Comments on: ActionMailer: Gmail SMTP, Sendmail, and spam

By: Adam Retinsky

Adam Retinsky — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:18:23 +0000

Hi Alex,
Ironically even though I work for a company that sells an outbound spam filtering solution (i.e. something that could help your VPS provider fix its bad IP reputation), our own corporate IP got blacklisted as part of a massive anti-spammer sweep of the Amazon EC2 IP space. So we moved to a VPS and then that got blacklisted as well. I guess these days maybe you have to pay to solve this kind of problem.

Thanks for the helpful post,
Adam Retinsky
MailChannels Outbound

By: Dustin Anderson

Dustin Anderson — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:32:24 +0000

Hey Alex,

I’m using AuthSMTP for a project that needs send-to-a-friend functionality (we’re also hosting it on Engine Yard Solo / Amazon EC2 which has problems with blacklisted IP’s). Not totally sure if this is the greatest solution yet, but hopefully it solves the problem you’ve described.

Unfortunately, AuthSMTP isn’t free, it’s a paid service.

See you at work tomorrow

Dustin

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:18:32 +0000

Hey there Alex -

I am experiencing similar problems with gmail - mail sent from my Rails app go straight to junk - though my server is not listed on the SBL, PBL, or XBL. Are you still having problems getting mail through to gmail, or did it all get cleared up for you? I’m having a hard time pinpointing exactly what’s flagging it, and was wondering if you’d had any more luck.

Cheers,
Matthew