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Correct. One of my clients is a construction firm specializing with churches. It is not infrequent for them to be communicating about a project with a church
by stevenjgarner 4y ago
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One of my clients is a construction firm specializing with churches. It is not infrequent for them to be communicating about a project with a church - often to a role account (e.g. info@church.org), which is step 1 towards being filed as spam - where the role account is shared with a dozen or more people. The building manager will check the email on Mon, Wed and Fri and every other day there will be a number of well-intentioned volunteers at least one of which will click on the spam button dooming my client's email into the abyss. Weeks later we find the church has gone with a different contractor, as they "could never get a response" from my client.
We will go so far as to donate a new IT/Cloud system to the church (small $$ compared with the project) just to ensure reliable communication. But then they think we are just trying to buy them.
Now my client has a blacklisted domain/mail server IP, and bids they send out are rejected as spam by the providers to other churches.
Makes no difference if we are hosting the mail server or if it is a 3rd party mail service. As soon as a customer is sold, we try and move them off email into a web-application framework for ongoing legitimate communication. Again a lot of resistance.
- daydream 4y agoDoes this happen even if you move your client to Google Workspace/Office 365? Using one of those two should eliminate the problem. Was that your experience?
- orangepurple 4y agoLife is so easy if you just hand over your personal agency to monopolies and billionaires who don't actually care about you /s
- daydream 4y agoIf the alternative is that your construction firm fails and you and everyone else are out of a job - well your email hosting choice is a weird hill to die on.
- stevenjgarner 4y agoNo. Workspace gave no apparent protection. Why/how would it?
- daydream 4y agoPresumably most of the firms clients are themselves hosting email on Workspace or 365. And Google/MS might treat email originating from their own systems differently than inbound email originating elsewhere. Also I'd expect all the firms competitors to be using Workspace or 365, so if using them gives no apparent protection, presumably they should be suffering from this as well?