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In-depth articles on email privacy, security, development and service updates. Each post is written to be genuinely useful — not keyword-padded filler.
Privacy
Email privacy, tracking pixels, data minimisation and protecting your inbox.
Security
HTML sanitisation, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, phishing and transactional email security.
Development
Building and testing email flows, developer tools and API integrations.
News
Updates about EmailGenerator.pro — new features, improvements and changes.
Latest evergreen posts
Practical articles about email privacy, security and developer testing.
Why Your Real Email Ends Up on Marketing Lists
The practical path from one harmless signup to a crowded inbox, and how to reduce the damage.
How Email Tracking Pixels Work
The tiny remote image that logs opens, location signals and device details.
What Email Headers Reveal
Received chains, SPF, DKIM, DMARC and the metadata behind a message.
Why Password Reset Emails Matter
Your recovery inbox is often the real key to an account.
How Developers Test Email Flows
Manual and staging checks for product teams that send transactional email.
Common Mistakes When Testing Signup Emails
The small email testing mistakes that create large signup problems.
Why Websites Ask for Email Verification
The legitimate reasons sites require email verification and why it is not just about collecting your data.
Why Marketing Emails Keep Arriving
The structural reasons why unsubscribe requests are ineffective and how to actually stop marketing email.
How Signup Email Verification Works
The complete lifecycle of email verification, including token generation, delivery, and validation.
What a Website Can Learn From Your Email Address
The data websites can infer from your email address and how it is used for personalization and tracking.
Disposable Email and Privacy: What It Really Changes
The realistic privacy benefits of disposable email and what remains exposed when you use it.
Why Some Verification Emails Never Arrive
The infrastructure behind verification email delivery failures and how to diagnose when messages are blocked versus delayed.
Why Email Goes to Spam
The factors that determine whether email lands in the inbox or spam folder and how legitimate senders can avoid spam filters.
How Developers Debug Missing Emails
The systematic approach to debugging when transactional emails fail to arrive.
Email Testing Checklist for QA Teams
The essential email testing checklist covering delivery, rendering, functionality, and spam filtering.
Testing Password Reset Flows
The critical security-critical email flow that requires thorough testing.
Testing Welcome Emails
The critical first email that sets user expectations and engagement patterns.
Testing OTP Emails
The critical authentication mechanism that requires comprehensive testing for security and usability.
Testing Transactional Email
The essential email flows that power business operations and commerce, requiring thorough testing.
Common Email Testing Mistakes
The overlooked email testing pitfalls that cause production issues and poor user experience.
Email Privacy Mistakes
The email privacy mistakes that expose you to unnecessary risk and how to use temporary email strategically.
Email Security Mistakes
The email security mistakes that expose you to account compromise and how to use temporary email strategically.
When an Alias Is Better Than Temporary Email
The specific scenarios where email aliases outperform temporary email for privacy and functionality.
When a Permanent Address Is Better Than Temporary Email
The scenarios where using your real email address is the better privacy and usability choice.
Why Temporary Email Cannot Replace Account Recovery Email
The structural reasons temporary email cannot serve as a recovery email and what systems actually need for account recovery.
Understanding Email Delivery Delays
The infrastructure behind email delivery delays and realistic expectations for email arrival times.
What we write about
Posts here cover four areas:
- Privacy — how email exposes you, what tracking pixels collect, when to use a disposable address versus an alias.
- Security — HTML sanitisation, phishing indicators, SPF/DKIM/DMARC for developers shipping transactional mail.
- Development — testing email flows, integrating with mail APIs, tooling for engineers who send or receive email.
- News — updates to the EmailGenerator.pro service itself: new features, infrastructure changes, and security notices.
Posts are added when there is something worth saying. We do not publish on a schedule designed to fill a content calendar.
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