The Business Email Security Blog

How PTR Records, A Records, and MX Records can Affect Email Server Deliverability

In the previous article we talked about what PTR records, A records, and MX records are. This article will explain how misconfiguration of these DNS records could negatively impact the functionality of your Email Server. Why PTR records are Important for Email Servers Networks or servers may utilize PTR records to help determine whether a connection from a particular IP is wanted. This should be important to Email Server operators, as it could affect the ability to connect, and therefore the ability to send email. Having a PTR record that doesn’t look like unwanted traffic will improve your Email Server’s…
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Email Server Basics: PTR Records, A Records, and MX Records

This is the first article in a two-part series that will go over some basic DNS records important for Email Servers. The next article in the series will talk about why these DNS records are important for the proper functioning of Email Servers. Internet Protocol (IP) addresses allow us a way to connect to other devices on the internet. For example, the ‘device’ behind a particular IP address could be an Email Server. Email Servers are usually servers that can send, receive, and store email. To represent your device properly on the internet as an Email Server, you’ll need to…
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Dark Web Price Index: The Cost of Email Data

For the majority of online users, the Dark Web is a mysterious part of the Internet associated with illicit trading and cybercrime. Despite the fact it constitutes only 6% or the total Internet, it is a highly dynamic ecosystem that constantly grows. According to EarthWeb, the Dark Web saw record-breaking growth in 2020 and now consists of 3,000 hidden websites consuming 75,000 terabytes of data. Web user access credentials, cyber-attacks, espionage services, medical records, and financial data are just some of the goods and services that can be obtained here. The Dark Web also allows users to browse and trade…
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What is Spam? A Brief History of Unwanted Email

As one of the most common means of communication today, our email inbox is a target to many online advertisers and scammers. From shady offers of lifestyle products to fake notifications of inheritance, our junk folders are filled with dozens of unwanted emails every day. It is estimated that 85% of all email is spam. According to Statista, 88.88 billion out of 105.67 billion of emails sent daily in September 2021 were spam. The total number of emails reached a record high in July, 2021 with 336.41 billion daily email on average. The percent of spam emails was also around…
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How to Pick the Right Web Hosting Partner

With over 330,000 providers out there, the web hosting industry offers lucrative options for businesses looking to establish and maintain a successful online presence. Yet choosing the right one can turn out to be more challenging than what most business owners think at the start. Read on to learn more about the key factors to consider when making your decision.
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How to Prevent Spoofed Emails on cPanel Email Servers (Part 1)

Keeping email users safe from threat actors is one of the most critical hosting challenges for businesses. Threat actors use a variety of threat techniques to deceive and harm victims, including Email Spoofing to create Spoofed Emails which is one of the most common but effective email threats. This two-part article will focus on Spam Filtering Best Practices to reduce the amount of Spoofed Emails entering mailboxes hosted on cPanel — one of the most widely used web hosting control panels in the World. In the first part, we will learn about the characteristics of Spoofed Emails and the ways…
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What’s new in MagicSpam? (Q3 2022 Edition)

More power direct from the MagicSpam Panel, that’s what! What we have found after talking to you, our customers, was that the vast majority loves how MagicSpam helps them take back control of email. One email administration feature that kept on coming up conversation after conversation was our Log Search functionality. We heard a whole bunch of reasons for the love ranging from ‘it helps me to quickly understand my email traffic flow’ to ‘I can easily find out more about individual emails’, but simply put — it makes you a more effective email administrator. This makes absolute sense —…
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cPanel Mail Server Configuration – A Starter Guide for Beginners

With its wide array of statistics, email functions, SEO features, and more, cPanel is one of the most popular web hosting control panels among companies and web developers today. But cPanel mail server configuration can seem daunting at first for beginners and non-technical users. For this reason, with this guide, we will make the cPanel mail server configuration simple and easy to follow. We will go through how to set up your cPanel email server from scratch so that you can start sending and receiving emails, adding and editing email addresses and domains, and more. What is cPanel and What…
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