The reason your campaigns might be going to spam is because your emails appear to be coming from Mail. Chimp’s mail servers rather than your own. To ensure that your recipients’ servers get the message that you are a real person, you’ll have to authenticate your domain.
Why are my Mailchimp email campaigns being sent to spam?
Mailchimp email campaigns are sent through their servers, so if your IP address has been subject to spam in the past, this could seriously affect deliverability for your emails. One way to improve the deliverability of your emails is addressing them with the recipient’s name and not their email address.
If your email has the Mail. Chimp headers, even if you yourself didn’t use the program to send SPAM, someone else has probably used it to send SPAM, and the Bayesian filters “learned” that those headers make it probably SPAM, and they get marked SPAM.
This of course begs the question “How do I Keep my Mailchimp campaigns from going to spam?”
Once you’ve authenticated your domain, your subscribers’ mail servers should read your emails as coming from your domain rather than Mail. Chimp’s, which tells them that you are a legit person. And that’s how you keep your Mail. Chimp campaigns from going to spam .
Why are my emails being flagged as spam?
There are a handful of reasons why your email campaign may be getting flagged as spam by your subscribers inbox. Run a test on your emails and you’ll see how things such as broken links, image alt attributes, text-to-image ratio and missing list-unsubscriber headers can affect the delivery success of your email campaigns.
If a lot of your recipients click the Report Spam button in their email client (e. g, Gmail, Yahoo), those services can start to block your campaigns and deliver straight to the spam folder. If a recipient tells you he or she clicked Report Spam by accident, many email services include a Not Spam option.
If a subscribed contact marks your campaign as spam, Outlook’s filters will likely send your next campaign to their junk folder. The best way to avoid this is to maintain a clean audience of engaged subscribers who look forward to receiving your email campaigns in their inboxes.
Aggressive spam filters may label a legitimate campaign as spam or junk, even when you follow email marketing best practices. If this happens to you, ask your subscribers to import a list of Mailchimp’s sending domains to their Safe Senders list in Outlook.
What is Mailchimp and is it safe?
, mail Chimp is a tool which is predominantly used to send SPAM. I understand that it’s marketed as a legitimate tool to send mass emails, to do advertising, to people who already want to see the email you are sending. Most people don’t use it that way; most people use it to send SPAM.
Mailchimp’s staff receives copies of any complaints that come in, so we can disable the sender’s account and investigate immediately. Firewalls rely on reputation scores to block emails before they even get to the content-based spam filters, and they all calculate sending reputation differently.
What happens when I verify my domain with MailChimp?
When you “verify” your domain with Mailchimp, all you’re doing is giving them permission to spoof your domain. This means that subscribers on the receiving end of your email will see your name and email as the sender, but there will be a via beside it (e. g. via gmail. mcsv. net or mailchimpapp. net).