How to Ensure Personal Email does NOT goto Bulk Mail Folder

askthetrainer · #1 (**permalink**) 08-17-2009, 09:38 AM

Hello,

I get tons of questions about health & fitness which I used to respond to in detailed emails.

I found out that most of my emails were going into bulk mail folders of yahoo, gmail, and hotmail addresses (has to be 90% of people's emails?).

So I spent hours and hours for nothing as the people probably missed my responses.

My email is mike@mywebsite.com

Does anyone know if there is a way I can get yahoo, gmail, hotmail and any other major email services to accept my emails and not put them in spam?

meloncholy · #2 (**permalink**) 08-17-2009, 01:19 PM

I'm not an expert on this, but two things I've found cause problems are

Using BCC to send the email. These would end up in the bulk messages folder on Hotmail. Not sure if they do anymore. As you're sending personal emails there's no need to do this (and you probably aren't anyway, but thought I'd just mention it).

Using a dodgy SMTP server. This can include sending emails out through your host's SMTP server if your host hasn't been sufficiently careful about preventing spam in the past (e.g. mandatory, verifiable double opt in policies). If this is a problem, you could think about getting Google Apps for your domain, which will also give you a shiny Gmail account.

In all this, I've of course assumed your emails are legit and don't look spammy by including (for instance) links to college loans as you do in your site sidebar.

Hope that's useful. Your training site looks good, by the way.

askthetrainer · #3 (**permalink**) 08-17-2009, 01:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by meloncholy

I'm not an expert on this, but two things I've found cause problems are

Using BCC to send the email. These would end up in the bulk messages folder on Hotmail. Not sure if they do anymore. As you're sending personal emails there's no need to do this (and you probably aren't anyway, but thought I'd just mention it).

Using a dodgy SMTP server. This can include sending emails out through your host's SMTP server if your host hasn't been sufficiently careful about preventing spam in the past (e.g. mandatory, verifiable double opt in policies). If this is a problem, you could think about getting Google Apps for your domain, which will also give you a shiny Gmail account.

In all this, I've of course assumed your emails are legit and don't look spammy by including (for instance) links to college loans as you do in your site sidebar.

Hope that's useful. Your training site looks good, by the way.

I use godaddy (secureserver.net) for my email. I just use regular email, have a signature with a couple of links. Have never sent out spam or mass emails of any kind.

The Gmail account you talk about? You mean just sign up for a gmail account or use some special google ap.

Thanks for the compliments ..

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