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Could you offer some more information on this? What was the reason why your emails were marked as spam? From what I've seen while debugging such issues the pro

by geoah 11y ago

Could you offer some more information on this? What was the reason why your emails were marked as spam? From what I've seen while debugging such issues the problems were always from misconfigured outgoing servers and their dns, so I would be very interested in knowing why this has happened. ps. You might consider enabling comments on your blog so there is a place for such discussions.

jacquesm 11y ago
Google does not specify any reason, the mail just silently gets dumped in the spam folder. If these were first time contacts it would be one thing but they're definitely not. I guess this is Google's way of telling me that I should switch to Gmail if I expect to see my mail being delivered.
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- thaumaturgy 11y ago
  This almost exacerbated a misunderstanding between some of my family members. I recently worked to get my sister back in touch with her grandfather, took some coaxing on both sides, and then grandpa decided to email my sister, who never responded, so he tried one more time and then concluded that she didn't really want to talk to him. She uses gmail and his messages were dropping into her junk folder. She almost exclusively uses her phone for her gmail access, so she never saw the messages. Since gmail doesn't give anything like SpamAssassin headers for messages, there's nothing I can do to troubleshoot this aside from trial-and-error.
  - jacquesm 11y ago
    This is precisely the reason for my post. I'll get this fixed, one way or another, but likely there are numerous people that have this issue without realizing it.
michaelt 11y ago
He mentions he can't always tell who is and who is not using gmail, so the people he's mailing might be forwarding to gmail. Gmail's support for this is not very good - for example, if someone with a SPF record e-mails an address that forwards to gmail it gets marked as an SPF failure because the forwarding server isn't an approved sender for the sender's domain. Unless your forwarding server supports SRS, which is very rare.

by geoah 11y ago

jacquesm 11y ago

Google does not specify any reason, the mail just silently gets dumped in the spam folder. If these were first time contacts it would be one thing but they're definitely not. I guess this is Google's way of telling me that I should switch to Gmail if I expect to see my mail being delivered.

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thaumaturgy 11y ago
This almost exacerbated a misunderstanding between some of my family members. I recently worked to get my sister back in touch with her grandfather, took some coaxing on both sides, and then grandpa decided to email my sister, who never responded, so he tried one more time and then concluded that she didn't really want to talk to him. She uses gmail and his messages were dropping into her junk folder. She almost exclusively uses her phone for her gmail access, so she never saw the messages. Since gmail doesn't give anything like SpamAssassin headers for messages, there's nothing I can do to troubleshoot this aside from trial-and-error.
- jacquesm 11y ago
  This is precisely the reason for my post. I'll get this fixed, one way or another, but likely there are numerous people that have this issue without realizing it.

michaelt 11y ago

He mentions he can't always tell who is and who is not using gmail, so the people he's mailing might be forwarding to gmail. Gmail's support for this is not very good - for example, if someone with a SPF record e-mails an address that forwards to gmail it gets marked as an SPF failure because the forwarding server isn't an approved sender for the sender's domain. Unless your forwarding server supports SRS, which is very rare.