On 1/16/2024 4:49 PM, Cabel Sasser wrote:
HI Josh,
Thank you so much for your reply!
Most likely, SA specifically whitelisting legit domains in those poisonous TLDs
which are brought to our attention by, for instance, reports like yours. Less
likely but possible: seeing enough ham claiming to be from those TLDs in the
masscheck contributors' corpora that the scores for those rules are
automatically reduced.
A possible alternative that is under your control and will likely get faster positive
results than SA rules changes: register the domain playdatesupport.com for your support
department's use. They can still *receive* email at supp...@play.date, but for outbound
email that wouldn't be the From: domain and thus wouldn't suffer the TLD reputational
hit. (If you do that, avoid setting "ReplyTo: supp...@play.date", as that would
also take a reputation hit.)
Great thoughts, and I’ll discuss them with the crew.
This - getting a .com domain to send mail - is really the only
choice you have.
If Spamassassin were to whitelist your domain *today*, it will be
some period of time until all the people running SA have the updated
rules. I don't know how long, but I'm guessing many months. For
some, years.
I also can't imagine that SA is the only software filter preventing
you from successfully using your .date domain for mail, so fixing SA
won't do anything for those others.
The alternative is playing whack-a-mole asking individual sites to
whitelist you until the end of time.
-- Noel Jones
