# My E-Mails are Being Filtered as Spam!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 26, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-e-mails-are-being-filtered-as-spam/221169 "2003-12-26T22:49:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lucwarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@lucwarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucwarm)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-e-mails-are-being-filtered-as-spam/221169/1 "2003-12-26T22:49:08Z")
Is there anything I can do to make my e-mail less spamlike? Thanks!! ---
**Author:** ![leenmi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@leenmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leenmi)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-e-mails-are-being-filtered-as-spam/221169/2 "2003-12-26T22:52:57Z")
Do you know why? Are you including spam-like phrases such as V_I_A_G_R\*A or some such nonsense? Or are you the victim of the anti-spam organizations including a whole ISP on the spam list? ---
**Author:** ![lucwarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@lucwarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucwarm)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-e-mails-are-being-filtered-as-spam/221169/3 "2003-12-26T22:53:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lucwarm \* > \*\*Is there anything I can do to make my e-mail less spamlike? > > Thanks!! \*\* And no, I don’t have “teen lesbians” in the subject line. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-e-mails-are-being-filtered-as-spam/221169/4 "2003-12-26T23:25:17Z")
What ISP are you using? Which ISP is filtering out your mail? Can you send to anyone on that service? How many mails are you sending out at a time? More info please. Eric ---
**Author:** ![leenmi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@leenmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leenmi)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-e-mails-are-being-filtered-as-spam/221169/5 "2003-12-26T23:28:48Z")
How do you know your email is being filtered as spam? If you are not spamming, and are not sending the same email to hundreds of addresses or sending hundreds of emails in short periods of time, it is still possible that your ISP has been blocked by the spam filters. In some cases, when a spammer uses an ISP and the ISP doesn’t respond satisfactorily to a complaint about the abuse of service, the keepers of the spam list will add all addresses registered to that ISP to the spam list. Anyone subscribing to the list will filter the addressess from that ISP as spam. The innocent are punished with the guilty. Valid business transactions mean nothing when fighting the war on spam. Are you a victim of such a situation? If you don’t want to post how you know you are being filtered as spam then try this: Find out how the receiver that is filtering you filters. What product is used? That product has a rule set. Go down the list of rules and evaluate whether or not you match the rule criteria. You may match more than one. Are you in the situation where someone has told you “hey, I noticed an email from you in the spam folder on hotmail. Why are you spam?” If so, is it possible that they marked one of your earlier emails, accidentaly, as spam? Need more information. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-e-mails-are-being-filtered-as-spam/221169/6 "2003-12-27T00:53:23Z")
My company discovered that Yahoo was filtering _everything_ from our Domain Host’ IP block as spam. I had e-mailed myself a file from work to filddle with at home, that’s how I discovered it. I had a few co-workers try to e-mail Yahoo accounts, they all ended up in the Bulk Mail folder. (We don’t do any e-mail maarketing at all, so we knew we hadn’t been naughty.) I called out domain host. The support guy tried e-mailing himself at a Yahoo address. Same thing. The entire IP block was being filtered to the Bulk Folder. You should find out if it’s jsut you or your entire ISP or Domain Host (if you’re e-mailing through them). Sometimes one single jackass gets an entire IP in doo-doo. It also hapened to my company’s other domain host because some jackass had used a virus to hijack a proxy server to relay spam – the entire IP block got blacklisted. Our DNS host talked to the sercie that had blacklisted our IP block them and it was cleared up within 24 hours. Contact your ISP or domain host and let them know. Assuming you haven’t done anything naughty, then it’s possible a similar issue has cropped up and it can be smoothed over with a chat between the two companies.