{"id":132187,"date":"2023-10-04T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/?post_type=blog&p=132187"},"modified":"2024-09-22T21:04:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T19:04:55","slug":"3-tools-to-check-whether-your-email-has-been-blocklisted","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/blog\/3-tools-to-check-whether-your-email-has-been-blocklisted","title":{"rendered":"3 tools to check whether your email has been blocklisted"},"content":{"rendered":"

What to do when your emails stop arriving<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

What if your email suddenly stops arriving?\u00a0You can still receive messages, but your outgoing email will simply disappear.\u00a0Not surprising if you think about a blacklist.\u00a0Why do you actually end up on an email blocklist?\u00a0How do you get rid of it again?\u00a0Are you actually on a blocklist?\u00a0Email never ‘just’ stops arriving.\u00a0In most cases, you will have been having delivery problems long before then.\u00a0These problems are not always caused by blocklists.<\/p>\n

What is an email blocklist?<\/h2>\n

Blocklists are lists of email domains and IP addresses which have been flagged as sending out “spammy” emails.<\/p>\n

You first want to be sure whether it is actually an email blocklist.\u00a0You can perform that analysis quite quickly if you have insight into your\u00a0email bounces<\/strong>.\u00a0Bounce notifications quite often tell you what type of bounce it is and what the reason for that bounce is.\u00a0Typically, that message gives you information in the form we display in our timelines:<\/p>\n

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A hard bounce event<\/strong> in Flowmailer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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You can also simply check whether the IP address you are emailing with has been blocklisted.\u00a0This can be done, for example, via\u00a0this tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Being on a blocklist is not good, but sometimes it has\u00a0less impact<\/strong>\u00a0than you think.\u00a0There are many blocklists.\u00a0Only a few are used so often that listing has immediate major consequences.\u00a0The Flowmailer team is happy to help you make that assessment.<\/p>\n

Not on a blocklist, but still having problems?\u00a0In addition to blocklists, the major recipients mainly use their own\u00a0reputation system<\/strong>.\u00a0With such a system, the chance of ending up in the inbox depends on your behaviour as a sender and how your recipients interact with your email.\u00a0Do you hardly cause bounces and is all your email read?\u00a0Or do people mark your messages as spam and leave them unread?\u00a0A party like Return Path gives you an insight into that reputation through Sender Score<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0Do you score below 90?\u00a0Then something is really going on.<\/p>\n

What now?<\/h3>\n

Are you on a blocklist, or do you have a low reputation score?\u00a0Then it’s time for action.\u00a0The cause always lies with the sender.\u00a0Have you perhaps accidentally sent a lot of spam because WordPress was not up to date?\u00a0Or was your email marketing campaign actually unacceptable?\u00a0Maybe you never processed bounces or complaints and just kept emailing the same addresses?<\/p>\n

First, you have to remove the cause, otherwise solutions are always short-lived. Start with the following steps:<\/p>\n