{"id":8981,"date":"2021-09-06T22:36:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T05:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8981"},"modified":"2021-11-13T11:20:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T19:20:02","slug":"no-more-outgoing-email-spam-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/06\/no-more-outgoing-email-spam-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Outgoing Email Spam Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I think I finally fixed it.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2017, I&#8217;ve been having outgoing email spam problems. At one point, I&#8217;m sorry to say, malicious actors were sending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/22\/sorry-about-the-spam\/\">50,000 emails per day<\/a> from @lee.org. I&#8217;ve been wrestling with the tools that stop stuff like that from happening. How did I finally fix it? Until last month, my email was hosted at Dreamhost.com and it forwarded to my free Gmail account. Now, it goes straight to a ($6\/month) Google Workspace account.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only moved email over, not all the other google services but so far the move is successful.<\/p>\n<p>Pluses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I can send email and expect people to get it!<\/li>\n<li>My spam folder is now seeing 10 spams\/day instead of 100. I guess the paid account is smarter. Not having to wade through that crap monthly for the inevitable non-spam is well worth $6\/month!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Minuses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m now 1\/2 in Gmail and 1\/2 in Google Workspace and fixing that will take some more effort<\/li>\n<li>Right now I&#8217;m keeping my contacts in Gmail (for my phone and Google Voice) and a not-often-updated copy in Google Workspace (for my email) :-(<\/li>\n<li>Switching Calendar will be a bother since I&#8217;ve got like 20 shared calendars and fiddly defaults to set up.<\/li>\n<li>Switching to Google Workspace Google Voice will be $10\/month which I&#8217;m hesitant to do since it&#8217;s free right now<\/li>\n<li>Migrating my 30k emails took 3 days and a learning curve but it&#8217;s done!<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll have to migrate my beloved Boomerang for Gmail manually<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/a\/answer\/174124?hl=en\">Setting up DKIM for my email<\/a> wasn&#8217;t hard per se but took some thinking and clicking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some tools to test the spamminess of your domain:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mail-tester.com\/\">Mail-Tester.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mxtoolbox.com\/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist%3alee.org&amp;run=toolpage\">MXToolbox.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/toolbox.googleapps.com\/apps\/checkmx\/check?domain=lee.org&amp;dkim_selector=\">toolbox.googleapps.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agari.com\/email-security-blog\/pros-cons-dmarc-reject-vs-quarantine\/\">DMARC Quarantine vs. DMARC Reject: Which Should You Implement?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/domain-checker.valimail.com\/dmarc\">Valimail.com <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/domain-checker.valimail.com\/dmarc\">DMARC tools<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dmarcian.com\/dmarc-tools\/\">Dmarcian.com DMARC tools<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I think I finally fixed it. Since 2017, I&#8217;ve been having outgoing email spam problems. At one point, I&#8217;m sorry to say, malicious actors were sending 50,000 emails per day from @lee.org. I&#8217;ve been wrestling with the tools that stop stuff like that from happening. How did I finally fix it? Until last month, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8981"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9183,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions\/9183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}