bulk email. * Finally, you should educate your subscribers. Immediately after they join your mailing list you should give them a series of steps to white list your email address. White listing is a way of telling their email client to allow all emails from you into their inbox.

Each big email provider has different ways of allowing subscribers to white list email addresses, the most common being to add them to their address book or contacts. For more on white listing see this article on Wikipedia.

Conclusion

Although there’s no fail-safe way to absolutely guarantee all of the emails you send will reach the intended recipients, the tips in this article are an excellent place to start. Email deliverability is a big concern for most businesses (including us) and can mean the difference between a profitable email campaign and one that fails miserably.



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mandfiz asked:

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ToastyDelights asked:


I want to e mail my friend from my email on my ipod but he doesnt go on his hotmail he only goes on his facebook inbox. How can i e mail his from hotmail to facebook?

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nuclearone asked:


When i messaged the seller through the “Contact Seller” and “Ask the seller” options on Ebay?

Is this normal to receive an email reply from the seller through hotmail? I only received a reply in hotmail, didn’t get an ebay reply.

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Oliver K asked:


I was just wondering if there was a app i could get off the itunes app store for instant messenging on my ipod touch i want to use my windows live hotmail account.

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skgudrl asked:

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Afonin, Oleg asked:


If you type a lot and are using Microsoft Word as your text processor, you’ve made the right choice. Microsoft Word is arguably the most powerful, feature-rich and handy to use by complete beginners and advanced professionals altogether. It has unparalleled strengths in creating, formatting and modifying all types of documents, from simple memos to complex reports. When you save a document in one version of Microsoft Word, it can usually be opened in a different version without problems.

But what if the document you’ve spent so much time on just disappears? What can happen to it? First and most possible, you can simply delete it yourself by an accident. You might think that this would never happen to you because there is the Windows Recycle Bin, and even if it’s accidentally emptied, you’ll just go to the Internet and get a free undelete utility. Well, it does not work this way…

Here’s what happened to my wife a couple of weeks ago. She was working on a chapter for her Ph.D. thesis, and sent it to a professor for review. Usually, she gets back a document with embedded comments by email. She saves an attachment from the email, overwriting the old one, and deletes it from her Hotmail account. But this time, things went the wrong way. She received her chapter by email and replaced the old document with the new one, only to find out that her supervisor got a copy of the old one! She opened the Recycle Bin and found out that the document was never deleted but instead, it was replaced, so it wasn’t even in the Recycle Bin. She tried to find an email that she had sent earlier, but Hotmail does not store sent messages. She asked me to do something to recover the document, and I downloaded a couple of free undelete programs, only to find that there were several dozens of deleted documents with that same name. So, I failed to recover the most recent revisions.

This story did have a happy ending, as my wife’s supervisor discovered the latest version of the document on her computer. But one thing that I learned from this story was never to rely on the Recycle Bin and free data recovery tools. To prevent this kind of things from happening, I decided to look for commercial alternatives.

I quickly discovered that there are many data recovery offers on the market. Most products mention recovering deleted or corrupted files and documents, and some tools promise recovery of files even from crashed or damaged hard drives. There are basically two types of data recovery products. They are different in how they find the lost files, and what they do to recover them. Simpler products, such as those free undelete utilities that I tried in my quest, deal with the file system. They simply scan the file system looking for records of files that are marked “deleted”, and clear the mark. This is a fast and easy way to recover lost files, and it works sometimes, especially if you deleted a file just a minute ago.

These products, as I discovered from my own experience, fail to do their job if you have a complex case or if you are recovering a failed hard drive, or if the file system is damaged. If your document has been deleted some time ago or overwritten with another file, chances of successful recovery using these tools are slim.

The other type of products deals with your hard drive directly instead of scanning the file system, but such products are slow and expensive. I also found them extremely complex to use because they don’t show the names of the deleted documents, let alone their content. These tools don’t have access to the file system, and are unaware of the files’ names, showing documents as “document_001.doc” at best, but more likely you’ll see something like “~ocume1″ instead of a proper name.

Then I found DiskInternals Word Recovery. It does an amazing thing by combining the best of the other data recovery products, while offering unprecedented efficiency dealing specifically with Microsoft Word documents such as .DOC and .RTF. It scans the file system and learns about the files that were deleted the way the free undelete tools do. Then, it goes further and scans the hard drive directly to locate Microsoft Word documents that are not shown in the file system. It uses a list of file signatures to detect the beginning and end of Microsoft Word documents, and extracts their contents and metadata on the fly. This method is said to work even if your hard drive is half dead!

DiskInternals Word Recovery synchronizes the results obtained with the file system scan with the results obtained by accessing the hard disk directly, presenting the most complete list of recoverable Word documents along with their file names, metadata and contents, and yields the best ratio of recoverability.

If I wanted to get the latest version of any Word document, I would simply use “On the Fly” filters that allow to only display files with specific title, written by specific author, or the files that contain certain text, are of a certain size, or are last saved on a specific date. The free version of DiskInternals Word Recovery allows full file preview to ensure you recover exactly what you want, and that you can recover the document in full with no garbage or missing parts.

DiskInternals Word Recovery if not free, but I for one am done with the free recovery tools. You can download and try an evaluation version for free from www.diskinternals.com, and only purchase if you see that DiskInternals Word Recovery does indeed deliver what others just offer: the complete recovery of your lost Microsoft Word documents.



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