I have a question about spam. I have been de-Goolefing my life as much as possible. I've shifted my email from gmail to my personal domain email hosted at HostGator. My domain registrar is Hover. I'm using Thunderbird, in plain text mode, on a Linux box. An email, containing no links, sent to a Yahoo address ended up marked as spam. Any thoughts on why? I've never used my domain to send emails, therefore, I assume, it can't be listed in any spam filters as a spamming domain, right? #email
@elaterite to expand upon further. Most cloud or cheap hosting is blocked, because they have been abused for years as cheap and easy spam sources. It's an IP/subnet block so you can't easily get around it
@bhhaskin Even if HostGator is doing DKIM and SPF validation as one commenter suggested? What if I used email originating from my domain registrar, Hover?
@elaterite If your mail server isn't using DMARC authentication, that can result in it getting marked as spam. Is it doing DKIM and SPF validation? All things to research & check.
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