I sent spam?

I had an email reply to a proposal I sent out this morning. I noticed that he had received the message labeled as 'possible spam'. Now why is that?

Then I had a sales rep call wanting to talk about the emails he had sent. What emails I asked. Turns out they were in MY spam folder. He is using an AOL account. They were labeled spam by Spam Assassin run on our host's mail server. I am running Cloudmark on top of that, which hadn't tagged it. While looking for those emails I found one from an employee in my spam folder.

I'd try to be a little more cautious about thinking your emails are getting thru right now.

BTW, this blog's host, 8-95.com started making spam as an attachment and then puts the body copy in plain text so you can't accidentally ping their servers to let them know you read their email. This does make it harder for Cloudmark to separate, though.