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HTTP Crash Course
HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, and it’s a mechanism used to transfer data across the internet between clients (computers, laptops, phones, etc.) and servers.
Mailgun Community
• 5 min read
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What is Transactional Email? The Basics
Transactional emails are something that anybody with an email address has received at least once in their life. However, not everyone understands what they are, how they are used, and how they should be structured within your email strategy.
Mailgun Team
• 4 min read
- What's new
Inbox Placement - Delivery Made Simple
In case you missed it, we publicly launched Inbox Placement! If you remember our post from a few months ago announcing the launch of the beta, we discussed how it works and how it helps predict deliverability problems and how it can better your email program.
Jorge Miramontes
• 4 min read
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Send Your Emails at the Perfect Time with Send Time Optimization
STO uses machine learning to determine the best time to deliver a message to each recipient, at the moment when it’s most likely to be seen and read.
Chris Farmer
• 3 min read
- Best Practices
Golang’s Superior Cache Solution to Memcached and Redis
To combat this concurrent work, you would need a system to synchronize fetching or rendering of the data. Fortunately, there is a golang library called groupcache which can be used to resolve the thundering herd issue and improve on the remote cache implications mentioned above.
Derrick Wippler
• 10 min read
- What's new
What we've been up to: Mailgun's 2019 Year in Review
2019 has been a landmark year for Mailgun, so we wanted to take a moment and reflect on what the year has brought us and preview some things to look forward to in 2020! This year we launched new products, redesigned our control panel UI, and had a few other exciting changes. Read on for a quick overview of 2019.
Nick Lafferty
• 3 min read
- Best Practices
The Best Time to Send Holiday Emails - Investigated
First off, there is no one size fits all solution to the best time to send holiday emails. A lot of your email sending success is going to hinge on the composition of your email list. Even then, you can't send an email to an entire email list that will land at the top of the inbox for everyone.
Natalie Hays
• 4 min read
- What's new
Sending to the Wrong Segment - Misfit Email Series
Every once in a while, something happens, and they may end up sending to the wrong segmented list of recipients. Bad things tend to follow when this happens, and that sends senders into a panic.
Cameron Henry
• 5 min read
- What's new
Email’s Best of 2019
If you were to look back at digital communications a decade or two ago, you would find that email dominated the market – not text. The email has evolved from a 1:1 communication channel to one that is largely used for marketing messages. People have moved away from using email as a way to contact someone and instead moved their chatter to other platforms like SMS, Slack, Instagram, Messenger, etc.
Kate Nowrouzi
• 4 min read
- Best Practices
My Email Isn’t Authentic Enough - Misfit Email Series
Recently, I was asked a question; “What if my mail isn’t authentic enough?” Today, I’ll walk through potential problems and solutions of improper email authentication, so pull up a chair and get comfy.
Levi Trejo
• 8 min read
- Best Practices
The Consequences of Bad Email Templates - Misfit Email Series
Like life, email has its consequences. Is it possible to send a million messages on a brand-new domain on its first day? Technically, sure. Will it go well? No.
John Coker
• 7 min read
- For devs
HTTP/2 Cleartext (H2C) Client Example in Go
Since my internet foo failed me, and the only workable example of an H2C client I can find was in the actual go test suite, I’m going to lay out what I discovered about H2C support in golang here.
Derrick Wippler
• 3 min read
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