r/email

Hey everyone,

I'm 21, based in India, and I want to start a cold email agency. I've done real estate cold calling before so I'm not new to outbound but the agency side is new territory for me.

Here's where I'm stuck.

I have 3 people in my life who are ready to let me run cold email for them right now. No pressure on results, they trust me, and I can get real testimonials from them:

1. HR & Staffing (UAE) — family connection. They do HR and staffing in the UAE.
2. Blinds Business (Canada) — a friend runs this. The idea is targeting restaurants as B2B buyers.
3. Sustainability (US) — another friend's business. Already started testing, sending 40-50 emails a day.

Three different industries. Three different countries. All ready to go now.

On top of this, I personally want to go deep into financial services long term - M&A, insurance, business broking, stock broking. But I have zero warm clients there right now. Just genuine interest.

So here's the tension.

Every piece of advice I read says niche down from day one. Pick one vertical, own it, become the go-to person. I get it.

But I have 3 real clients across 3 different industries ready to go today. They're low pressure. I can learn, get testimonials, figure out what I'm actually good at and then use that proof to go after other clients.

My questions:

1. Is running multi niche a mistake when you're just starting even if the clients are relaxed and there's no pressure?
2. How did you go from working with anyone to picking a niche? What made you commit?
3. Anyone done cold email for financial services?
4. How did you know when it was the right time to niche down?

Not looking for theory. Want to hear from people who've actually been here.

Thanks

Hi, I have been sending emails for the past 5 years past month, and my emails have started landing in spam. I have set up everything, everything is perfect, SPF, DMARC, DKIM, no blacklist in the domain, and still landing in spam. I have checked my IP Address, and it shows my IP is blacklisted on 4 of the blacklists. I have raised the removal request and they have removed but still I'm not hitting the inbox.

We are building an AI driven Email Agent (assistant) product with a generous free tier, what would be key features you would like ?

What we currently focus on in the free tier

- Keep you current email and email client

- we sort all your incoming email so you see what is important / spam / phishing / notifications / etc

- Every email that needs a reply we will draft a reply for with AI , you just need to review and push send

- conversational setup of how you want to manage your email

What do you think ? what would we miss ?

I'm wanting to change my Gmail. Make one that is more grown up over the childish one I have now.

Can I transfer apps I have purchased? Or will I need to buy them again?

After struggling for years with Brevo for tracking my transactional and campaign emails I decided to make an app for it. Brevo website is slow and very annoying to use, this app is easy to setup and use. Get an API key from Brevo and connect your account in the app, thats it.

You can monitor everything and the search function works for EVERYTHING, subject, email, name etc.

You can even connect multiple accounts, so no logging in and out anymore.

Search for "Emailtracker for Brevo.com" in App Store or Playstore to download it

I 18(m) am soon be going to college and other things and i have made a huge and terrible mistake of using my old email with a VERY cringe address and affiliated with many bad apps and much bad digital footprint in various official forms and competetige exam forms and many other official things and im a dumbfuck who should have obviously used a new one which ive created now and now i want to change it and heard abt the new feature abt changing username but ig it hasnt reached my gmail plzz help me how do i change all of it

I have a list pf close associates I email periodically. After emailing them I text and tell them I did so. Most say they have opened it, and Hubspot agrees with them. Some say they opened it but Hubspot shows delivered but not opened. And some cannot find the email in spam or suspect or junk folders even though Hubspot says delivered. Most of my list are on gmail, then iCloud, and then the occasion Yahoo.

Any insight into what is going on here?

I'm moving my website to a new host and want to transfer a handful of email accounts. I have lots of old emails that I don't want to lose. My plan is to save the email accounts locally in Outlook by backing up the PST files, then create brand new, empty email accounts in the new host cpanel. This should work, right? Anything else I need to be aware of?

I’m genuinely pissed at this point.

How the hell are you guys doing cold email at scale and actually landing in inboxes?

I’ve tried this twice now, changed setups, tested variations, spent money, followed all the “best practices” people keep repeating… and I’m still landing in spam like crazy.

This time I literally did everything “correct”:

• .com TLD
• Plain text emails only
• 1 month warmup
• Started with 2 emails/day, ramping up slowly (+10% daily)
• Max 27 emails per inbox/day
• 3 Google Workspace inboxes
• No tracking
• No links or images in first email
• DKIM, SPF, all that technical crap done properly through Cloudflare

And guess what? Still spam.

Inbox tests:

• Mailreach: 7.9/10
• GlockApps: 25% inbox, 75% spam
• GMass test: sent to 5 test emails, barely 1–2 hit inbox
• My own inbox test: 3 inboxes, 1 spam (the funniest part? The spammed inbox was the one I barely even used)

Tools I used:
Saleshandy as email sequencer
Trulyinbox for email Warmup

At this point I honestly don’t know what shit I’m doing wrong.

For people actually getting replies and landing in inboxes… what the hell finally fixed deliverability for you?

Hey!

I am genuinely so sad. I have now been doing outreach for about 4 months. In this time I have had some really good leads, that i was super confident about, but never got an answer back.

Now i find out, I am going to spam😭 And I have been going this whole time. No wonder almost no-one has written back.

