MY E-MAILS ARE ALL GOING INTO SPAM JUNK FOLDERS. WHY?

[360boy]

Can anyone advise me of this problem.
Each month I send out a sales list to everybody on my address book, via e-mail.
It has just been brought to my attention, that my e-mails are going straight into the recipient's junk files upon receipt, and hence, not getting read.
I checked this myself, by sending an e-mail to myself and family members. All go straight into the junk files.
This has only just started happening.
Can anyone help?

[vipers]

Cant help, but assuming you are using say yahoo, email them and ask them, I emailed a pal of mine, and it ended up in the junk folder.

Best I can offer I'm afraid, good luck.

[slapmatt]

Are you sending each email individually, or are you sending them all at once with every address in the To: field?

If you are sending them all at once, then this is classic spam and your email will be flagged as such.

[360boy]

slapmatt said:

Are you sending each email individually, or are you sending them all at once with every address in the To: field?

If you are sending them all at once, then this is classic spam and your email will be flagged as such.

I have over 1000 addresses in my Ad book.
However, I send them in batches of 50.
I have never has them flagged up as SPAM before, but the last lot that I sent out, were reaching their destinations in the client's Junk Mail files.
Any ideas?

[Road_Terrorist]

Try and run it through a spam score checker to see if you are at a level that is over the limit, if you have a certain format, writing style or words then it can get flagged. Try and check one of the flagged mails it should give a score in the header somewhere (Go to View>Options in Outlook).

You could also have been blacklisted somewhere recently, which can be an absolute PITA to find out where and correct.

[JonRB]

360boy said:

I have over 1000 addresses in my Ad book.
However, I send them in batches of 50.

You're not just dumping all the addresses into the "To:" field, are you?

[360boy]

JonRB said:

360boy said:

I have over 1000 addresses in my Ad book.
However, I send them in batches of 50.

You're not just dumping all the addresses into the "To:" field, are you?

They are going into the Bcc section, in batches of 50.

[__LEE__]

Are you having a problem with one email provider? e.g. hotmail, yahoo etc.

I would consider the content and also the subject seems to play a big part with SPAM filters these days.

What do you sell?

I have had a fair bit of experience with this as the company I work for sometimes has the same problem. If it is just one email provider then create a test address and try altering the content slightly to see if you can bypass the filters.

[JonRB]

360boy said:

They are going into the Bcc section, in batches of 50.

Well, that's something I guess.

In all honesty, I'm surprised your ISP isn't trapping you sending that many messages as it is classic spam behaviour (note: I'm not accusing you of being a spammer).

You may be better off using a commercial newsletter or mailshot service who are geared up for this sort of thing. When you're talking about 1000-odd addresses you're getting to the point where you want dedicated software to handle bounces, unsubscribes, etc.

[JonRB]

__LEE__ said:

I would consider the content and also the subject seems to play a big part with SPAM filters these days.

Indeed. And don't discount the fact that some of those 1000-odd people may have flagged the emails as spam and got the sender onto a blacklist like SpamCop or SpamHaus, meaning a lot of spam filters will automatically kill it without even scanning it.

[__LEE__]

JonRB said:

__LEE__ said:

I would consider the content and also the subject seems to play a big part with SPAM filters these days.

Indeed. And don't discount the fact that some of those 1000-odd people may have flagged the emails as spam and got the sender onto a blacklist like SpamCop or SpamHaus, meaning a lot of spam filters will automatically kill it without even scanning it.

Agreed, we found that changing one word in the subject line was enough to convince hotmail to allow the mail to not get junked.

Sending from an alternative email address maybe a good suggestion to combat what JonRB has suggested could be happening.

[arcturus]

Or use specialist software such as GroupMail (www.infacta.com) which will allow you to address each email individually and push it directly to the recipients mailbox without going through your own ISP's mail servers. Plus other useful features.