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Email landing in spam of Gmail

September 28, 2013 3.7k

Hi, I have setup an email postfix server & dovecot Some how all my emails are landing in spam in all the gmail a/c. Can someone suggest what is to be done


Message-ID: <5246FD92.30802@eskool.biz&rt;
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 21:32:26 +0530
From: eskool <admin@eskool.biz&rt;
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: ImkaZpnsOA@www.brandonchecketts.com
Subject: ImkaZpnsOA@www.brandonchecketts.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

ImkaZpnsOA@www.brandonchecketts.com

Thanks in advance Regards, Preetam

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9 Answers

pablo September 28, 2013

Check out How To use an SPF Record to Prevent Spoofing & Improve E-mail Reliability.

How To use an SPF Record to Prevent Spoofing & Improve E-mail Reliability

by Pablo Carranza

A carefully tailored SPF record will reduce the likelihood of your domain name getting fraudulently spoofed and keep your messages from getting flagged as spam before they reach your recipients.

preetam September 28, 2013

I had got the spf record set for the domain. is there anythng wrong with that?

pablo September 28, 2013

Help us, help you by showing us what your SPF record looks like.

preetam September 30, 2013

v=spf1 +a +mx +ip4:162.243.27.163 ~all

pablo September 30, 2013

According to some DNS testing tools I found online, it appears as though you're missing PTR records.

kamaln7 MOD September 30, 2013

Rename your droplet to the domain you're going to send mail from.

camoatech October 14, 2013

What if you are using multiple domains?

kamaln7 MOD October 16, 2013

@camoatech: The mail server's hostname should match the domain you're sending mail from otherwise it'd be considered as spam by most email providers. However if you add SPF and DNS records that point to your droplet it should be fine.

dirk2099 December 11, 2013

I am running into the same issue. I have this SPF record set for all my domains in the DNS and my email still ends up in gmails spam folder. Here is my SPF record:
@ v=spf1 mx ip4:192.241.174.155 -all

Or should I be using this?
@ v=spf1 a mx ptr ip4:192.241.174.155 -all

Any help would be appreciated. I am at a loss. I have checked the spam lists from here http://www.spamhaus.org/query/ip/192.241.174.155 and everything looks good. I have also done this DNS check http://www.intodns.com/truenorthgranola.com which everything looks good.

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