Yes it was a new email. Its a hostinger Mail domain. I didnt know that I was supposed to “warm up” the account. I just thought if i dont send 100’s a day I will be fine. I am so sad, and genuinely dont know what to do. Ive found some really good leads and now i find out I am somewhere in the spam folder.😭

If you can help me id really appreciate it. Thanks

Met with a guy today who runs a lending platform for SMBs exploring a potential referral partner setup. He mentioned one of their email partners sourced about $4M in deals, which based on their rev share model probably netted them around $100K.

Then he dropped this: that partner sends 1 million emails per day.

For context, I run cold email campaigns for clients and we're typically in the 20K–100K per month range depending on the client. I've heard of bigger shops doing 1M per month, but a million per day? That sounds wild.

My immediate reaction: is that even feasible from an infrastructure standpoint? And more importantly, isn't this exactly why people don't open cold emails anymore?

So I'm asking the group:

1. Is 1M/day actually doable for a single operation?
2. Is it reasonable to assume that kind of volume leads to real results, or is it just spray-and-pray at scale?

Genuinely curious what people think here.

Hey everyone - setting up cold outbound for our early-stage startup (4 domains ready to go) and I'm hitting a wall trying to understand how all the pieces fit together. Non-technical founder here so apologies if these are basic questions.

Background:
We have 4 domains registered specifically for outbound and sitting in Cloudflare. Planning to launch cold outbound this summer. I've been told we need to "warm up the domains" before sending, use a tool like Instantly for campaigns, and figure out mailboxes. That's where I'm lost. My questions:

On domain warming:
What does "warming a domain" actually mean? Like what's happening mechanically?
When people say warm a domain, do they mean warming @domain (the domain) or warming name@domain (a specific mailbox)?
How does Instantly (or any warming tool) actually do this? What's the process behind the scenes?
If domain is just DNS sitting in Cloudflare, why does which mailbox provider I use even matter for warming?

On mailboxes and infrastructure:
Can I warm using one provider (like Zoho Mail - they're free for small businesses) and then switch to sending from Google Workspace once it's warmed? Does the reputation transfer?
Can the same email address exist on both Zoho and Google Workspace at the same time? Or can it only live in one place?
I keep hearing about providers like Winnr, Mailforge, etc. - what are these and how do they compare to just using Google Workspace?
If Winnr provides mailboxes AND has built-in warming, why would I still need Instantly?

On the technical setup:
We already added SPF, DMARC, and MX records to all 4 domains. Can someone ELI5 what SPF and DKIM actually do?
Can I start warming with Instantly before connecting actual mailboxes? Or does warming require live inboxes?
Why do I need to check existing DNS records before adding new ones? What breaks if I don't?

On doing this at scale:
This whole process seems incredibly tedious (set up mailboxes, warm each one for 2-4 weeks, configure DNS for each domain).
How do startups actually do this at scale without losing their minds?
For 4 domains doing cold outbound, how many mailboxes would you typically set up per domain?

Honestly just trying to understand the architecture here. Feels like there are 5 different tools doing overlapping things and I can't figure out which ones I actually need vs which are optional.

Any clarity would be massively helpful. Thanks in advance.

How can I reset tuta mail password without recovery code and Forgot old password, but logged in device??

Hello, everyone!

I have a client who hasn’t sent a single email in years.

He’s just started sending emails, and they’re all ending up in SPAM. Plus, it’s completely ruined his domain’s reputation.

Now he wants me to fix this issue, but I’m not quite sure how to do it.

I’m very familiar with cold emails because I use them to find clients. I know about Instantly for warming up email accounts.

Should I sign up for an Instantly plan with his domain and run it for a month to see if it improves the health?

Do you recommend any other way?

P.S. I’d like to know if I can keep sending emails while I’m warming up the domain.

Can someone seriously help me understand/figure out why my emails are constantly being Mail Delivery Subsystemed? I use gmail. I have upgraded to workspace. Still emails are being rejected mostly to yahoo or aol address. Thoughts?

hey everyone so ive been doing cold email for about 3 months now mostly for a small agency offering web design and i keep hitting a wall around the 1 percent reply rate mark

my subject lines are short like 2 to 4 words and i personalize the first line with something i actually found on their site or linkedin but for some reason nothing is really landing

quick question for the people getting 5 percent plus replies do you keep your first email super short like 3 lines or do you go a bit longer with more context about what you do

also curious if anyone has tested using a question as the opener vs leading with a compliment or observation about their business

would love to hear what actually moves the needle for you guys appreciate any tips

The other day I was in my email and decided to remove the "passkey" option because I have never had a USB to plug in and sign me in. After removing the Passkey I was kicked out of my email on all devices. Now I cannot get back in. I try to do a recovery but get this message "No recovery options listed. This account can no longer be accessed. To keep using Yahoo, create a new account or go to Help for more options."

But when I call the number 1-800-305-7664 and it looks up just the first 3 letters it reads of the full email and when I enter my other email it shows the one I am locked out of as being connected.

How do I get access to my email account????

This email account gets my important emails in relation to utilities, mortgage, medical, banking, my daughters school, and so much more. I can't lose access to this information!

I am getting a lot of spam messages through my websites contact form. One person sends a message, then sends again hsing didferent email addresss. How can I stop this?