{"id":51229,"date":"2015-07-06T21:09:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T21:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=51229"},"modified":"2015-07-06T21:09:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T21:09:11","slug":"has-your-email-been-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/has-your-email-been-blocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Your Email Been Blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p><i><font SIZE=\"2\">If your email fails to arrive &#8211; the reason may not be obvious.&#8211;PC Pitstop<\/i><\/font>.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<h4>Has Your Email Been Blocked<\/h4>\n<p>By Leo Notenboom<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How can I tell if my email address has been blocked? The email address I send to is good and working, the only problem is, it\u2019s not working for me; have I been blocked? Is there any way of knowing if my emails ever get opened or deleted? And if I\u2019m blocked, is it my email address that\u2019s blocked or my IP address?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ultra-short answer is: you cannot tell. There\u2019s simply no way to know for sure.<br \/>\nLet\u2019s explore why I say that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One reason, or many<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The root problem is that there are so many reasons your mail may not get through these days, it\u2019s practically impossible to determine which reason is contributing to your situation.<br \/>\nOn top of that, it could be a combination of reasons.<br \/>\nYou could, indeed, be blocked<\/p>\n<p>Stop!  It\u2019s certainly possible that your recipient has blocked you. All that means is that email from your email address is automatically discarded at that recipient\u2019s end.<br \/>\nYou will not get a notification; there\u2019s simply no way to tell that this has happened. All you can do is ask the recipient to make sure that they haven\u2019t blocked you. (I assume you\u2019ve been in communication some other way, since you know that your email has not been received.)<br \/>\nIt\u2019s possible that your email address has been blocked (or black-listed) by the recipient\u2019s email service, or by a spam filter along the way. Once again, there\u2019s really no way to know whether this has happened. You won\u2019t get a notification \u2013 your email will simply be discarded.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/askleo.com\/how_can_i_tell_if_my_email_has_been_blocked\/\" target=\"_blank\">Article Continued Here<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your email fails to arrive &#8211; the reason may not be obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[4817,4882],"class_list":["post-51229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leo-notenboom","tag-email-blocked","tag-spam"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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