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PowerMTA – Delivery of large volumes of email 5.0b1

PowerMTA – Delivery of large volumes of email 5.0b1 PowerMTA ™ is an industrial email delivery software for large volumes. Designed for performance, deliverability and manageability, PowerMTA ™ is capable of delivering millions of e-mail messages per hour in sequence. Thanks to its extensive configuration capabilities and VirtualMTA technology, it provides detailed control over sources, sending…

Sometimes, a software company is as much about people as it is about technology.

Who says PowerMTA admins don’t have influence? Not only are they the influencers of our brand [Port25] they are also the main influencers and decision-makers when it comes to purchasing decisions.  With the increased demand for PowerMTA evaluations and a shortfall of experienced PowerMTA administrators, enterprises and ESPs that deploy PowerMTA are finding it challenging to administer ever-increasing levels of unilateral (on premise, in-house) and bi-lateral (hybrid: both on premise and cloud) deployments.

This demand has begun to surface in unfilled positions as companies that deploy PowerMTA as a platform are noticing a severe shortage of experienced PowerMTA admins throughout the US and Europe.  Some of the people stepping up to fill that demand are coming from the last place you would expect. You’ll have to wait to the end to find out where.

At small ESPs, you might find the delivery administrator wearing many different hats, including trouble shooting customer facing non-technical delivery questions and also managing the technical aspects of the MTA such as analyzing log files.   At larger enterprises and maturing ESPs, you find customer facing delivery teams separate from the technical delivery teams or pure MTA administrators.

Here is a quote from an experienced delivery admin at a large ESP:

“Our attempt to hire a senior PowerMTA admin was a complete failure. To quote my director, “there are none.”  I would make two statements. Those that know SMTP are very rare.   The other comment is that the pecking order in tech is as follows:

Product

Sales

Development

Infrastructure

PowerMTA admins fall under infrastructure, at the bottom of the hierarchy, or at the top, depending on who you ask…:)  Within infrastructure, MTA admins are unicorns. A senior router,  senior DBA, or senior virtualization admin will always carry more weight in an IT organization than an MTA admin because those roles have value measured by the general IT industry. Yet, the MTA administrator holds an increasingly more responsible role among the “infrastructure subset.”

Outside of organizations that send email   on behalf of others, MTA admins are a merely “nice to have,” or “extras.”  In addition, outsourcing message streams to the cloud has become viable alternative for some enterprises.      

Authorized PowerMTA consultants such at companies like Postmastery, founded by Maarten Oelering,  are seeing a sharp increase in demand for consulting services both domestically and abroad.  This is not necessarily something new, but demand has spiked over the past quarter.  Through his encounters with PowerMTA admins, he posits:  “the PowerMTA admin position is a “task” and not a “job”. The people I know that do PowerMTA administration have a broader set of skills and duties, related to email deliverability, or related to system administration.”

Deliverability administrators at some of the largest senders in the world (companies like ExactTarget, now a Salesforce company), have asked me to help them find experienced PowerMTA administrators for both remote and in-house opportunities.  ExactTarget and Pardot, both deploy on the PowerMTA platform and both owned by SalesForce, send close to 1B emails per day.  This number continues to grow, according to a source at ExactTarget.

Further, at the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG), we’re looking at facilitating a PowerMTA training session at an upcoming meeting, perhaps Philadelphia or Paris.  The goal of this training session is two-fold: to introduce PowerMTA to new IT admins and to hone the skills of experienced PowerMTA admins, and prepare them to enter the workforce at larger enterprises.    Students entering ongoing one-day workshops will be introduced to out of the box delivery settings and configurations that ISPs and the dev team at PowerMTA recommend.  They will also learn advanced bounce management logging analysis from integrations with Splunk and Kabana from ElasticSearch, among others essential tools for up and coming admins at maturing ESPs.

That surprising source of new MTA admin talent? Hollywood.  Actress Katie Holmes was recently interviewed by Email Service Provider Listrak to take on a PowerMTA admin position that would include managing privacy and compliance.  Gwyneth Paltrow just accepted a PowerMTA position with ESP Pinpointe, where she will be working closely with Craig Stouffer.  I also know a well-known ESP based in New York has hired a PowerMTA admin with some history working in Hollywood.  Her name has not been released, but rumor has it that it might be Kathy Bates.  Hard to believe , but Cindy Crawford is finally getting out of modeling: she recently was interviewed by the delivery team at MyEmma and hopes to come on board in short order as a PowerMTA admin working closely with Marc Powell and Art Quanstrom.  Is it April yet?

Amid this shortage of PowerMTA administrators, development for both enterprise and standard editions PowerMTA has never been more robust.  And, I’ll release more wonderful news about PowerMTA in the very near future.  If you are a PowerMTA consultant or a vendor who supports PowerMTA, I’d love to hear from you.  Keep an eye out for that M3AAWG training certification course at M3AAWG.

Hello Guys,

New version of PMTA is available. PMTA 4.5 (nulled)

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Hello Guys,

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Developing software applications for use in the enterprise has become commonplace, as organizations look to move away from disparate and disconnected legacy systems. However, it’s an area of business that is not only expensive, but also daunting. After all, despite your best efforts, there is always the underlying possibility that your business users simply won’t utilize the software you’ve developed and deployed.

