We discuss the future of PowerMTA, how Postmastery complements Port25 and upcoming events for customers and users.

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The Future of PowerMTA
in Partnership with Postmastery
November 6, 2018

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Panelists
Bridey Medeiros
Customer Success Manager, Port25
Juan Altmayer Pizzorno
Co-Founder, Port25
Juan Altmayer Pizzorno is a co-founder of Port25 and the original author of PowerMTA. Even after the
company’s acquisition by Message Systems, Juan remained involved in PowerMTA development and
product management. Away from the keyboard, he likes to hike, sail, work on his apple trees and build
things with his kids.
Maarten Oelering
Partner/CTO, Postmastery
Bridey Medeiros is one of the original members of port25 and been working with customers since 2007.
Bridey has been the face of port25’s customer success where she acts as an advocate for customers by
collaborating with them to build a stronger and better partnership. In her free time, Bridey enjoys an active
lifestyle, she enjoys going to live music shows, and kisses from her Boston Terrier, Enzo!
Maarten Oelering is co-founder of Postmastery, an email systems and deliverability consulting company.
Prior to starting Postmastery five years ago, he has been working in the email domain since 2000, as CTO
of a leading Dutch ESP and as deliverability consultant. Maarten is also an expert on PowerMTA, having
worked with it since 2004 on a daily basis. His second love is coding, and nowadays he's leading the
development of Postmastery's delivery analytics application.

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Agenda
• Port25 answers questions from the PowerMTA
community about topics that include:
• Update on Port25 and SparkPost
• PowerMTA Product Update
• How Postmastery complements Port25
• Q&A

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Bridey Medeiros
Customer Success Manager, Port25

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• Port25 acquired by
Message Systems in 2015
• PowerMTA
on-premises solution
• SparkPost cloud offering
How is Port25 and SparkPost Related?

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Working Together

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Juan Altmayer Pizzorno
Co-Founder, Port25

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● A look back at the milestones...
○ v4.5 released in September of 2015
■ mostly quarterly releases (newest is v4.5r15)
■ 3-5 customer requested features per build
■ 56 new features since then, among which:
● MX- and IP-based automatic queue rollup
● SMTPUTF8
● GDPR “privacy-policy”
● various security improvements
What’s Been Going on with PowerMTA?

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● v5.0b1 (beta 1) available since October 15
○ new web monitor
○ full JSON API support
○ HTTP submission API
○ DANE support
○ TLS performance improvement
What’s New with PowerMTA?

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• v4.5 probably bug fixes only
(as team concentrates on v5.0)
• v5.0b2 in Q4
• more web monitor improvements
• “reroute” back to pool when
disabling a Virtual MTA
• HTTP delivery hooks
• revised User’s Guide
• v5.0 in Q1 and beyond
• automatic encoding of MIME
body parts
• Webhook accounting data
• coordinating connection limits
• We would love to hear your ideas!
What’s the Future of PowerMTA at SparkPost?

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Maarten Oelering
Co-founder/CTO, Postmastery

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Who is Postmastery and its History with Port25?
• Consulting company helping senders with
infrastructure and deliverability
• Team of 8 email “gurus” based in West Europe
servicing customers globally
• Product support versus questions about your
infrastructure, your processes, or your
performance

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Postmastery Services Help PowerMTA Users

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Postmastery Use Case: Email Delivery Assessment
Results:
Approach:
Configuration,
performance or
deliverability
Infrastructure
Processes
Practices
Configuration leveraging
features and best practices
More timely delivery
and better utilisation of servers
Optimal conditions
for reputation and deliverability
Review:
Configuration
Performance
Messages
Reputation
Concerns:

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Events

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What Are the Upcoming Port25 Community Events?
What: Annual Port25 European Summit
Where: Amsterdam
When: September 2019

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Catch up with Port25 and Postmastery!
• P25 and Postmastery are members and supporters of
M3AAWG (Messaging Malware Mobile Anti-Abuse Working
Groups)
• 3 events/year - 2019 schedule:
• San Francisco 18Feb19 - 21Feb19
• Budapest, Hungary, 03Jun19 - 06Jun19
• Montreal, Canada, 14Oct19 -17Oct19
• CSA (Certified Senders Alliance) with Port25 and
Postmastery, Cologne, Germany 10Apr19 - 12Apr19
Come out and meet us!

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Q & A

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Have more questions about Port25?
bridey@port25.com
Have more questions about Postmastery?
https://www.postmastery.com
Learn More About Port25 and Postmastery
Thank You