Kindo and Hotmail...

By now, many people have started to notice and also like Kindo… The footprints are from all over the world, or what do you say about:

• SPAIN: http://www.visualbeta.es/1675/redes-sociales/kindo-mas-que-un-arbol-genealogico/
• USA: http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/beta–Building-Your-Family-Tree/
• SWEDEN: http://www.emerge.se/2007/03/18/10-2-populara-familje-och-foraldrasajter/
• GERMANY: http://www.web2null.de/kindo

Well, enough of language school for today… If it is a fact that many people are starting to like Kindo, its also a fact that the popular email service Hotmail doesn’t really embraces us -We have noticed how some of the emails we send out to Hotmail users goes directly into the “junk mail”-folder of the recipients. To fix this has proved to be easier said than done!

Let’s not get too technical here but the problem arises when a service like ours send out too many mails per day. This is then recognized by Hotmail who flags us as a spam. (how dare they!) We have during the last week gone through a quite long list of things in order for Hotmail to validate us as “good guys”. Some things have been to create a “spf-record”, a little text file in an open database where we say that Kindo sends mail from “this and that” ip-address. Further we have signed up to Microsofts “Smart Network Data Services”, studied the Postmaster Guidelines in detail etc without any result… When we contact Hotmail, they can only say that it’s the “Smart Screen Filter” that stops us.. (duh).

We have seen how many other web-services have the same problem so it’s not a unique thing for us. Being optimists, we are working on another solution that we hope will work soon! (It’s not sending them a box of chocolate… that’s way further down on our list.) Until then, if you have sent out emails to your family without any action from their side, you might want to tell them to check their junk folder.

With the new Kindo release, it’s also much easier to view all the outstanding invitations and e.g. send out reminders. Have a look on http://beta.kindo.com

Take care all Kindo-family out there!

Posted by Morbror Martin in Bugs, Development, General | Trackback |