Spam filters?

[ciphergoth]

What's the best way to check what might be causing my mail to end up in spam filters? According to this search I'm not blacklisted:

http://www.mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist%3a80.68.89.15

but I've been finding it pretty difficult to reach people lately, and starting to think some sort of spam filtering might be responsible. Any ideas?

Comments

[reddragdiva]

What SMTP server is it going out through?

I was most annoyed that I couldn't forward catchall mail to my gmail just via my domain registrations, because Google had gotten so much spam via 123-reg that they just rejected everything from there. A*se.

[babysimon]

Mail me?

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Directly from my SMTP server on smtp.ciphergoth.org

[reddragdiva]

Send a test mail to dgerard@gmail.com and see what happens.

[reddragdiva]

well, that worked ...

[reddragdiva]

(and don't mention viagra)

[mistdog.livejournal.com]

I run spamassassin on my SMTP server, kept up to date by Ubuntu. If you'd like to email me (jon@serf.org) I can tell you what SA rules it triggers.

[babysimon]

We've tested it against SpamHaus and (non-Bayes) SpamAssassin here and doesn't seem to be either of those.

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Eh?

[reddragdiva]

Domains on 123-reg, MX set to their MX to catch-all forward to dgerard@gmail.com. Gmail decides they've had too much spam through 123-reg and won't even talk to it. I have to divert my mail via my ISP account.

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

I use 123-reg for my domains and have MX set up to go to Google directly. Is that an option for you?

[reddragdiva]

Ooh, could be good!

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Ah - forgot to mention. This is through Google Apps... Slightly different from the firstname.lastname@gmail.com

[reddragdiva]

Link to howto?

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Basically when you set up Google Apps for a domain so that Google actually does handle being a mail server for your domain it tells you specific MX records to put into DNS. This lets it know that you genuinely do own that domain and that it *should* accept mail for it.

I've given up on doing any kind of spam filtering myself and let Google do it for me.

I personally find the free version quite satisfactory - but of course they are trying to sell you more space for more users etc...
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

we have pretty fierce spam filters at work if you want to try me there...

[calum]

Ive got some spamassassin and other filters set up if you want to test me (calum@livejournal.com works)..

Can tell you why if it triggers

[lovingboth]

I don't bother with spamassassin, just greylisting. You can try both ian@ username.com and username at gmail.com - if one gets through but the other doesn't, that tells us something.