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title: "Was your email returned to you / rejected?"
description: "Issue:An email was returned/rejected/bounced back to you. Status: We are actively monitoring our mail servers for blacklisting Who is impacted?At this time we are not aware of a specific..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/email/email-blacklisting/
date: 2013-07-18
modified: 2021-08-16
author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor"
categories: ["Email"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# Was your email returned to you / rejected?

| Issue: | An email was returned/rejected/bounced back to you. |
| --- | --- |
| Status: | We are actively monitoring our mail servers for blacklisting |
| Who is impacted? | At this time we are not aware of a specific blacklisting. |

Do you have an email that was returned (or bounced back) with a message that you are **blacklisted**?

It’s not very uncommon for a server’s mail IP address to temporarily end up on a public blacklist, especially if you’re on a shared server. It could be because of the overall volume of mail that is coming from that server, messages seem to have characteristics of spam in them, or a few other factors as well.

Here is a helpful tool that can help you get more information about the returned email, or determine the cause:

[Email Parser Tool](/support/tools/bounce-back-parser/).

We also have a [full article](/support/email/why-do-mail-servers-get-blacklisted/) that explains why mail servers get blacklisted.