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MXToolbox Lists Ten of the Best Email Related Tools Online

This is a short “reblog” of a post that MXToolbox recently made concerning their favorite email related tools. Every year for the last three years they compile a list of their employees’ favorite online tools for email troubleshooting. Check out this year’s list of ten. Sure, three of them are their own products, but those rock too. I’ll include a short snipping of some of the products they listed:

From MX Toolbox’s Third Annual List of Email Related Tools:

2. Send Test Email- This tool is from Wormly and is pretty cool. All you have to do is enter your SMTP server and then a sender and recipient. Then just hit the button and it shows you the SMTP conversation.

6. Quick Zone Check – Performs a series of checks on your name servers and email servers. Returns WHOis, MX, Name Server and more info all in one place.

9. ping@mxtoolbox.com – MxToolBox Ping is one of the Free Tools provided by MxToolBox to help you determine if Inbound and Outbound mail flow is working. Simply send an email from your network to ping@mxtoolbox.com and the tool will look at the email headers of your message and send you a notification back immediately. Please note that the subject and body do not matter. The response email will include several helpful troubleshooting tools including your Outbound IP, server hops, any transaction times or delays and it can help trace the route your email is taking to discover any outbound gateways you might be using.

I would personally like to recommend that you try ping@mxtoolbox.com. Right now, send a blank email to that address. Do it! It’s fun!

Do you have any other online email tools that weren’t on MX Toolbox’s list? Are you making the next best tool right now? Or is it a script that you only share with the cool kids? Let me know in the comments below.

2 Comments to “MXToolbox Lists Ten of the Best Email Related Tools Online”

MxToolBox 4 November 2011 at 11:47 am #

Thanks so much for sharing our November Newsletter. Did you have any additional tools to add?

Thanks again!
@mxtoolbox

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Wesley David 4 November 2011 at 7:04 pm #

I’m thinking about collating my own list of email related tools, but for now yours will suffice. =)

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