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Only CertifiedEmail messages carry the Blue Trust Seal in the consumer’s inbox. This exclusive feature lets the recipient know your message is guaranteed-safe to open.

 

When consumers see our Blue Trust Seal in the security strip above your message, they’ll have confidence that your message is from you and you alone. This non-spoofable feature is available only with CertifiedEmail.

While the security strip look and content varies by provider, the Blue Trust Seal appears in every message we help you send. It’s another exclusive feature from CertifiedEmail — and another way we’re restoring trust in email.

 

One of the exclusive benefits of using CertifiedEmail is the ability to bypass ISP and mailbox provider content filters. That means you can send a message using any words you wish – even FREE!. With CertifiedEmail, you’re never blocked by an ISP’s or email provider’s secret content rules. You and your customers decide the content of the message, not spam filters.

Bulk email senders often get frustrated by ISPs’ and mailbox providers’ volume filters. CertifiedEmail goes around these throttling controls — not through them — allowing senders the freedom to send all that they can, as fast as they can.

Throttling control is mostly determined by the sender’s reputation level. Because CertifiedEmail messages bypass ISP volume filters, you won’t have to invest precious resources on unpredictable and costly scoring improvement.

Only CertifiedEmail always renders images and makes links active (and clickable) by default as soon as the message is opened. Goodmail’s partner ISPs and email providers know with confidence that CertifiedEmail is safe — and so will your customers.

 

To become a CertifiedEmail sender, fill out our application form and provide Goodmail with details about the email you send. We need to know the IP addresses of your mail servers and who your ESP is (if you use one). We’ll do a background check of your company. And we’ll check your reputation and verify the information you’ve provided.

Once we’ve verified your information and determine that your reputation is within our acceptable limits, you may be accredited to send CertifiedEmail. For a list of some of the requirements to become accredited, visit the Qualifications page.

Getting accredited is not automatic. Only the safest, most secure companies will join the ranks of CertifiedEmail senders. That’s why ISPs and email providers trust us so much.

One of the techniques to verify an email sender is to check the from address in the message, however only the domain name is checked in most systems.
For example, if the "from address" of a message is "example@goodmailsystems.com", only the "goodmailsystems.com" would be verified and not the username (the part before the "@" sign).

CertifiedEmail message checking doesn’t stop at the domain name in the from address, we verify that each individual email has been authenticated and is secure.

CertifiedEmail is the only solution that verifies both the legitimacy of the sender and of every individual email message they send. We verify senders through an extensive accreditation process. And Goodmail does real-time message verification on each and every CertifiedEmail message.

Authentication standards alone simply can't do this, because this functionality is not within the scope of the standards. For example, the following excerpt is from the DKIM service overview, section 1.1 ("Scope"):

By itself, a DKIM signature:

• Does not offer any assertions about the behaviors of the identity doing the signing.
• Does not prescribe any specific actions for receivers to take upon successful signature verification.
• Does not provide protection after signature verification.
• Does not protect against re-sending (replay of) a message that already has a verified signature; therefore a transit intermediary or a recipient can re-post the message in such a way that the signature would remain verifiable, although the new recipient(s) would not have been specified by the author.

Goodmail uses several techniques to maintain the security of our systems and the integrity of CertifiedEmail. Some of the techniques include requiring pre-registered "from addresses" to prevent spoofing, per-customer quotas, and access control mechanisms.

Only Goodmail has servers at the ISPs and mailbox providers. Messages identified as CertifiedEmail messages take a different route, a faster route to recipient mailboxes

Goodmail's strategic relationships with major ISPs and mailbox providers assures delivery of your CertifiedEmail messages.* Only Goodmail has these contractual agreements with all of these ISPs and mailbox providers:

*CertifiedEmail is currently available at AOL, Comcast, Cox, MySpace, Telus and Verizon and will be available from our other ISP partners soon.

In one way or another, the services listed to the right can help you get your email delivered to supporting ISPs and mailbox providers. Yet, only Goodmail has strategic relationships and contractual agreements with all of the following ISPs and mailbox providers to assure delivery of CertifiedEmail messages to your customers’ inboxes:

*CertifiedEmail is currently available at AOL, Comcast, Cox, MySpace, Telus and Verizon and will be available from our other ISP partners soon.