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?
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