Blaise Alleyne

Help: Google is disappearing my email from the Internet...

Blaise Alleyne at

Well, from Gmail -- which is more or less the same thing, unfortunately...

I've just realized that my email is going straight to spam. Even simple personal emails that I send, from multiple domains that I have tried which are configured on my mail server.

It's been happening for weeks too... that is, first reports I received from people were back in December... and it's really hard to tell if it started earlier... I think if I'm in someone's contacts, then it goes to Inbox, but otherwise it seems that mail from my server (IP address?) is going straight to spam...

o.0

I'm not on any blacklists: http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklista198.50.117.186&run=toolpage

And I have a perfect 10/10 from http://www.mail-tester.com/

And all I can find from Google is this page of Bulk Sender Guidelines -- no way to confirm if you're IP has been blacklisted, or to request removal...

... what do I do?

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This happened to me once when an agency was working with me to improve my CV. The man there said he didn't receive my email, however I asked him to check his spam folder and sure enough it was there. He was using a Microsoft Outlook setup I believe.
My belief is that someone you sent an email to marked your email as junk which has then caused the spam filter to treat your email address as spam for anybody else receiving your email. I know you have checked your email address for that, however there is no way of knowing for certain.
Hopefully it will right itself in time.

jrobertson at 2015-01-09T01:09:37Z

Actually, no trouble with gmail for me, only some RBLs.

joeyh at 2015-01-09T03:22:17Z

@Christopher Allan Webber yikes.

@joeyh ah, that's good... RBLs are annoying, but at least there's usually some kind of removal request mechanism...

Blaise Alleyne at 2015-01-09T05:39:07Z

It has to be more than a single person marking you as spam though, it would have to be a trend or a critical mass of users...

Blaise Alleyne at 2015-01-09T05:39:52Z