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Easily Unsubscribe from Email Newsletters and Subscriptions
Are you suffering from email overload due to too many email subscriptions and newsletters? The third-party service Leave Me Alone can help you declutter your inbox. It scans your email to identify subscriptions and allows you to easily unsubscribe from unwanted mailing lists en masse. If you have many subscriptions or newsletters, this service makes it much easier to unsubscribe, instead of having to locate and click the unsubscribe link in each individual email message.
Several Widomaker customers have successfully used this service to clean up their Widomaker mailbox. It worked so well, we wanted to let our other customers know about it. Widomaker has no connection to this service other than being impressed with how well it worked.
That seemingly innocent text is probably a scam | Malwarebytes
Scammers are using texts that appear to have been sent to a wrong number to get targets to engage in a conversation.
Source: That seemingly innocent text is probably a scam | Malwarebytes
Warning: Why You Should Avoid Microsoft’s New Outlook for Email
TL;DR: Avoid the “New Outlook” or “Outlook (New)” application for email. Use Thunderbird, Widomaker Webmail, “Classic Outlook”, or another traditional email client, instead.
Microsoft’s “New Outlook” application is rolling out, and while it brings a fresh look, it introduces a significant change for users with non-Microsoft email accounts, particularly those using IMAP. If you value your privacy and data security, you need to be aware of how it handles your information.
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Have You Been Pwned?
Protect Your Digital Identity with Have I Been Pwned
In today’s digital world, data breaches happen frequently. Your personal information could be exposed without your knowledge, putting your online accounts at risk.
Microsoft Announces Strict DMARC Enforcement
Following Google and Yahoo’s similar announcement, more than a year ago, Microsoft has announced they will require properly configured DMARC, in order to send email to Microsoft’s consumer email domains (Outlook.com, Live.com, and Hotmail.com), beginning in May, 2025.
DMARC is an email authentication protocol that, together with SPF and DKIM, makes it easier to determine whether or not a given message is legitimately from the sender, and what to do if it isn’t. It is designed to give email domain owners the ability to protect their domain from unauthorized use, commonly known as email spoofing.
Widomaker can help you enable SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for your business email domain, even if the domain is not hosted with us. We are email deployment experts. Contact us today, by telephone or email, to discuss this with an email expert!
Why Businesses and Domain Owners Should Implement DMARC Before February 2024
Do you send email using your own domain name? If so, there is something you should know about and it may affect your ability to reach your email audience.
Starting in February of 2024, Google and Yahoo will require most email senders to use DMARC in order to send email to Google or Yahoo recipients. This means that if you want your emails to be delivered to Google or Yahoo recipients, you need to properly enable DMARC for your business email domain.
DMARC is an email authentication protocol that, together with SPF and DKIM, makes it easier to determine whether or not a given message is legitimately from the sender, and what to do if it isn’t. It is designed to give email domain owners the ability to protect their domain from unauthorized use, commonly known as email spoofing.
By implementing DMARC, you increase the likelihood that your emails are delivered to your customers’ inboxes, and not marked as spam or rejected. This will help you maintain a good email sending reputation.
Widomaker can help you enable SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for your business email domain, even if the domain is not hosted with us. We are email deployment experts. Contact us today, by telephone or email, to discuss this with an email expert!
Design Beautiful Websites! A new self-service website builder is available for web hosting customers!
A new website builder is now available to our web hosting customers. Easily create professional websites without coding or hiring a designer. Pick a template, customize it with our drag & drop editor, and click “publish” to go live. Sitejet Builder for Plesk lets you design your own website directly from your Plesk control panel. It has all the tools you need for website building, no coding required. Contact us with any questions.
Is your hosted email domain ready for Google’s & Yahoo’s DMARC requirements?
Starting in February of 2024, Google, Yahoo, and others, will begin requiring that DMARC, SPF, and DKIM, be properly set up on your domain name, if you will be sending email, from your email domain, to them. DMARC, SPF, and DKIM, help authenticate email senders by verifying that the emails came from the domain that they claim to be from.
You can check your domain name, to see if DMARC has already been set up, by using this DMARC Check tool.
Contact us, to set up an appointment, to review your domain, and make sure DMARC is properly set up, so you don’t have trouble sending email to those providers beginning in 2024.
Home Office / Small Business Hurricane Prep
With what is (or was by now?) hurricane Idalia crossing past my house today, I decided to write a quick summary of what I usually do in cases like this to prepare. This is for a home office or a small business, assuming you have the resources for a typical home.
Source: SANS Internet Storm Center
