Email

Email

Electronic communication using one of the accepted protocols.

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Email

Email sent to an active (live) email address but which is turned away before being delivered. Often, the problem is temporary -- the server is down or the recipient's mailbox is over quota. The email ...

solo mailing

Software; Email

A one-time broadcast to an email list, separate from regular newsletters or promotions, and often including a message from an outside advertiser or a special promotion from the list owner.

spam

Software; Email

The popular name for unsolicited commercial email. However, some email recipients define spam as any email they no longer want to receive, even if it comes from a mailing list they joined ...

spamcop

Software; Email

A blacklist and IP-address database, formerly privately owned but now part of the email vendor Ironport. Many ISPs check the IP addresses of incoming email against Spamcop's records to determine ...

sponsorship swap

Software; Email

An agreement between email list owners, publishers or advertisers to sponsor each other's mailings or newsletters for free. See ad swap.

spoofing

Software; Email

The practice of changing the sender's name in an email message so that it looks as if it came from another address.

subject line

Software; Email

Copy that identifies what an email message is about, often designed to entice the recipient into opening the message. The subject line appears first in the recipient's inbox, often next to the ...