How to stop my email from going into peoples SPAM

Buchanan0204 · 15 Nov 2011 at 09:53

I have a personal domain which I have an email attached to. Over the last while, when I email people. It goes into their spam folder. Is there anything I can do to stop this? Security certificates or something along those lines? I'm not an expert in this field as you can probably tell.

Cheers for any help.

edscdk · 15 Nov 2011 at 10:03

set up a free gmail account and point yout MX at that? everyone trusts googles MX servers...

however if you are selling Viagra, hot babes, russina wives and hardcore porn I suspect their spam filters will still filter it out...

I assume you are putting a subject, text in the body and dont have a stupid link in your auto sig....

edscdk · 15 Nov 2011 at 10:03

also check your domain is not listed on sorbs and the like... google sorbs and it will give links to their web site so you can test to see if your domain is listed

Buchanan0204 · 15 Nov 2011 at 11:52

I'm not selling anything at all. I always use a subject. Only link in my sig is to the website.

I checked it with my Yahoo mail. It never went into it's spam folder. So only certain people are having it flag as spam. Obviously if people weren't so stupid, they would check their spam folder and it would be fine.

However... when they complain 7 days later you haven't got in touch or you don't reply to their emails. It becomes very annoying having to explain this.

They even receive an auto message when filling in the contact form, telling them to check spam folder.

It does cost me a little business here and there. I'd like to get it sorted. Don't fancy routing through google servers. They've been known to delay messages. I need to receive them as they're sent. Rather than 1 hour later.

Dj_Jestar · 15 Nov 2011 at 12:26

It's an email.. there's no guarantee for it to be either "on time" nor "not spam".

Pho · 15 Nov 2011 at 12:30

If you email me (sig/trust) I'll send you my work address if you like where you can send me a typical email, we've got SpamAssassin (widely used) set-up on there so I can give you a pretty good breakdown on why it's being detected as spam.

Staffy · 15 Nov 2011 at 12:43

If your domain is hosted on shared hosting you may find that the ip address/server that your domain is on has been blacklisted. Due to a dodgy site being hosted on it spamming etc.. Speak to the hosting company about it.

Another possibility is that some ejut has had hacked the email server and been spamming from it.

Buchanan0204 · 16 Nov 2011 at 08:40

Staffy said:
If your domain is hosted on shared hosting you may find that the ip address/server that your domain is on has been blacklisted. Due to a dodgy site being hosted on it spamming etc.. Speak to the hosting company about it.

Another possibility is that some ejut has had hacked the email server and been spamming from it.

Sounds very likely. I never even gave this a thought. Good thinking batman

Buchanan0204 · 16 Nov 2011 at 08:42

Pho said:
If you email me (sig/trust) I'll send you my work address if you like where you can send me a typical email, we've got SpamAssassin (widely used) set-up on there so I can give you a pretty good breakdown on why it's being detected as spam.

I'll just do that. Thanks!