Why are my messages being marked as spam

[H2B2]

[Guest]

Hi H2B2

Very interesting post, is taking some time to work through but as someone using Google Apps I came across the following that may be of interest to others.

In relation to the setting up of abuse and postmaster accounts, these are already set up by Google which they apparantly monitor. Therefore the abuse and postmaster addresses are reserved aliases that can't be used to create new users or nicknames.

http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/ans ... swer=33389

regards
jmids

[Gary Winnick]

There is nothing you can add to a spam message to make it not spam. Spam is not about CONTENT, it is about CONSENT.

If your member does not have the consent of the receiving party, it is spam and should be reported. This looks like a contact update business. I get these type of mesages all the time for people who I have never met. My CEO gets them from people who attended a speech he made. All of them are reported as spam.

If the message headers do not clearly identify the member sending the invitation, it will likely be seen as spam and reported. I only look at the sender, subject and first couple lines of the message (as viewed in webmail) to determine the bulk of my spam. Anything questionable, I do a closer look.

[caramel1982]

Thanks for this post. It is very informational. I have a mailing lists and sometimes my emails to them are considered as a spam even if those are legitimate email. I really appreciated this forum because I learned a lot. Now, for sure I will no longer be considered as a spammer.


Regards,
Caramel

[Slimey]

thanks for this, previously I had ignored the RFC complience, which got me marked as spam

[corey26]

Im starting to think that some of my business emails are being flagged as well. What steps would I need to take to ensure that they are getting to the intended target and not being deleted or flagged?

[H2B2]

[indidginus]

Thanks a lot for the informative post. I've got a question about the Check your Domain Name Server (DNS) configuration section. I made use of http://www.lookupserver.com to check my settings & these were the results:

FORWARD DNS LOOKUP www.deviantdidg.com IP = 193.202.110.149

REVERSE DNS LOOKUP 193.202.110.149 = srv149.one.com

I'm not sure however if that is a good or bad result! In the reverse dns lookup should I expect to see www.deviantdidg.com instead of srv149.one.com?

[JamesK]

This is the best thread that i've read on this subject. Thank you. The word "spam" has always kinda scared me as I don't ever want to be called a spammer and have my accounts shut down.

[lexi82]

With the hotmail account its not that bad, it manages my spam e-mail pretty well.

[bigloser]

I usually had my messages marked as spam though i'm not spamming. I do really have a hard time on this. Your post gives more ideas as how not to have messages marked as a spam.

[agrassoh]

Hello,

I had the same problem, but after creating these two e-mail account :
admin@yourdomain.com and abuse@yourdomain.com

I could find a solution to this problem, but I don't if it works for you.

Good Luck.

[myrawalker]

I was actually facing this problem. However, this time, i think i can get over it. I need to work on these instructions.

[bestaffiliateprogram]

Quite frequently i face this problem and don't know how to deal with it. I have always seen this problem when i try to insert email in html format when i use a lot of images.

So, recently i found that if i try to use plain text syntax then i have almost 80% success rate.

Regards
Rupali

[livyluv22]

using simple syntax has helped me alot. Also not sending too many messages in a short time.