Here is a list of trusted sources on email that I have found useful in different categories.
Personal Email
Optimize your inbox with tips and tricks from these experts:
- Heinz Tschabitscher – Writes on all aspects of personal email for About.com. He has an excellent review of several disposable email websites.
- Lifehacker - A user submitted directory of tips and tricks, they have a section devoted to email.
Email Deliverability -
Not all emails are created equal, follow these links to make sure your emails get to where they’re going.
- Laura Atkins – Is an email consultant in “Email, Delivery, Spam and more”. Her articles are well written, informative and up to date.
- Awebber.com – A commercial mailer, they cover the many hoops that must be jumped through to get an email from a server to your inbox.
- Postmaster.live.com – Microsoft is notoriously difficult to send emails to, you won’t get your emails to hotmail unless you follow their rules.
Inside Email
Every language is different, I choose to use ruby. Check out these links to get more information on sending emails in ruby on rails.
- ActionMailer Guide – This is the official sending email guide for ruby on rails. Its a great place to start out and a great resource.
- Tmail – The library that is used for parsing emails in RoR before 3.0. If you’ll be doing alot of email work with ruby before 3.0 then you will become very good friends with the TMail library.
