Comments on: Yahoo stops offering preferred delivery to Goodmail certified email

By: Mickey Chandler's Spamtacular | Guest Post: Your Problems Are Bigger Than You Think

Thu, 06 May 2010 14:08:12 +0000

[...] Yahoo stops offering preferred delivery to Goodmail certified email (wordtothewise.com) [...]

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:59:34 +0000

So, Daniel, Yahoo! just decided to drop your program because they felt like it? Why doesn’t Goodmail publishe who their clients are so we might see for ourselves. On your web site under “Who’s Sending Certified Email” you publishe just a hanful of carefully selected case studies. Same thing with your samples, publishing only those of major recognized brands. Somthing to hide, perhaps?

By: Goodmail no longer gets preferential treatment by Yahoo | MailChimp Email Marketing Blog

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:04:10 +0000

[...] may have seen the announcement over at Laura Atkins’ blog about Yahoo no longer giving preferred delivery to Goodmail certified messages. I’ve got no insight as to why this might be, and have zero opinion about [...]

By: Suresh Ramasubramanian

Suresh Ramasubramanian — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:21:49 +0000

Me, I’m perfectly willing to outsource negative reputation to a few people (spamhaus say). Not all that ready to outsource positive reputation (whitelisting).

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:30:47 +0000

Actually, this article seems about right, Daniel. If you really want to get your side of the story out better, let’s start with your ongoing policy compliance efforts for Goodmail clients. I have seen nary a peep of this in any industry forums, public or private, and yet ReturnPath seems to be very active and involved on this front.

By: Daniel Dreymann (Goodmail)

Daniel Dreymann (Goodmail) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:05:40 +0000

Laura: it’s disappointing that while I had offered to answer any question you might have, you neither asked me a single question, nor asked me to comment on your speculations. You received corroborating input from Yahoo and Goodmail, and yet chose to publish unsupported theories from unnamed people. Those interested in the complete story, and follow any updates, can find it at http://goodmail.typepad.com

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:02:38 +0000

Link again:
http://s941.photobucket.com/albums/ad251/domydeal/?action=view¤t=GoodmailImages.jpg

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:02:23 +0000

Hi Laura,

Thanks for your response.

If you look at the image below you will see Goodmail is still signing the messages, and this was the case when I had lunch with their sales team yesterday.

Thanks,
greg

By: laura

laura — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:43:01 +0000

Hi, Greg,

Certification went away on Monday. I have a Y! account signed up to a Goodmail customer, and the Goodmail badge and headers are gone from that mail this week. So you can start measuring delivery changes now.

For the record, in my test case the mail was delivered to the inbox with and without the Goodmail headers.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:39:23 +0000

As a Goodmail customer it will be interesting to see how the whole situation shakes out. Obviously right now there is this black hole right now, waiting to see how delivery functions when the CertifiedEmail goes away. Some feedback would be nice on when they anticipate this service will really drop off and what preferential treatment Yahoo will offer if any to Goodmail delivered emails.

Thank you for digging into the situation as any insight is better than none.