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Email Deliverability

How to Fix Emails Going to Spam

Mail landing in spam is almost always fixable. Work through this checklist in order — the first two items resolve the majority of cases.

Step-by-step

  1. Authenticate your domain. Verify SPF and DKIM show Valid in Email Deliverability — see the setup guide. This is the single biggest factor.
  2. Send a test through a checker. Email a fresh Gmail/Outlook.com account; in Gmail use Show original to confirm SPF: PASS, DKIM: PASS.
  3. Fix the From identity. Always send from you@yourdomain.com (never a free-mail From with your server), with a real display name and a working reply address.
  4. Review content. Avoid all-caps subjects, excessive exclamation marks, link shorteners, and image-only messages. Include a plain-text part (clients do this automatically).
  5. Warm up new domains. A brand-new domain has no reputation — start with normal one-to-one correspondence; reputation builds within weeks.
  6. Never bulk-send from shared hosting. Newsletters/bulk mail are prohibited on EconomicalHost shared plans and will wreck deliverability for your whole domain.
  7. Ask recipients once to mark a message "Not spam" and add you to contacts — this trains their provider quickly.
  8. Still stuck? Use Track Delivery to read the exact rejection text, and contact EconomicalHost support with it.

💡 Good to know

  • Reputation is per-domain AND per-content: one spammy campaign can undo months of good sending.
  • Attachments like .zip or .exe trigger filters — share download links from your website instead.
  • Check if your domain is on a public blocklist by searching "blacklist check" tools; delisting usually requires fixing the cause first.