[Mailman-Users] mailing list filtered as spam

[Dragon]

jeff zemla sent the message below at 08:05 6/26/2008:
>Hi all,
>I tried searching the archives for a solution to my problem but couldn't
>find anything.  My apologies if this has been answered 100 times before.
>
>I bought a new domain through hostgator.com and they have Mailman installed
>so I can set up a mailing list.  I've used mailman before through my
>University and never had a problem with requests being filtered as spam.
>
>Basically, when I try to add an e-mail account to the mailing list, it goes
>into my Gmail spam box.  I don't know why this would happen, as my domain
>has never been used for anything before, so no one could have possibly
>reported it as spam.  The header is as follows:
>
>from: artists-request at domain.com
>to: invited at address.com
>date: Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:16 PM
>subject: Welcome to the "Artists" mailing list
>mailing list: <artists_domain.com.>
>mailed-by: domain.com
>
>Where domain.com is my domain, artists is the name of the list, and
>invited at address.com is the person I add to the list.
>
>I have tried altering the content of the message, but nothing seems to work,
>which leads me to believe it is being flagged as spam based on where it
>originates from.  But seeing as the website has no content on it (just a
>line of text that says "Things will be here shortly") i dont know why gmail
>would have a preconceived notion that it's a spamming site.
>
>Any ideas?
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It is quite possible that the ISP you are using has hosted domains 
that were a problem and gmail is filtering on the fact that your 
domain is hosted in their IP address block.

It is also quite possible that they are being quite draconian about 
the content of the message.

Either way, the only way you will know for certain what is happening 
is if you contact their technical support (if you can actually get an 
answer out of them, they may well ignore your request too).


Dragon

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