Email Deliverability Glossary

 

The non-technical concepts and terms are listed below for the email deliverability.

Email Deliverability

When a single content email is send to the whole list of contact " the email marketing list" not all of them get delivered. Here is from where the term email deliverability has come out. This term is taken to have two main meanings:

  • To take whole of the area for the delivery of all mails at the right place.
  • It also means the concrete success at getting all mails delivered at the right place.

It means if the next time you find someone talking about email deliverability means the issue related to the delivery of all the email at the right place in the time.

All of the other terms mentioned below are related to this term i.e. Email Deliverability.

General Concepts

A number of organizations are involved in delivering email. The examples of such firms are Yahoo and Hotmail. These are the top managing email firms of the world.

The main task which these companies are performing is to keep the check which email is to be delivered or not to be delivered. This would be such an easy task for them if the world is perfect but they have challenges with the spammers. The basics for keeping the check can be chalked out as:

  • Do the email be deleted right away or be sent?
  • Do the email be marked as spam or deliver it to the user's junk box?
  • Or the email is to be delivered to the inbox, straight?

Most of the terms which apply to the email deliverability refer to the procedures and technologies which help organizations and software to make the right decision in delivering the email at the right place.

Spam Filters and Anti Spam Technologies

Anti spam technologies are the functions applied to identify spam and dealing with them rightly. Today, we have hundreds of the technologies in hand to deal with such problems. Spam filters are the ones which help filter the spam mails from whole of the bulk of emails. Filters are capable of providing the mail box with the spam free emails.

Spam Reports

Spam reports are the reports which help the receiver to report for the spam.

Blacklists

The blacklist refers to the list of the users blocked for being spammers.

White lists

Getting on to the white list helps your email pass the spam checks and filters, automatically.

Email Certification

Email certification is applied to the certificate provided by the third party organization which declares that your email has desired quality and standard. Usually, some fee is charged for the email certification.

Email authentication

Email authentication is the way to identify the email sender and his quality status. Once the email is authenticated it is sent to the desired address.

Email Sender Reputation

This term applies to the reputation of the sender which he enjoys with the incoming email managing organizations.

This note is useful enough for those who are seeking knowledge about the terms for email deliverability.