On Sat, 19 Feb 2022, 01:10 Cian, <cian4apachebugzi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am also having a world of trouble getting my emails to Outlook users. > For reference, my work domain has one user (me). I have had the account > for about 9 months and I have not yet sent 100 emails. I typically send an > email to a single recipient, although I will occasionally CC a handful of > people. > > > > What I’ve tried: > > > > 1. I have also set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. I’m **pretty sure** > they’re solid. Emails still go to junk. > 2. Initially, I didn’t have anything actually at the website for my > domain, so I threw my executive summary into a google site. Emails still > go to junk > 3. I've checked our public IP and the domain name at mxtoolbox.com – > no errors, but it warns that a) my DMARC policy isn’t q or r, and b) it > doesn’t care for my SOA > 4. I tried to get on Microsoft’s SDNS and JMRP, but I was not able. I > am pretty sure I have a shared IP, but I don’t know how I would check > that. Microsoft also suggested I join the Return Path Safe Senders > program, but I am pretty sure I would need a dedicated IP for that. In any > case, I don’t love the idea of paying to get whitelisted so I can send 11 > emails a month. > 5. I’ve checked several sites and my domain isn’t on any blacklists. > However, I did register the domain through NameCheap, which is on the > UCEPROTECT_LVL3 list > 6. The domain is relatively new, as I said, but I don’t send any bulk > mail of any kind from it. All mail is either to people I specifically > know, people to whom I have received a personal introduction, or people > listed as contacts for their organization on public websites > 7. My mail is handled by Zoho Mail, so I haven’t done anything fancy > with the mail server. If there’s anything I should try, I will, but I > might need the instructions at a fifth-grade level > 8. I am fairly careful with my words, and the emails are appropriately > long, so I would be surprised if they were getting flagged for trigger > words. I have tried mail-tester.com and it did not object to the > body of my emails > 9. Mail-tester.com claims to test emails against SA, although I know > this is a contentious point around here. I bring it up, though, because > the fact that my TLD is “.space” raised some flags > 10. When I have called my contacts, they have been as confused as I am > that they did not receive my emails > 11. Emails I send to any other domains are never a problem spam-wise > > > > Notes: > > 1. I do not have a list-unsubscribe header in my emails, for one > because I don’t have a list, and for two, because I don’t really know how. > I can add one if necessary, although ideally I’d like the language to be > clear that my emails don’t go to a list of any kind > 2. I have a signature in my email. It has my phone number, but no > address because I don’t have a physical location yet. Some articles > suggested this is bad; I hate to put my home address in all my emails, but > I can if necessary. It’s in my Dun and Bradstreet profile, anyway > 3. My domain contacts are anonymized, courtesy of NameCheap. > NameCheap made this sound appealing, but I read somewhere that this makes > you look sketchy. I could fix this, if necessary. > > > > I suspect I’ve already given you the smoking gun, but if this isn’t enough > information to hit on the problem, I am happy to provide more > > > I don't think you mentioned whether you have a static or dynamic IP. With a dynamic IP you will have many problems sending emails; the only solution is to relay your outgoing emails through another mail server that has a static IP. >
