Does Envelope-From affect email deliverability
Hey awesome community.
If the domain from the envelope-from has a bad reputation do you think it affects the deliverability of a From domain that has a high reputation? - they are different as I'm using a different domain for the SMTP and a different one to send the actual emails.
I'm talking specifically about Gmail here as that is the only one that shares your domain reputation.
Correct me if I'm wrong but there is a way to override the envelope-from domain by applying a white-labeling solution right, on domain level?
I hope this makes sense.
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If the domain from the envelope-from has a bad reputation do you think it affects the deliverability of a From domain that has a high reputation? - they are different as I'm using a different domain for the SMTP and a different one to send the actual emails.
That depends on the policy of the recipient server.
Correct me if I'm wrong but there is a way to override the envelope-from domain by applying a white-labeling solution right, on domain level?
You can try but it's still up to the recipient… For example, MailGun offers a white-labeling service (that's pretty spendy IMHO) but there's NOTHING (I repeat NOTHING!) that MailGun can do that can prevent me from instituting a policy that marks any mail from, mail sent by or mail relayed through a MailGun server as spam…and rejecting/blocking it accordingly.
Comcast is famous for this…
On my email server, it would take me about 2 minutes to institute a brute-force block and about 10 minutes for a finer-grained, more-nuanced one.
With respect to Gmail/Outlook/YahooMail/etc, you're at the mercy of Google/Microsoft/Verizon/etc. and their internal policies. For example, if Google has some ethical/commercial/competitive objection to the content of your emails, they can just block them with no explanation other than "our platform, our rules" and be perfectly legal/justified in that action. Even if it's not legal/justified, you'll be out of business before your legal filing will get past the inbox of the Federal District Court clerk.
-- sw