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Test the Spammyness of your Emails

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Re: Test the Spammyness of your Emails

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Post by mike-cardwell »

chmike wrote: post #5

I don't get it. What am I suppose to do ?

View the front page. It will show you an email address which looks something like "web-ONhx3B@mail-tester.com" which is unique to you. Send an email to that address then click the "Check your score" button. It will rate the email which it received from you and point out any configuration problems.

Re: Test the Spammyness of your Emails

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Post by mabo »

leesalminen wrote: post #4

Are there plans for an API (paid or otherwise)? My SaaS has a built in marketing tool that allows for bulk email sending. I constantly run into an issue where customers have an image from a designer, and want to embed that image as the entire content of the email. Of course, that's flagged as spam. I would love to show users a spam score before they blast away.

Their FAQ page has a section on this: https://www.mail-tester.com/faq#api

Re: Test the Spammyness of your Emails

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Post by skrebbel »

jjuhl wrote: post #12

Useful tool, sure. But really, if you have to test, then yes, your mail is probably spam that noone cares for.

You clearly never made an app that sends opt-in emails (think activity notifications, reminders, whatever). Unless you know the exact right incantations, 3% of these mails will end up in Gmail's spam folder. This directly results in 3% unhappy users. They'll never consider blaming Gmail instead of you.

Re: Test the Spammyness of your Emails

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Post by jjuhl »

skrebbel wrote: post #15
jjuhl wrote: post #12

Useful tool, sure. But really, if you have to test, then yes, your mail is probably spam that noone cares for.

You clearly never made an app that sends opt-in emails (think activity notifications, reminders, whatever). Unless you know the exact right incantations, 3% of these mails will end up in Gmail's spam folder. This directly results in 3% unhappy users. They'll never consider blaming Gmail instead of you.

Well, personally, I'd consider any notifications, reminders, etc to be SPAM unless I had explicitly set up a rule to allow those emails from a specific source. By default such mails are just unwanted junk (IMHO) and should be treated as such by default (opt-in/opt-out is pointless since it is almost impossible to avoid opting in to crap these days).

Re: Test the Spammyness of your Emails

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

skrebbel wrote: post #15
jjuhl wrote: post #12

Useful tool, sure. But really, if you have to test, then yes, your mail is probably spam that noone cares for.

You clearly never made an app that sends opt-in emails (think activity notifications, reminders, whatever). Unless you know the exact right incantations, 3% of these mails will end up in Gmail's spam folder. This directly results in 3% unhappy users. They'll never consider blaming Gmail instead of you.

A reach. Not clear you can tell how many ended up in spam folder vs how many unhappy users. Could be 30% got called spam, and 27 of those 30 were perfectly happy that happened. Those 3 were just the ones that complained?

Re: Test the Spammyness of your Emails

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Post by _delirium »

skrebbel wrote: post #15
jjuhl wrote: post #12

Useful tool, sure. But really, if you have to test, then yes, your mail is probably spam that noone cares for.

You clearly never made an app that sends opt-in emails (think activity notifications, reminders, whatever). Unless you know the exact right incantations, 3% of these mails will end up in Gmail's spam folder. This directly results in 3% unhappy users. They'll never consider blaming Gmail instead of you.

Part of the problem with those is that a lot of companies (including big ones) have started sending notification and "what's happening" updates them without an opt-in, which causes users to think they're spammy and mark them as such. LinkedIn and Twitter are particularly big offenders here, but there are a lot of others. Twitter even likes to periodically invent new kinds of email notifications and newsletters, and opt you in to them by default.

Gmail might be making this a little better by introducing a middle ground, moving those kinds of emails out of the Inbox into either the "Social" or "Promotions" boxes, where they're less likely to be marked as spam (although probably also less likely to be seen).

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