[PLUG] Gmail says we are sending spam

[Richard Owlett]

Have you asked whoever hosts the site for suggestions?
You might already be paying for an appropriate service.
I personally avoid "free" services (especially Google) as being 
too expensive.
YMMV ;/

On 3/12/2016 1:16 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> My wife has a small website (mindfulcooking.org) and an associated list of
> email contacts.  Over the years the contact list has grown to about 195.
> For quite a while the email was handled through the web site built by my
> son.  As the contact list got larger, we first moved to using mandrill, but
> very recently moved to Google apps.  (Were using evolution--it kept
> misbehaving).  Using Google apps kept my wife's email address @
> mindfulcooking.org, and promised to keep our mindfulcooking and personal
> email interfaces consistent.
>
> The first email she sent to the list went fine.  Two weeks later her second
> email was rejected by Gmail as spam.  I have tried with little success to
> understand what Google says to do to avoid this problem.  I understand that
> the constant increases in volume and sophistication of spam has caused
> constant tightening of spam controls, and we are suffering from that
> tightening.
>
> I do not  have sufficient understanding of email and the various
> authentication procedures to solve this problem.
>
> What suggestions do you experts have to offer?  Pay for a service?  A
> consultant to set up our Gmail?  Mailchimp? (we tried it briefly, but
> Mandrill was much easier and sufficient.  Now Mandrill is an integral part
> of Mailchimp.)
>
> Thanks for your ideas.
>
> -Denis
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