My emails (sent from gmail) are going into many of my intended recipients’ spam folders with alarming frequency now.

As ThierryF reported above, his Yahoo account had been hijacked – I’m also wondering the same for my gmail account, although I’ve never seen direct evidence of it.

Is there any way to know for sure if one’s email has been added to a universal blacklist?

And, if there is such a list, how do you get taken off it?

Thanks!

Drew

I suspected that the domains were there for a good reason, though I also was wondering how different email clients handled such domains.

If a filter could trap something for using “free” or similar words, I assumed it was possible for unrecognized landing page domains to also be problematic, as per Grok’s recommendations to include a link to the sender domain. Would you then say that these domains have no effect on deliverability, or that they are usually fine, but using a regular domain is preferred?

The Gmail guidelines are helpful. Would be nice to have standards across clients that are enforced

I’ve been paranoid for years about using “free” in personal emails, like “feel free to contact me at…”

I’ve substituted “if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask…”

I know ISPs are more relaxed about that stuff now

I agree completely with what Loren said. The other reasons (spammy words, background color, subscription date, etc) are secondary to authentication, spam complaints, and hard bounces.

I’d also add…

The “wonky” (your word) sender domain is often used by ESPs for reply-tracking purposes (a quick search of “rsys1.com” will identify the ESP).

The “funky landing page from equally shady domain” (again, your words) – https://mfgtrc.rsys1.net – is, as you’ve stated, “for special analytics tracking purposes.” Another search for “rsys1.net” will again point to the ESP.

Use of these tracking domains are common across many ESPs.

dj at bronto

- A lot of people likely signed up for the email newsletter primarliy to enter the weekly contest, and then after a few weeks descided they no longer wanted the emails – and hit the Gmail spam button rather than unsubscribing.

I signed up for the email, and the confirmation/welcome email was authenticated for SPF, but not DKIM. So assuming the regular emails also have SPF records, authentication is likely not the issue.

For more on what Gmail looks for, visit the Gmail site:
- http://mail.google.com/mail/help/bulk_mail.html

Loren McDonald
Silverpop

I have obviously changed straight away my password, but I am not sure how to remove my email address from the spammers list