But while software developers often tend to focus on the functionality of the system, it’s the user experience and adoption aspects that should be getting more attention prior to launch. Picking up the pieces and attempting to inject new life into a slow launch costs businesses both time and money.

To minimize the risk of that happening, we’ve identified adoption mistakes that enterprises need to avoid at all costs.

1. Always Cater for the Intended User(s)

First and foremost, software adoption will occur naturally if the system being implemented has a profound and positive effect on the lives of the users who will ultimately use it. Organizations need to strive to ensure that any software they implement is as user-friendly as possible. Stringent testing involving genuine end users results in software that is not only more efficient, but also more closely matched to user need.

2. Education, Education, Education

It doesn’t matter if your new software is almost flawless, a lack of education will always see it approached with skepticism; especially when your users have become accustomed to the current systems they are using. Therefore, the quality of your documentation, associated training and socialization efforts need to be priorities. They will help your users make the transition and boost your adoption rates.

3. Never Underestimate Resistance

Resistance to software implementations can be difficult for enterprises to overcome. But instead of neglecting the concerns of the naysayers, organizations should look to embrace them to make the new software even better. Get the initial resistors involved with beta testing and use their feedback to make your software even better. Winning over any critics early on is a satisfying victory and one that will improve adoption going forward.

4. Secure Stakeholder Agreement Early

Ideological rifts aren’t uncommon when it comes to software implementations, and unless they are addressed near the beginning they could lead to further issues at a later date, or even worse, detrimentally impact adoption levels altogether. The big issues that arise during a project need to be discussed and debated at length with any stakeholders to garner their opinions and potential solutions. This serves to make the user adoption issue firmly their problem too.

5. Always Follow-Up Post-Launch

Regardless of whether your newly-deployed software is a vast improvement over the old system, it won’t be used in anger unless your users obtain a firm grip on its functionality. Just because it’s new doesn’t mean it will be embraced with open arms. While the software adoption problem is more prevalent than you may think, it’s one that can be avoided if you address it right from the start of any development activities.

There are many facets to a cybercriminal operation, and one of them that is often overlooked—but is no less significant—is the hosting servers from which they launch their attacks. Commonly known in the industry as Bulletproof Servers, these are hardware-, software- or application-based hosting facilities that can store any type of content and executable code, just like any regular hosting service. What makes them different? These types of servers can be used to host malicious content, such as phishing sites, pornography, fake shopping and carding sites, and even command-and-control (C&C) infrastructure. In short, it’s the foundation by which major cybercriminal operations are built upon. This latest research aims to bring these hosting services to the public eye, offering a look into the more obscure details of cybercrime. Specifically, it seeks to answer the following questions:

1.What malicious content is most commonly hosted with these services.

2.What are the business models being used by Bulletproof Servers providers

3.How Bulletproof Servers providers stay in business

3.How much do Bulletproof Servers services cost for the common cybercriminal

Through extensive research, we are able to provide the following answers:

1.The most common malicious content hosted on Bulletproof Servers consist of fake shopping sites, torrent file download sites, Blackhat SEO pseudo-sites, brute force tools, C&C components and more.

2.Bulletproof Servers providers’ business models consist of three models: a.) the dedicated bulletproof server model, in which the provider knowingly hosts malicious content; b.) the compromised dedicated server, where the provider compromises dedicated legitimate servers and rents them out to malicious parties, and c.) abused cloud-hosting services, where legitimate service providers are being used illegally.

Besides hosting malicious content, The providers also earn revenue from other services, such as technical support, infrastructure migration, protection against DDoS attacks and more. Just like a legitimate server hosting practice, they provide supplementary services for their clients. The price of a hosting server depends on which business model the provider is using as well as the duration of usage.

There are many facets to a cybercriminal operation, and one of them that is often overlooked—but is no less significant—is the hosting servers from which they launch their attacks. Commonly known in the industry as Bulletproof Servers, these are hardware-, software- or application-based hosting facilities that can store any type of content and executable code, just like any regular hosting service. What makes them different?

These types of servers can be used to host malicious content, such as phishing sites, pornography, fake shopping and carding sites, and even command-and-control (C&C) infrastructure. In short, it’s the foundation by which major cybercriminal operations are built upon.

This latest research aims to bring these hosting services to the public eye, offering a look into the more

obscure details of cybercrime. Specifically, it seeks to answer the following questions:

1.What malicious content is most commonly hosted with these services What are the business models being used by Bulletproof Servers providers

2.How Bulletproof Servers providers stay in business

3.How much do Bulletproof Servers services cost for the common cybercriminal

Through extensive research, we are able to provide the following answers:

1.The most common malicious content hosted on Bulletproof Servers  consist of fake shopping sites, torrent

file download sites, Blackhat SEO pseudo-sites, brute force tools, C&C components and more.

2.Bulletproof Servers providers’ business models consist of three models: a.) the dedicated bulletproof server model, in which the provider knowingly hosts malicious content; b.) the

compromised dedicated server, where the provider compromises dedicated legitimate servers and rents

them out to malicious parties, and c.) abused cloud-hosting services,  where legitimate service providers are

being used illegally.

Besides hosting malicious content, The providers also earn revenue from other services, such as technical

support, infrastructure migration, protection against DDoS attacks and more. Just like a legitimate server

hosting practice, they provide supplementary services for their clients.

The price of a hosting server depends on which business model the provider is using as well as the duration

of usage.

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