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I'd be very surprised if I was on some kind of static whitelist from the early days of Gmail. Such a list, if it exists, would likely be reserved for much highe
by jhugo 5y ago
I'd be very surprised if I was on some kind of static whitelist from the early days of Gmail. Such a list, if it exists, would likely be reserved for much higher-volume sending IPs.
I've helped others set up self hosting much more recently, and haven't had any reputation problems beyond the early period where the IP has no history. (It is important to find an IP that doesn't have recent bad reputation, but that is fairly easy to do. Unless your host is in the business of hosting spammers most IPs will be clean.)
The reality is honestly just that self-hosting mail is not as hard as all the people who don't do it say it is.
- ipaddr 5y agoGoogle would ignore your data because you are too small? Your ip and those of others who have sent mail to gmail have been recorded. Your reputation score is high. Try a new ip and see how hard it is.
- jhugo 5y agoIt's not exactly _hard_ on a new IP, as long as the IP is clean (which is reasonably simple to ensure, as long as your host isn't in the business of hosting spammers). You just have no reputation to start with, so you can't expect perfect deliverability from day one. But after some time (and we're talking weeks-to-months, not years), you'll be fine.
- ipaddr 5y agoSure if you want a lot of them to go through but not necessarily all. If someone marks your email as spam you may have to start all over again. If you want to send more than a few emails per day you have to warm the ip by sending specific volumes over time. It's doable, easier with a service to help you.
- jhugo 5y agoI guess it depends what kind of mail you're sending? I send & receive a lot of mail, but I can't imagine anyone has ever marked a mail from me as spam (except perhaps by clicking the wrong button), since it's just normal conversational personal & business mail. I never did any kind of deliberate 'warming up', I just set up the server and then started sending mail. In the first few months people would occasionally see mail from me go to their spam folder, but that hasn't happened in many years.