Thanks Brian and Brad. Thankfully the solution was not so painful. I e-mail Hostgator, explained the situation, and asked if I could be moved to a different server/ip address.
They got back to me quickly, saying: "I have installed something called DomainKeys on your domains which helps prevent free email services like yahoo and gmail from marking emails from a domain as spam." And he told me a few other things in case that didn't work. But wouldn't you know it, it worked perfectly! So for anyone else on shared hosting who may run into this problem--tell your host to install DomainKeys! Thanks again guys! Jeff On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jeff zemla wrote: > > I have tried altering the content of the message, but nothing seems to >> work, >> which leads me to believe it is being flagged as spam based on where it >> originates from. But seeing as the website has no content on it (just a >> line of text that says "Things will be here shortly") i dont know why >> gmail >> would have a preconceived notion that it's a spamming site. >> > > This is one problem with reputation-based systems for detecting potential > spam. You may have a nearby network neighbor that is responsible for > generating a lot of spam (which seems likely, seeing as you say you bought > the domain from hostgator.com). > > Or, the IP address you were assigned may have been used by spammers before > it was re-assigned to you. > > There are a whole host of other reputational issues that you may be dealing > with, but this should give you some idea. > > > Fixing a tarnished reputation is hard. Very hard. Spammers don't care, > since they just move on to somewhere else. But for the rest of us, it's a > real pain. > > In the case of the first problem mentioned above (guilt by association), > you're probably being caught by a blacklist that covers whole networks of > machines, and there may not be any way for you to get off these blacklists. > If you're on an IP-address specific blacklist, you may be able to get your > provider to issue you a new address that is not blacklisted, or you may be > able to get those blacklist owners to update their list to remove your > address. > > Another option would be to move your domain and services to another > provider, one that is much less friendly to spammers, and avoids both of the > problems mentioned above. > > > You could potentially sign up for service with a company like Habeas (for > their "Safe List" service) or Return Path (for their "Sender Score > Certified" service). If you're a small non-profit, they'll charge you a > one-time fee, examine how your systems are set up and that you meet all > appropriate "best practices" requirements, and then that will be that. > > If you're not a small non-profit, they'll do the same thing for you, but > they'll charge you an annual fee. > > Habeas has the better reputation in the business, but is more expensive. > Both are supported out-of-the-box with SpamAssassin, so they'll not only > help you with all of the other customers with whom they have existing > contracts and use the Habeas "Safe List" as a whitelist for incoming e-mail, > but will also help you with anyone who runs a relatively generic install of > SpamAssassin. > > Again, Habeas helps with sites running SpamAssassin more than Return Path, > by improving your score by a full 8.0 points instead of just 4.0 points, and > many sites run with 10.0 points being a guaranteed non-spam message, and 5.0 > being a probable non-spam message. > > Any ideas? >> > > And way you look at it, it sounds like you've got a lot of work ahead of > you. > > -- > Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
