Pops wants me to use my Gmail account for job postings… but I’ve already worked so hard on setting up my Email with Purelymail and a custom domain. I’ve never had an issue of my Email getting flagged as spam before, but in this instance I sent him a zip file with no message body and it was sent straight to spam.
My question is: would you bother using Gmail just to ensure your Email replies to interested HR people don’t get sent to the spam bucket? In my opinion, the use of a custom email address indicates flair to potential hiring teams - because it shows that you are capable of setting that stuff up. BTW my TLD is Senegal (.sn) to phonetically match my last name (it’s a really cool email) but the actual name header displays as my full name just like any other email address would.
First off, are your DMARC, DKIM, and SPF all setup right?
Next, see of you can test any delays, like if you have another account, have someone email both and see if there’s any difference.
Yep, those are set up correctly. PM has a wizard to check if they are.
OK, then it’s definitely your blank email from a .sn TLD with an empty message body. That’s like 3 huge red flags. The .sn TLD shouldn’t be a deal breaker, but it means you will always be scrutinized and need to make any emails with links or attachments look like they’re not spam unless the sender and you have some established back and forth already.
If it were me, I would start up as many free temp addresses as I can and send test emails to them that don’t look sketchy AF (text in the body only, then text with a link, then text with a PDF attachment) and see if you get the same results. If you have gmail addresses you can can access to use as well, be sure you use that. The problem with Gmail (in my experience at least) is that once an address pings for spam, it’s spam until someone else manually says “oh, no, not spam.” Possibly person by person. I’ve had to rescue more emails from spam than received spam to my inbox I had to dump to the spam folder. I have no idea, but other filters might work the same way.
Thank you, this is really good advice.
Definitely make sure all of those are set up properly. I would also look up the IP address of your mail server on services like this. It’s possible your ISP/provider has a bad email reputation, and if that’s the case then there’s not a whole lot you can do short of switching providers or using a third party SMTP relay that has a good reputation, like smtp2go.com.