Comment by jeroenhd
1 month ago
It's easy, you just have to have a regular, decently sized volume of non-spam emails, and suddenly your email stops being marked as spam!
The logic isn't even that bad. SPF and DKIM serve to prove to the email who the sender is. That doesn't mean much if the sender is a spammer. Verifying identity claims is only the first part in checking email for spam, the harder part is checking if that identity is someone you trust.
When you email Outlook or Google, you're better sending more than a few every single day, and the recipient better manually drag those emails from their spam folders to their inbox, or they're all being learned as spam.
And you have to build up the volume gradually. In the industry this is called "warming up IP addresses". See for example https://help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/2788598-how-to-war... or https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/dedicated-ip-warmi...
which goes to the original title. spammers are better that this stuff then regular businesses.
> you just have to have a regular, decently sized volume of non-spam emails
But if you have a regular decent size of emails coming from your domain, that is more likely to be spam than if you have a small number of intermittent emails coming from a domain.
so my personal domain just needs to send newsletters to millions of people, or ... how exactly? what's decent size? how frequently?
> It's easy, you just have to have a regular, decently sized volume of non-spam emails, and suddenly your email stops being marked as spam!
The domain is new and didn't send a single email until I tested it.
Edit: The domain is actually a bit old but was parked/inactive for a while, though the email was used only for receiving.
Yup, that'll get you stuck in spam limbo alright. Good luck climbing out if it if you're initiating conversations with anyone on Gmail or Outlook (or, even worse, corporate Outlook).
Those email services will usually have no trouble with replies to emails sent from their service, so if you get someone to email you first you'll save them the trouble of dragging your email from their spam folder to their inbox.
With Outlook, in my university the problem was that when we send emails they disappeared mid air, no bounce, no spam folder. The solution was that they must write an email from the Outlook address, after that we are added to a secret good list and we can write them.
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