Signing your messages with DKIM and supporting SPF should increase your chances of avoiding the Google sin bin.
-----Original Message----- From: Steve Conrad <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: OTish: Google calls me spam Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 18:49:05 -0800 Has anyone else noticed how gmail dumps messages from new mailservers into the spam heap by default? A bit of a slap in the face after going to all the trouble of setting up my own domain and hosting it on my own smtp server. I can see where it fits into google's panoptic vision of global domination to undermine the efforts of independant operators, but this still seems a bit over the top. While I have no interest in salting google's data mine with my personal correspondence, unfortunately, many of those with whom I correspond seem cheerfully oblivious to the down side of total surveilence. I grow tired of telling them to go fish my mail out of their spam folder. Eventually, if they mark a few of them as not spam, it starts to work as expected. Still, I can't help but feel that google is abusing its position of market dominance in order to make perfectly standards compliant, well configured mail servers look like such a shabby hack that people are really better off sticking with gmail and leaving smtp to the experts. Thoughts? Work arounds? ---------------------------------------------------------------- If the service is free, you're the product.
