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OP might have had an IP previously used by spammers or in a spam block. (See edit).
Important to check the IP before using it if it's been given to you by, say, the VPS Provider or the upstream. To see what, if any, reputation it has.
Here are two tools to use:
http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx
And there are a bunch of similar tools.
Perhaps the problem here is that there is no verified identity for email servers?
What's that even mean?
This guys story is a sad one but I'm sure we're missing some important information here. New mail servers get set up all the time, it's not impossible for such servers to be accepted by the big players. If none of these major services ever learned that his server was OK, it's likely that users weren't unmarking the mail he sent as spam. And that leads to the question of why not.
For awhile I wondered why so many SaaS apps bothered to pay external (not cheap!) mail services when it's so easy to set up an email server.
This is why. My "easy to set up an email server" info was years out of date.
The problem is not so much the attitude of the big guys. It is that smtp is fundamentally broken. we need a better mail protocol that ensures: 1. Traffic always encrypted and content always signed 2. Guarantee that the sender is who it claims he is 3. Decorrelating the email from the domain, a lot of users are prisoners of their current provider just because the address they gave everyone ends with the provider's dom…
"3 and 4 would require a sort of token system" Not to get all handwavey, but I think this is why some people are super excited about bitcoin becoming 'part of the internet'. There are definitely some areas where we need a concept of identity & trust, and bitcoin seems like one of the first truly distributed ways of doing it.
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What's that even mean?
something like EV certificates for smtp servers?
Every email would be digitally signed and encrypted. Certificate with keys would connected to email address (and bitcoin wallet).
Spam would die.
Go build it please.
Create an email network where is would cost a penny to send email. It would be payed into bitcoin wallet of folks maintaining infrastructure. Every email would be digitally signed and encrypted. Certificate with keys would connected to email address (and bitcoin wallet). Spam would die. Go build it please.
I checked the spam folder. Gmail had plopped the apple email into the spam folder. Gmail's reason was that the email was in a foreign language, Italian. Didn't matter that the previous 2 weeks all my google.com searches were done from Italy.