Emails going to junk

by KenWCMG Posted: 10 years ago 7 replies

Can anyone help? I run a mountaineering guiding business, and often send out emails for one of a few reasons:

1) Newsletter via Mail Chimp (free account)
2) Individual emails to prospective and booked clients
3) Group emails using bcc to my list of instructors and guides asking availability/offering work.

I am using Thunderbird as my email client, so that I can keep an eye on 3 business email account + my personal gmail account, but am finding those that are sent from my business accounts can (I'm not sure how often) end up in recipients' junk or spam folders which clearly is bad news.

Can anyone suggest ways around this please? Would I be better sending all emails from my web-based gmail account (and change senders email address there)? I'm certain that my emails aren't spammy in nature.

Any help would be appreciated!

#email marketing #emails #junk

Egyfitness 10 years ago

Can you see your emails spam score on Mailchimp ?
ironpump21 10 years ago

you can use a spam score checker and just keep editing until you lower the score
KenWCMG 10 years ago

Thanks, I ran some tests on a number of emails sent from Thunderbird, I also ran the tests on identical emails sent from my on-line Gmail account (from the same email account), and one factor kept appearing on every email sent through Thunderbird, which doesn't appear when sent from elsewhere:

Score: 1.8, Reason: 'Bulk email fingerprint (Gecko) found, Rule: RATWARE_GECKO_BUILD
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- scott white 10 years ago
  
  Try using Newsletters spam test @Newsletters spam test by mail-tester.com
  Hope this helps.
  Scott
  
  [ 2 ] Thanks
  
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KenWCMG 10 years ago

My hosts said that SPF needed to be activated.

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Emails going to junk

KenWCMG • 10 years ago • 7 replies

Can anyone help? I run a mountaineering guiding business, and often send out emails for one of a few reasons: 1) Newsletter via Mail Chimp (free account)