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What causes those nasty email returns?
- Thread starter gabagoo
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From what I know….
Their server (who they use) might be blocking yours (who you use)
Their server (who they use) might be blocking yours (who you use)
Solventinkjet
DIY Printer Fixing Guide
If you do email marketing and get enough complaints, you can be black listed which is then used in email filtering programs. Some companies just set their spam filters too high and miss important emails too.
because the idiots who administer their email are not terribly f**king good at it
my largest client replaced my company with a large MSP when i decided i was semi retired.
it has been 18 months and my email doesn't arrive reliably
(i hosted email since 1992 but you can only have one hand in the pot at a time & i told them to take over...)
spam filtering is not static. people complain they are getting garbage and whoever is administering the email "turns up the volume" and more email bounces
you can waste some time going over spam guidelines but it is a pain in the ass
Most people have their webspace hosted on shared servers. Those shared servers host lots and lots of different clients. If some of those clients start spamming email, it will result in essentially the server getting listed as a source of spam. So now your emails are treated a spam. Even if your customer adds your email as an exception, it could get overwritten any time the spam filter is updated.
The reason gmail "always" works is because no one is crazy enough to block millions of emails coming from google's servers.
This is why I pay Google $6/mo to host my email. It's not perfect, but I very rarely get an email kicked back. If you don't want to use Google, you can also use Microsoft reliably. Outside of those 2, there are lots of smaller companies you can use. Many I'm sure are reliable. I just went with Google because it made my life the easiest.
The reason gmail "always" works is because no one is crazy enough to block millions of emails coming from google's servers.
This is why I pay Google $6/mo to host my email. It's not perfect, but I very rarely get an email kicked back. If you don't want to use Google, you can also use Microsoft reliably. Outside of those 2, there are lots of smaller companies you can use. Many I'm sure are reliable. I just went with Google because it made my life the easiest.
Scotchbrite
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When we first setup our website we didn't want to pay for email hosting so we had it all forwarded to our Earthlink email. Once day we got a call from the host company telling me we HAD to set up our email hosting. We were marking emails as spam in Earthlink and since it was forwarded from our host company's server, Earthlink and others decided it was a problem server and started flagging emails from all of their clients as spam. Oops!
Scotchbrite
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I noticed today 75% of the junk mail I got was from a gmail address. I suppose that's why.
Solventinkjet
DIY Printer Fixing Guide
We switched to Google a few months ago and it's really good at filtering spam and keeping the good emails. I just wish the interface wasn't so wonky.
Johnny Best
Active Member
Matbe they just don't want to hear from you and your blocked.
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gabagoo
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You could be right...always happens when sending invoices primarily lol
Are you sending in a PDF ? Tx