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(I'm the author of TFA.) I have never had this issue. Generally the issue is either IP reputation of your server (common with VPS providers if you get a recycl

(I'm the author of TFA.) I have never had this issue. Generally the issue is either IP reputation of your server (common with VPS providers if you get a recycled IP of a previous spammer) or your domain name. Otherwise you are probably just unlucky enough to tickle the spam-prevention mechanisms in the almighty "algorithm" run by $BIGMAILER. I keep one "normie" email address at a $BIGMAILER for situations like this, but at this point in my life I mostly just shrug if some big advertising/surveillance company's email system won't deliver my mail, I just won't email that person. Be the change you want to see and all that.

nothrabannosir 7y ago
Honestly, you should put this quote in bold letters atop that article: > I mostly just shrug if some big advertising/surveillance company's email system won't deliver my mail, I just won't email that person. Because that changes the tone of the opening paragraphs significantly: > Luckily, running your own mail server is not as daunting as many would have you believe. Sure, if you can afford to shrug off deliverability issues to major e-mail providers. Then it is, I daresay, a walk in the park!
zepearl 7y ago
My IP reputation is absolutely >>pure<< and my domain name is ok. Still, usually when sending emails to Gmail & Hotmail my emails are "lost" (they don't even appear in the spam-inbox of the receivers). My usual workaround used to be to 1) login into my throwaway-account on their Gmail/Hotmail systems 2) send an email to my domain 3) reply to that email. After that usually my emails got accepted by those service providers, at least for a while. I admit that nowadays I don't even do that anymore - when I see a Gmail/Hotmail recipient I just ask for another email address at a different provider or I send the email using my provider's system.
- shiftpgdn 7y ago
  Is your domain name a .com? I've found that domains that are not .com domain names generally get flagged by the evil algorithim even if everything else is perfect.
  - zepearl 7y ago
    Come on - nowadays most domains are non-".com"... .
    - shiftpgdn 7y ago
      That's not even remotely true. I've worked in cloud/web hosting for years and 99% of users are using .com domains. Yes more new users may be registering ccTLDs or gTLDs but that's generally because they're cheap. And because they're so cheap it creates a nuisance as spammers use them. Look a the .xyz tld. It gives you a hugely negative score on any sort of mailbox spam scoring algorithm.
      - jlgaddis 7y ago
        I used to keep statistics on this, although I don't anymore. I remember seeing one day that not a single e-mail I received was a .info domain was legit -- that is, 100% of e-mails received from any .info domain was spam. No idea if that's still the case, though.

nothrabannosir 7y ago

Honestly, you should put this quote in bold letters atop that article: > I mostly just shrug if some big advertising/surveillance company's email system won't deliver my mail, I just won't email that person. Because that changes the tone of the opening paragraphs significantly: > Luckily, running your own mail server is not as daunting as many would have you believe. Sure, if you can afford to shrug off deliverability issues to major e-mail providers. Then it is, I daresay, a walk in the park!

zepearl 7y ago

My IP reputation is absolutely >>pure<< and my domain name is ok. Still, usually when sending emails to Gmail & Hotmail my emails are "lost" (they don't even appear in the spam-inbox of the receivers). My usual workaround used to be to 1) login into my throwaway-account on their Gmail/Hotmail systems 2) send an email to my domain 3) reply to that email. After that usually my emails got accepted by those service providers, at least for a while. I admit that nowadays I don't even do that anymore - when I see a Gmail/Hotmail recipient I just ask for another email address at a different provider or I send the email using my provider's system.

shiftpgdn 7y ago
Is your domain name a .com? I've found that domains that are not .com domain names generally get flagged by the evil algorithim even if everything else is perfect.
- zepearl 7y ago
  Come on - nowadays most domains are non-".com"... .
  - shiftpgdn 7y ago
    That's not even remotely true. I've worked in cloud/web hosting for years and 99% of users are using .com domains. Yes more new users may be registering ccTLDs or gTLDs but that's generally because they're cheap. And because they're so cheap it creates a nuisance as spammers use them. Look a the .xyz tld. It gives you a hugely negative score on any sort of mailbox spam scoring algorithm.
    - jlgaddis 7y ago
      I used to keep statistics on this, although I don't anymore. I remember seeing one day that not a single e-mail I received was a .info domain was legit -- that is, 100% of e-mails received from any .info domain was spam. No idea if that's still the case, though.