: Use email via Google Apps to avoid shared hosting issues with blacklisted IP I currently use a hosting package that is used both for the website and emails. Since it is a shared hosting the

@Cugini213

You're on exactly the right track.

Mail is sent using the domain's MX record, if it's present. If it's not, it'll use the A record for the domain. So if you setup an MX record pointing to Google's mail servers, that's the IP address that will be checked against Blacklists.

This came up on ServerFault: serverfault.com/questions/381460/emails-are-regularly-blacklisted-due-to-being-hosted-on-a-shared-blacklisted-s
Analogy
You put a sign on your mailbox at home that says "No Flyers". You know that the Mail-man will respect it. Yet you come home every evening and your mailbox is still full of fliers. To combat this further, you hire a security guard to watch your mailbox. But you only want him watching the mailbox, and not inspecting the actual contents of your mail. So you go around your neighbourhood and find out who, other than the mail-man, delivers flyers and you put them all on a "blacklist". You give this blacklist to your security guard and instruct him to not allow any of those people to put anything into your mailbox. Now whenever someone approaches your mailbox, the security guard ask the person who they are, and checks if they're on the Blacklist. If they are, they get maced. If they're not, they can put whatever they want to in your mailbox. The security guard doesn't care who the mail is originally from, or what's in it. He only cares about who's delivering it so that he can stop people that he knows deliver flyers.

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