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Advice on From Addresses for Marketo emails

  • February 10, 2021
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Hello,

 

In setting up our instance to ensure email deliverability, we are looking into using an email subdomain, such as email.example.com, for outbound emails from Marketo. Is this a critical step in setting up a successful Marketo instance? 

 

If so, what are the best practices for using a new email subdomain as the "From address"? Should we create a central email address on that subdomain, like user@email.example.com?  Or should we create a number of emails, such as specific.user@email.example.com?  

 

Any further documentation outside of the Setup Outline would be appreciated, as we use Google for our email and I noticed it mentions needing an abuse@ and postmaster@ email in order for an email domain to work in Marketo, which seems to require extra steps for Google users. 

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SanfordWhiteman
SanfordWhiteman
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February 10, 2021
In setting up our instance to ensure email deliverability, we are looking into using an email subdomain, such as email.example.com, for outbound emails from Marketo. Is this a critical step in setting up a successful Marketo instance?

No, it's not critical.

 

It can help with certain administrative tasks. For example, if you use a reply tracking service (not Marketo) then it's a lot easier to set things up if the replies you care about are routed to a special domain.

 

It will not — and I cannot stress this enough as it's a common misconception — help you evade blacklists/blocklists. Blacklist providers will include the shortest private suffix (example.com) and all subdomains. They're not stupid! 🙂

 

Any further documentation outside of the Setup Outline would be appreciated, as we use Google for our email and I noticed it mentions needing an abuse@ and postmaster@ email in order for an email domain to work in Marketo, which seems to require extra steps for Google users. 

Yes, the SMTP RFC (= standard) requires that any domain accept mail for a set of built-in addresses. In years past, you could be blocked if your domain became known as not accepting such mail. It's not enforced much in the wild anymore.

 

    JeffHensiek
    JeffHensiek
    New Participant
    November 30, 2021

    Question for the group. 

     

    Where would we find the "From" email address in our Marketo account?  I'm looking to get a handle on the different emails addresses that we use inside of Marketo to send emails.  Where would I find that list of email addresses?

     

    Jeff

     

    Jeff HensiekMarketing Automation Program Manager
    SanfordWhiteman
    SanfordWhiteman
    New Participant
    November 30, 2021

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