My Outgoing Gmail Gets Marked as Spam
January 13, 2009 2:40 PM Subscribe
Why are my outgoing Gmail messages ending up people's spam folders?
No less than four times in the last two weeks I have had people tell me that they discovered an older email that I had sent them in their spam folders. These people are in different locations and using different employer-provided email systems. The emails I sent were normal business and casual emails: "Hey lets get together and talk about X" sorts of conversations.
What is going on and how can I get it to stop? Thanks.
No less than four times in the last two weeks I have had people tell me that they discovered an older email that I had sent them in their spam folders. These people are in different locations and using different employer-provided email systems. The emails I sent were normal business and casual emails: "Hey lets get together and talk about X" sorts of conversations.
What is going on and how can I get it to stop? Thanks.
Is there a link in your signature or did you send a link in the emails? My work account sends any emails containing links, from addresses outside the company, to my junk folder.
posted by juva at 3:20 PM on January 13, 2009
posted by juva at 3:20 PM on January 13, 2009
So the emails made it through, they were just filtered on their end to a spam folder?
It's probably getting marked as spam by the receiver's email filter. If those employers are running the same email software or have the same spam filter subscription, that may cause it. Basically, the software has a set of rules it uses to determine whether or not your message is spam. Something must have tripped it. An attachment, a keyword, a certain length, etc. This happens unintentionally more often than you think.
If they're using Outlook (and probably other software too) they can add you to their "safe senders list", which is under "Actions" in the menu toolbar. Unfortunately, this has to be done on their end, not yours.
posted by JuiceBoxHero at 3:44 PM on January 13, 2009
It's probably getting marked as spam by the receiver's email filter. If those employers are running the same email software or have the same spam filter subscription, that may cause it. Basically, the software has a set of rules it uses to determine whether or not your message is spam. Something must have tripped it. An attachment, a keyword, a certain length, etc. This happens unintentionally more often than you think.
If they're using Outlook (and probably other software too) they can add you to their "safe senders list", which is under "Actions" in the menu toolbar. Unfortunately, this has to be done on their end, not yours.
posted by JuiceBoxHero at 3:44 PM on January 13, 2009
Response by poster: Is there a link in your signature
Yes--could that be it? My signature contains a link to my professional blog. The thing is though that I just typed in the URL and Gmail automatically linkified it. Do I just have to remove it entirely?
posted by LarryC at 12:10 AM on January 14, 2009
Yes--could that be it? My signature contains a link to my professional blog. The thing is though that I just typed in the URL and Gmail automatically linkified it. Do I just have to remove it entirely?
posted by LarryC at 12:10 AM on January 14, 2009
Do I just have to remove it entirely?
In my case, that solved the problem; but you could try removing the hyperlink in the URL.
posted by juva at 1:14 AM on January 14, 2009
In my case, that solved the problem; but you could try removing the hyperlink in the URL.
posted by juva at 1:14 AM on January 14, 2009
Response by poster: OK, I have removed the link. Unfortunately I have no way to know immediately if that solved the problem.
posted by LarryC at 10:51 AM on January 22, 2009
posted by LarryC at 10:51 AM on January 22, 2009
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posted by COD at 3:15 PM on January 13, 2009