I have my own domain and use the email address charlotte@mydomain.co.uk. The domain is registered with 1&1 and until recently, I've been using their servers for running my email. Recently, I became aware that my outbound emails are being marked as spam by Google. It's not just them, either - Hotmail and several others also seem to be dumping emails originating out of 1&1 servers straight in the spam box.
This is really, really annoying because I'm just starting to make some really good contacts with my new business venture and I can never be sure that my emails are getting through. If firms are using Google at their end, I'm reasonably sure they're marking me as spam.
So the first thing I did was call 1&1 who told me that I ought to ask recipients to mark my address as not spam. I explained that I'm sending a lot of speculative email, but they didn't understand. Then they said maybe I ought to change my subject line to something less spammy. Basically, their tech support people suck and they're not 'fessing up to me about a known issue:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/SSRu248gctkThe second thing I did was move my email to AAISP (with whom we have our broadband). I thought that would be golden, but I'm having the same problem. Maybe my email address or domain has now been marked, I don't know. Either way, when I send an email to a Gmail inbox, I'm spam.
So what I *could* do is to take my email to Google. They'll charge me three quid or so a month and it'll be all sorted, but I'll have joined skynet and I'm buggered if I want to do that at this stage.
What I need to ask is how I can get this sorted. Are there any email experts in the house? Can I email your Gmail address for you to look at what's going on for me?