u/The_Successor97

Hey Guys, need suggestions and most probably a guidance

Hey everyone,

I’d really appreciate some guidance regarding a deliverability situation I’m currently helping a client through inside GHL.

Here’s the full situation:

My client recently migrated from Kartra to GoHighLevel for email sending.

Previously, emails were being sent from:
name@domain.com

Now GHL has her configured to send from a subdomain (LeadConnecter):
name@lc.domian.com

Since the migration, inbox placement has dropped significantly and most emails are now landing in Promotions or Spam, with recent open rates dropping as low as 5%.

Current setup/details:

• SPF = passing
• DKIM = passing
• DMARC record now exists but currently set to p=none
• Domain is NOT blacklisted according to MXToolbox
• List size is relatively small (around 1200–1300 contacts)
• Sending volume is low/moderate
• We’ve started switching to short plain-text conversational emails
• We are warming gradually in smaller batches
• No aggressive promotions currently
• Root domain had historical deliverability inconsistencies before migration as well

A few things I’m trying to understand from experienced GHL users:

1. Is switching from the root domain to a new subdomain inside GHL enough to effectively reset sender reputation in Gmail’s eyes?
2. Would you recommend continuing with the subdomain long-term, or would you instead recommend warming the root domain properly and sending directly from there?
3. How much of an impact does GHL’s shared sending infrastructure typically have on inbox placement?
4. Would connecting a dedicated SMTP provider like Mailgun or SendGrid significantly improve deliverability in this scenario?
5. At what stage would you recommend moving DMARC from p=none to quarantine/reject?
6. Would you temporarily disable click tracking/open tracking during the warm-up/reputation rebuilding phase?
7. Roughly how long would you expect proper inbox trust rebuilding to take in a situation like this assuming:

• gradual warm-up
• engaged segments only
• reply-driven sends
• low complaint rates
• clean authentication

The goal right now is not scaling volume aggressively.

The goal is:

• recovering inbox placement
• rebuilding sender reputation
• and getting stable primary inbox delivery again before resuming regular promotional/workshop emails.

Would really appreciate any guidance from people who’ve dealt with similar GHL migration/reputation issues before.

Thank you!

I am going through a pretty rough situation right now.

There's a woman I connected with on IG

I had no intentions of, you know, like sleeping with her or even dating her.

I just sent her a request randomly.

In fact, she herself revealed she's a married woman instantly, so of course, whatever notions there could have been, vanished from my mind instantly.

We used to talk about regular day events...

About her life...

About my life...

About tons of things including our hobbies, passions, careers...

Later on she opened up to me about her relationship with her husband...

It was rough...

Her husband serves as a high ranking officer in the military...

Good house, good cars, 2 kids, 

And yet in 10 years of her marriage...

Not once she felt "held" by him...

Not once he apprecited her for how she looked.

Not to mention tons of abuse from husband's family.

She left her home, and country, for the guy...

And it was NOT a love marriage. 

It was completely arranged by families.

And today, after having 2 kids with the guy, she and him no longer emotionally connect with one another.

Marraige is just a kind of a vehicle she's on for her kids...

Anyhow...13 weeks fast forward since connecting with her, things have not been the same as they were in the beginning.

She found comfort in me...

She feels seen, heard and even to some extent desired.

We have even met one time for a long walk.

We have even been involved in sexting for some time now...

She makes me feel seen, and wanted.

Always texts first, 

Always asks about my day 10 times a day.

Always willing to come to my place and cook things for me (though I turn down on her offer)

Always wanting to go out to cafes with me (and even wanting to pay for the meal by herself, again almost always turned down her offer)

She wants the whole of me.

And we both know, we are in something that has no future,

We both know this will go nowhere.

We both know this will have to end once her husband comes back from a 4 month training program

She is an insanely responsible adult when it comes to kids, and house chores.

She loves her children more than anything in the world.

She is the kind of mother people in the late 1900s or even 1800s had...

Responsible, Nurturing, and a woman who sacrifices their lives for their kids.

She is 4 years older than me.

And she is now wanting to sleep with me...

She wants to have sex with me.

But my deep conscience is not wanting this but a part of my soul is wanting it.

Reason why I don't want this at all is because...

-> I don't like the idea of sleeping with a married woman.

-> Religious consequences.

-> Possible social consequences

-> Deep fear of corrupting my soul since I have never had slept with anyone in my life because I'm not married and iniating in coitus out of wedlock is something severly punishable in my religion.

(Of course no one would know but I won't be able to escape my conscience)

Reason Why I want this...

-> I have never felt this wanted in my life.

-> I want to experience how sex feels like

-> I want to do all those things to her that I have seen and read about in books, movies etc.

-> I want to feel how human intimacy feels like

-> I want to feel what physical vulnerability feels like.

I'm 28 and at this point, it's safe to say, I care about her.

I want to protect her.

I want her to feel wanted with me.

Again, she is not a bad woman.

It's just that she never felt seen or understood by her husband the way she felt all this way with me. 

His husband is cold, and follows what her mother entails and just struggles to make decisions on his own and does what his mom prefers.

This has been the norm for the past 10 years.

But regardless of anything he has never cheated on her...

And I just don't want to hurt a man whom I don't even know anything about.

And the pressure from her for sleeping with me is also too strong

I might end things with her by 26th of this month.

I told her this upfront to which is very sad about because of how unstable our bond has become.

Please advice guys.

What would you have done if you were in my position?

How would you reframe this situation inside your mind at your end.

Much thanks,

P.S. This is something we have discssed together and we both know how wrong it is but she is adamant on the idea of not thinking about it at all and wants me to quieten her conscience. She is also afraid by the idea that sometime down in time, I might raise fingers at her and accuse her this is something she said she wanted...(not gonna do anything like this to her)

But the emotional connection between me and her just developed so intense and so fast only because I cared and understood the things she had been keeping inside her for 20 or more years.