Every year, I send a long “Happy New Year” email to my friends and family with updates about the past year of my life. The past three years, several friends told me that it went to their spam folder.
Is there any way I can prevent this from happening next year?
I did not receive any auto reply informing me that my message had been marked as spam.
I sent the message from an [at]gmail.com address.
Most of the recipients are people with whom I have exchanged multiple emails in the past.
I could understand if this problem were limited to people with whom I rarely or never email, but I have close friends and even a brother who are telling me that they found my email in their spam folder.
Two years ago, I sent an email with over 100 BCCed recipients. Last year, I tried to fix the problem by sending two back-to-back emails that each had fewer than 100 recipients, but it still ended up in a lot of spam folders. This year, I sent two emails on different days with fewer than 100 recipients each, and that didn’t solve anything.
Does the length of the email or number of links in the text make a difference in whether it gets marked as spam? Would it help if I divided my list into even smaller groups?
Is there any way I can prevent this from happening next year?
I did not receive any auto reply informing me that my message had been marked as spam.
I sent the message from an [at]gmail.com address.
Most of the recipients are people with whom I have exchanged multiple emails in the past.
I could understand if this problem were limited to people with whom I rarely or never email, but I have close friends and even a brother who are telling me that they found my email in their spam folder.
Two years ago, I sent an email with over 100 BCCed recipients. Last year, I tried to fix the problem by sending two back-to-back emails that each had fewer than 100 recipients, but it still ended up in a lot of spam folders. This year, I sent two emails on different days with fewer than 100 recipients each, and that didn’t solve anything.
Does the length of the email or number of links in the text make a difference in whether it gets marked as spam? Would it help if I divided my list into even smaller groups?
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