best practices for bulk mailings with civicrm
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Presented at the CiviCon 2013 in SF. We talked about the email infrastructure setup required for bulk mailings with CiviCRM as well as deliverability best practices: CAN-SPAM compliance, SPF, feedback loop management, bounce processing and spam traps. Deliverability best practices will be helpful to anybody who wants to start sending bulk mailings using their own SMTP server.TRANSCRIPT
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