DKIM brain teaser: the answer

Gave y'all an extra day, but still only two guesses at the puzzle! I'm going to round up to “too challenging” instead of down to “nobody cares.”

Numeric and “numeroalphabetic” strings in Marketo, SQL, PHP and elsewhere

Marketo user SS asked a good question [https://nation.marketo.com/thread/36666] about datatypes in webhook responses. Referring to the documentation provided by a 3rd-party lead enrichment service, she

A DKIM, SPF, and DMARC brain teaser with a meatworld prize!

Last night, a faithful reader and Marketo champ sent me a DKIM-related question that had a couple of interesting twists and turns. While I figured it out quickly (being steeped

Explore and filter lead domains using FlowBoost's FBEmail

Of all the frustrations of Marketo's matching and filtering engine, few can rival its inability to accurately match on the domain part of an email. ([Email Address] Contains

Newlines to <BR>s in Velocity

When you output a textarea token in an HTML email, you might be surprised that its linebreaks go bye-bye. This really should be expected, as newlines are typically swallowed in

Exploring polymorphic (HTML & text) tokens in Velocity

An abiding problem with Marketo tokens is that if you're sending multipart emails for widest compatibility, neither a Rich Text {{my.token}} built with the WYSISWYG editor, nor

Adding an “Other” option to Marketo forms without adding db fields

You often see Marketo forms with an “extension” field where a lead can type an explanation for their Other/None of the Above choice: This works well enough from the

Even great software companies don't know how to use SPF

Lots of broken SPF records in the wild. Doesn’t matter how large or “technical” a company seems to be.