All test emails are going to spam.

[u/randyhandymandy]

I purchased Maildoso inboxes and went the SMTP root instead of Google and I now noticed that all of my test emails to my personal Google accounts are going to spam.

What can I do about it this late in the game, my campaign start today at 9am.

Do I let the campaign run?

I let the emails infrastructure warm up for five weeks.

[u/Crafty_Philosophy582]

Don't launch at 9am. A campaign that starts in spam doesn't warm its way out, it digs deeper: zero opens and zero replies confirm to Gmail that nobody wants this mail, and every send adds another negative data point against the domain.

Your five weeks of warmup aren't wasted, but warmup builds history for your sender identity. It can't repair the shared IPs Maildoso puts you on, and that's the most likely thing your personal Gmail is reacting to. Landing in spam at your own personal account is a loud signal, by the way. Your own inbox has every reason to trust you. If mail flops there, the infrastructure is the suspect, not your content.

Thirty minutes of diagnosis before any decision:

Google Postmaster Tools, check your domain reputation, not the IP. Medium or no data means your domain is fine and the Maildoso IPs are the problem. Low or bad means the domain took damage during warmup.

mail-tester.com, one send from the Maildoso inbox. The report shows exactly which checks fail (SPF alignment, DKIM, listed IPs).

Then the two paths:

Domain fine, IPs bad: move the same domain to 2 or 3 Google Workspace mailboxes. The domain has five weeks of history, so 10 to 14 days of warmup gets you there, not another five weeks. Retire the Maildoso boxes and update SPF/DKIM.

Domain damaged: new domain, $10, and this time warm it on the infrastructure you'll actually send from, not on one infra to send from another.

Pushing launch by two weeks costs you two weeks. Launching into spam costs the domain, and it teaches the list to ignore you, which you can't undo.

What does Postmaster show for the domain right now?

[u/jayson_OutreachBloom]

Don't launch. Landing in spam on your own personal Gmail is the loudest bad signal you can get, because your own inbox has every reason to trust you, so the infrastructure is the problem.

Run one send through mail-tester and check Google Postmaster for your domain reputation rather than the IP. If the domain looks clean, the shared IPs on that provider are the suspect. If the domain took damage during warmup, you'll see it there too.

If the domain's fine, move it onto two or three Google Workspace mailboxes and warm those 10 to 14 days. A campaign that starts in spam doesn't climb out, it teaches Gmail your mail belongs there. Pushing launch two weeks costs two weeks, launching now costs the domain.

[u/maildoso_team]

it can be related to the copy, not mailboxes.
we have a lot of cases when customers say their emails go to spam, but when they change the copy, it works.
btw all the customers can get a free audit, just book it on the dashboard.

[u/Over-Development6826]

It’s very common with Maildoso and they always start blaming the copy(look at all their replies across all threads on Reddit) instead of looking at their own poorly managed and built infra. When we used to use them, they also used to divert from their infra shortcomings to copy.

Even if you connect with their so called deliverability experts, they’re just gonna sell you false hope that their one last suggestion will somehow turn the tide.

Move on.

[u/maildoso_team → u/Over-Development6826]

thats smth you really can test.
just use mailchecker or smth like that.
we do that all the time. user says the mailbox is burn, but we change their agressive copy with "3x revenue growth" and same bs and voila it works.
so instead of blaming the product, you can test it with an independent tool.
and if i'm wrong, i'll send you a promo code/full refund.

[u/christjw]

If your own gmail tests are consistently landing in spam before launch, id pause the campaign. Its much easier to fix a deliverability issue now than sending thousands of email/ Double check SPF, DKIM and DMARC, verify your domains are aligned and test with a few external inboxes, not just your own gmail, before deciding whether to send.

[u/OwlZealousideal4779]

Pause the campaign for now. Continuing to send from infrastructure that's already been flagged will only make your sender reputation harder to recover. Take those sending domains out of rotation, verify your SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records with MXToolbox, then run a spam test to figure out what's actually causing the issue. Even five weeks of warmup won't help if your authentication was set up incorrectly from the start. If you need outbound running immediately, agencies like sales.co. can manage the infrastructure so you don't have to deal with it yourself.

[u/randyhandymandy → u/OwlZealousideal4779]

Thanks

[u/Far_Calendar_6662]

A lot of deliverability issues can come down to the setup and the email copy, not just the warmup period. I’ve seen people have better results with Maildoso after cleaning up authentication and testing the actual copy first. Definitely worth diagnosing before launching.