Emails not getting delivered?

[davieh3350]

How often do emails fail to arrive?
Im using yahoo and I've sent a few messages in the last few months that go unanswered. Some were to bigger companies that were possibly not interested in the jobs I had for them, but friends I've mailed have never responded, my mother got one from me and replied and it never came. Just wondering if it's common... Or if it's that no one wants to be my friend

 

[Shutesy]

Usually if an email fails to get 'delivered' you get a reply email pretty soon after you send it stating that the email was unable to be delivered. Emails being delivered into spam folders perhaps by accident?

 

[davieh3350]

Never got a notification saying it wasn't delivered.

They aren't my friends after all then

 

[Shutesy]

Never got a notification saying it wasn't delivered.

They aren't my friends after all then

Could be innocently going into a spam folder and never being checked, perhaps people have made new email addresses and never look at there old ones, some folks are terrible at checking there emails full stop and then there's those who have 5432 unread emails in there inbox which makes finding an actual email far more difficult!

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

So many larger organisations especially and/or email system will filter and tag (innocent) emails originating from these mail providers, like yahoo and gmail as “spam” either trapping/holding the emails in quarantine or just sending them to ‘junk’ folders.

It’s not so much you, but the fact you’ve got a yahoo address that could be the problem.

Guilt by association.

 

[J B]

I have my own domain name through 1&1
I often get issues with Hotmail/Outlook/Live where the messages go to spam, and sometimes don't arrive at all without a bounceback.

 

[Spear]

then there's those who have 5432 unread emails in there inbox which makes finding an actual email far more difficult!

Ummm ....

That’s with spam filters and regularly clearing messages.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

I have my own domain name through 1&1
I often get issues with Hotmail/Outlook/Live where the messages go to spam, and sometimes don't arrive at all without a bounceback.

If it’s about receipt of emails from folks with Hotmail/Outlook/Live email addresses, then as said above it’s probably your email hosting provider filtering them before they even go to your account.

You should speak to them about it - as I’m assuming you have a lot of holiday cottage guests that use these as their private emails to book etc with. They may be able to change their spam filtering settings.

The alternative if this is becoming really problematic is to move your email hosting to another email provider (quite easy to do) that has better or more configurable email spam filtering policies.

If it’s about deliverability of your emails, then whomever manages or setup your email hosting should have setup the DKIM and SPF records. These are settings that are used to prove your emails are kosher and less likely to get blocked by receivers spam filers.

See link for a brief explanation
https://blog.woodpecker.co/cold-email/spf-dkim/

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Ummm ....

That’s with spam filters and regularly clearing messages.

Who are you Donald Trump?

 

[Spear]

Who are you Donald Trump?

Damn my secrets out [emoji23][emoji23]

 

[Shutesy]

Ummm ....

That’s with spam filters and regularly clearing messages.

Wow good effort

 

[J B]

If it’s about deliverability of your emails, then whomever manages or setup your email hosting should have setup the DKIM and SPF records. These are settings that are used to prove your emails are kosher and less likely to get blocked by receivers spam filters

Yes, it's the deliverability from my 1&1 address - I've never even looked at the settings (will review your link when time)
I use Thunderbird from a number of different locations, but on the same laptop and also K9 Mail on my Android phone.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Yes, it's the deliverability from my 1&1 address - I've never even looked at the settings (will review your link when time)
I use Thunderbird from a number of different locations, but on the same laptop and also K9 Mail on my Android phone.

Yes just to clarify, the SPF and DKIM records need to be set by your email hosting provider as they are DNS records, not something you can change on either your email server or your email clients.

 

[krikey]

Look at ditching your ISP as your go-to email sender and use something like postmarkapp.com instead. They have a very high deliverability rate, plus you get some great reporting tools on whether the email was delivered and opened too. There are a few others too that do something similar such as https://www.mailgun.com/pricing and https://sendgrid.com/pricing/

 

[Dry Rot]

I dropped Plusnet and signed up with EE who promised Fibre Broadband (EE quote, "BT says they can provide fibre broadband to your area") and it has been chaos here ever since. Broadband drops in and out and can be out for a whole day. I change to the Post Office on the 8th. I don't expect much improvement but it is half the price. EE kindly say they won't be charging me and have offered £30 in compensation for two weeks of frustration and annoyance.

To test emails, I occasionally send myself an email just to see if it will get through. It's worth checking. I arranged to collect a French girl from my local town (2 miles) the other day. She has very little English but promised to email me or phone throughout the day to keep me informed of her progress travelling from the south of France. All the emails arrived here together at 8.30pm, nothing at all before that, so not a lot of use. Fortunately, I checked the agreed pick up point (in the Scottish Highlands) on the off chance and found she had "only" been waiting an hour! She was not able to contact me on my land line either, only two miles away, yet she was able to speak with her family in France on their phones. Work that one out!

 

[Still Farming]

Strange things going on with emails.
This was one responce received to it:-

It appears that the hack took place on the BT server and didn't get into my pc. The BT server has a mirror of my e-mails and contacts and that is how it was done apparently. I have changed my password and made it more complicated. I am told that the only way of improving security is to pay for a service for e-mails from other providers.

The emails think "spoof" called comes off genuine looking address you know but is not .
Not certain how they can get into your system by you replying to them as no passwords given or implied.

How do you check your systems?
We got security on laptop and mobile security on phone?
Maybe some internet experts can explain.
@nelson.h etc

Also seen this about hackers .
Not never used mentioned sites.

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You may have heard of a few of the high profile data leaks in the past few years, such as:

• LinkedIn
• Adobe
• Dropbox
• Tumblr
• SnapChat
• Neopets
• Minecraft

Believe it or not, there have been over 200 major websites that have had their data leaked over the past few years, enabling your passwords to be used by hackers.

In 2013, Microsoft security research Troy Hunt built the site Have I Been Pwned? that allows you to check if your password has ever been leaked. (Fun fact: "Pwned," derived from owned, is video game slang for when someone is utterly defeated!)

How can you stay safe in a world of data leaks?

• Use a different password on each website.
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Proudly Private,

Dax the Duck,
Mascot - DuckDuckGo

 

[davieh3350]

I dropped Plusnet and signed up with EE who promised Fibre Broadband (EE quote, "BT says they can provide fibre broadband to your area") and it has been chaos here ever since. Broadband drops in and out and can be out for a whole day. I change to the Post Office on the 8th. I don't expect much improvement but it is half the price. EE kindly say they won't be charging me and have offered £30 in compensation for two weeks of frustration and annoyance.

To test emails, I occasionally send myself an email just to see if it will get through. It's worth checking. I arranged to collect a French girl from my local town (2 miles) the other day. She has very little English but promised to email me or phone throughout the day to keep me informed of her progress travelling from the south of France. All the emails arrived here together at 8.30pm, nothing at all before that, so not a lot of use. Fortunately, I checked the agreed pick up point (in the Scottish Highlands) on the off chance and found she had "only" been waiting an hour! She was not able to contact me on my land line either, only two miles away, yet she was able to speak with her family in France on their phones. Work that one out!

You doing a bit of Workaway hosting by any chance?