At Mailbaby, we like to keep things delivered but occasionally, we run into some pretty sophisticated bad actors trying to pull a fast one on your inbox. One of the most common—and sneakiest—threats we see is something called an Email Forwarding Compromise. It sounds technical, but it’s actually a classic case of digital eavesdropping. Here […]
At MailBaby, we are always testing new ways to keep your outbox secure. Since early 2025 we have been running rspamd + gpt module designed to catch sophisticated spam and phishing attacks that traditional filters might miss. We want to show you exactly how it works, using a real-world example, and explain why your privacy […]
What is a Spam Trap? A spam trap is a decoy email address used by internet service providers and security companies to catch and block spammers. Since these addresses are not owned by real people and never sign up for newsletters, any email sent to them is immediately identified as unsolicited spam. This helps organizations […]
Updates to the Mailbaby Plguin We’ve rolled out an exciting update to the MailBaby SMTP plugin. If you are using the plugin, you now have the ability to sign your emails with dkim over the API right in wordpress.
At Mailbaby, we are constantly working to improve our service’s speed, reliability, and security. Here’s a look at some new features we’ve just released and what’s just around the corner. Now live in production: Faster SMTP Logins: We’ve implemented a new auth cache for SMTP lookups. This significantly speeds up the authentication process, getting your […]
Understanding Common Email Bounce Messages and Errors Sometimes you may be checking logs and see emails sitting in the queue, waiting to be retired or perhaps you got a bounce back – below are common retry, error or bounce messages you may see in your email logs. Some are temporary errors on the remote server, […]
Coming soon for mailbaby users is the ability to enable inbound filtering. Like our outbound filtering this will include a real time log, going back 30 days for inbound email. Inbound has been a frequent request and the filtering system has been made based on our long running internal filtering system that has been active […]
Mailbaby is an SMTP smart host designed to automatically block outgoing spam and detect compromised accounts. However, false positives can occur. If this happens, submitting a “not spam” report will trigger a manual review of the affected email stream. We will reach out to the account owner for more information if necessary. Significant efforts have […]
