Verify-email.org offers verification tool for an email to check if the address is properly formatted and really exists.
This tool works as SMTP Server: MX-Records are extracted from a DNS Server. Then the tool connects to SMTP servers and simulates the sending of a message.
MailChimp sent 3 billion emails last month.
Matthew from MailChimp unveils the secret of ‘Cold IPs’ and how MailChimp manages to push half a million emails over an IP all at once.
The problem is that cold IPs don’t have any reputation. Email receivers like Gmail and Hotmail would probably bounce all that traffic.
Litmus – the secret weapon for email marketers – put together Email Analytics statistics for the past year to examine how email viewing habits have changed.
Results are available in a nice and easy-to-understand infographics.
A nice move was to make available to everyone for free within the pre-designed library Designer Templates – emails designed by web design titans like Veerle Pieters, Mike Kus, and Matthew Smith.
Some key points from a very detailed and deep explanation of Email Marketing Metrics from Avinash Kaushik