Email deliverability news
What changed in the deliverability landscape, with the primary source attached to every item.
TDS is discontinuing subscriber email on October 31, 2026. Users who didn't subscribe to Everymail by September 30 lose their tds.net, bendbroadband.com and other addresses — expect bounces from these domains.
Source: TDS Telecom — Email FAQ
Apple released iOS 27 on September 14. Mail gains AI suggestions, relevance-ranked search and Siri actions — including deleting every email from a sender in one request.
Source: Apple Support
More than one million domains are already listed, per Validity, and Comcast, Proofpoint, Spamhaus and SURBL are named among organizations using or evaluating the data.
Source: Validity (via PR Newswire)
Senders are losing access to Postmaster Tools v1, per industry reports. The IP and domain reputation dashboards are being retired outright — v2's compliance verdicts are the replacement.
Source: Spam Resource
Ars Technica reports that misdirected mail to noreply.us and noreply.net — roughly 700 messages a day — has been leaking corporate data to a stranger since late 2024. The fix is basic sending-domain hygiene.
Source: Ars Technica
An IETF draft co-authored at Comcast, Iterable and Google — with Comcast already running a beta — would send domain owners daily aggregate reports of where their mail actually lands.
Source: Spam Resource
Spamhaus counted 14,952 botnet command-and-control servers in the first half of 2026 — a 30% drop — while abuse shifted sharply toward .cn domains and specific registrars.
Source: The Spamhaus Project
The omnichannel communications giant buys the Pennsylvania-based email infrastructure provider, adding nearly two decades of deliverability tooling to its platform. Terms were not disclosed.
Source: Infobip
The DKIM working group shipped revision -04 of the DKIM2 specification on July 5, weeks after adopting a first best-practices draft — the replacement for DKIM is taking recognizable shape.
Source: IETF Datatracker
A new section under the Compliance status dashboard translates Gmail's signals into one of seven verdicts with a recommended action — the closest Gmail has come to telling senders what it actually thinks.