Frequently Asked Questions

We're the guys from MailPoet and AcyMailing.

We needed a cheap, simple and efficient way to quickly test the quality of our own newsletters.

We simply built on our own tool. Now we're sharing it for free via our web-interface and enable you to include our tests in your own app and whitelist our service by creating an account.

We're geeky email software engineers. We can let you imagine how such people look like.

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You can't. But you can do a lot to improve your chances, like getting a perfect score on mail-tester.

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All spam filters work differently. What may pass in mail-tester, might not in your own office inbox.

It also depends on user preferences. For example, I hit on "this is spam" button in my Yahoo. But you don't. Yahoo will adapt to each person.

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Your Goal is to Score Perfect 10/10, use our tools to help you get there!

We have 5 different drawings in total. Click to enlarge.

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Did you know that more emails are blocked than caught in a spam filter ? That means they disappear completely.

If that's your case, the server you're sending from is most probably blacklisted. It's time to change your sending method.

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It's a widely used spam filter. It's open source, free, pretty awesome and they have a website too.

We have a vanilla install. In other words, it's an out of the box default installation.
We reversed the score so a positive score is a good score and a negative one is bad.

Do note that there are plenty of other spam filters out there.

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Ask our awesome designer, it was her idea. We simply didn't want some old school analogy to snail mail.

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• We do not share, resell nor disclose your emails or addresses to anyone. God forbid.
• All results are visible to anyone who has the exact address.
• Search engine robots and evil spammers can't crawl your results.
• We use your data to create averages and anonymous stats.

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We have an iframe and a JSON API which are both available with our paid plans so you can integrate mail-tester results into your own software.

You will get 20 tests for free when you create your account so you can test our API.
Need more information? Get in touch with us!

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We'd like to see mail-tester in other languages. Please contact us to receive the latest version of your language file and help us improve it!

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You are free to use mail-tester.com provided that:

1. You do not interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the service.
2. You do not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure.

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