> and there is a lot of technical minutia to not get thrown in the spam folder for major providers. In fact, many major providers simply assume mail sent from an unfamiliar domain and/or IP is spam by default, and you will have to contact them to ask for permission to send to them.
These myths are popular, in my experience they are not true.
> These myths are popular, in my experience they are not true.
I am speaking from personal experience. I've run my own mail server for about 15 years.
A few months I had to publicly complain on twitter about Microsoft blocking my email in order to get them to stop putting my email in the spam folder (after having to move to a new IP). Their support people before I publicly complained just kept responding with a form letter with advice for commercial senders sending transactional, newsletter and marketing content.
These myths are popular, in my experience they are not true.