July 28th, 2023 × #email#history#nodejs
Supper Club × Email Sending, Spam, DMARC, SPF, Styling, and more with Andris Reinman
Andres Reinman discusses the history and complexity of email protocols and clients, building Nodemailer, DMARC authentication, avoiding spam filters, and his email products Email Engine and Ethereal Email.
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Andris Reinman about his work on all things email - spam, DMARC, SPF, why there's no good CSS in email, and his current project: Email Engine.
Show Notes
- 00:36 Welcome
- 01:56 Introducing Andris Reinman
- Andris Reinman on GitHub
- Andris Reinman (@andrisreinman)
- Nodemailer :: Nodemailer
- 04:34 Why is email so difficult?
- Free DMARC Monitoring from Postmark
- ConvertKit: The creator marketing platform
- 09:48 What has changed in email?
- 10:52 What are DMARK, SPF and BIMI?
- 18:48 Is Mailtrain an open source alternative to Mailchimp?
- Mailtrain-org/mailtrain: Self hosted newsletter app
- 22:52 Why can't we use CSS in email?
- 29:05 Why is email so expensive?
- 32:39 How do you keep your emails out of the spam folder?
- 35:42 What is Email Engine?
- EmailEngine Email API
- 40:16 Is Email Engine self hosted?
- 41:01 How does Ethereal email work?
- Ethereal Email
- 46:16 What email client do you use?
- 49:44 Are any email clients harder to send to?
- 55:23 Supper Club questions
- iTerm2 - macOS Terminal Replacement
- 59:29 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××
××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××
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