First, let me say happy holidays to everyone reading this blog. I hope this recap finds you all well, healthy, and finding a little holiday cheer during what can only be billed as a new normal. That said, this new normal of ours is just one aspect of a year filled with milestones, never-befores, and […]
2020’s Unprecedented Holiday Email Sending Volumes | SendGrid Read More »
We’ve written many Cypress tests across different web applications and frontend teams here at Twilio SendGrid. As our tests scaled to many features and pages, we stumbled onto some useful configuration options and developed ways to better maintain our growing number of files, selectors to our page’s elements, and timeout values along the way. We
We’ve written a lot of end-to-end (E2E) Cypress tests to validate our web applications are still working as expected with the backend. After writing these browser automation tests, we would like to always have these Cypress tests run or be triggered in some way like our unit tests before we merge code and deploy to
Twilio SendGrid’s staple Email Benchmark and Engagement Study is back with a new focus on both email and SMS/MMS messaging. The new 2020 Global Messaging Engagement Report helps senders to better understand the perspective of recipients, and this year’s findings explore more data than ever before. Unlike previous versions of this guide, this report does
Announcing the 2020 Global Messaging Engagement Report | SendGrid Read More »
The COVID-19 crisis continues to teach us all quite a bit about what is important. In the world of email, this is no different. As an email community, we’ve seen COVID-19 related messages connect people and transfer critical information, while making it possible for us to stay connected. However, bad actors are using the pandemic
Email Authentication in the Time of COVID | SendGrid Read More »
Your email list is arguably your most important marketing asset. It’s the lifeblood of your marketing program—the cheese to your pizza. Building an engaged email marketing list doesn’t happen overnight, but it’s well worth the investment. Buying, renting, or scraping a list is a big no-no, and it’s a huge waste of your time and
How to Use SMS to Grow Your Email List | SendGrid Read More »
This is a pretty common question that comes up when sending email, but to fully answer this question we need a little bit of background information. What is SMTP? SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and is basically “the way” to send email over the internet. It was initially proposed in August of 1982
What’s the Difference Between Ports 465 and 587? | SendGrid Read More »
Twilio SendGrid has hit a new milestone in our mission to provide customers with the most trusted communication platform. In May 2020, we surpassed 3 trillion processed emails. We want to take a moment to share in celebrating this accomplishment with you, as well as how we’ve designed for this scale, and how we ensure
Scale by Design: 3T Emails and Growing | SendGrid Read More »
We receive a lot of communication on a daily basis. From email to SMS, social media, and digital advertising, the sheer number of channels brands use to communicate can be overwhelming. And because businesses are unable to communicate with customers face to face due to COVID-19, it feels like we’re receiving even more communication, especially
Consumers Share What Communications Work (and Don’t) During COVID-19 | SendGrid Read More »
While there are plenty of tutorials on the Internet about sending emails, there is very little on how to configure an application to receive them and process them. This is a task that can be incredibly difficult if you are trying to set everything up by yourself, but it is as easy as receiving a
How to Receive Emails with the Flask Framework for Python | SendGrid Read More »
