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

[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