Question
My emails are going to Gmail Spam. Droplet created Using LAMP on Ubuntu 14.04 Application. Postfix email.
- Posted June 17, 2014
Hey,
I created a droplet using the LAMP on Ubuntu 14.04 Application. And apt-get installed postfix and mailutil. Any time I send an email to Gmail it goes to the spam folder.
My Zone file is as follows: <pre> $TTL 1800 @ IN SOA NS1.DIGITALOCEAN.COM. hostmaster.iio.io. ( 1402857717 ; last update: 2014-06-15 18:41:57 UTC 3600 ; refresh 900 ; retry 1209600 ; expire 1800 ; ttl ) IN NS NS1.DIGITALOCEAN.COM. NS NS2.DIGITALOCEAN.COM. NS NS3.DIGITALOCEAN.COM. MX 10 iio.io. *.api CNAME api.iio.io. *.www CNAME www.iio.io. @ IN A 188.226.244.148 www IN A 188.226.244.148 api IN A 188.226.244.148 @ TXT “v=spf1 ip4:188.226.244.148 ~all” mail IN A 188.226.244.148 *.mail CNAME mail.iio.io. </pre>
And the received email is as follows: <pre> Delivered-To: niall1402@gmail.com Received: by 10.220.15.7 with SMTP id i7csp184731vca; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:28:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.195.13.79 with SMTP id ew15mr35734652wjd.19.1402997327993; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:28:47 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: niall@iio.io Received: from mail.iio.io (mail.iio.io. [188.226.244.148]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id b2si11777622wik.18.2014.06.17.02.28.47 for niall1402@gmail.com; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:28:47 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of niall@iio.io designates 188.226.244.148 as permitted sender) client-ip=188.226.244.148; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of niall@iio.io designates 188.226.244.148 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=niall@iio.io Received: by mail.iio.io (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EB8C9201AF; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 05:28:46 -0400 (EDT) Subject: morn test 2 To: niall1402@gmail.com X-Mailer: mail (GNU Mailutils 2.99.98) Message-Id: 20140617092846.EB8C9201AF@mail.iio.io Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 05:28:46 -0400 (EDT) From: niall@iio.io
test morn 2
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I’ve tried editing the SPF1 record and MX record. I’ve renamed the droplet to mail.iio.io. I’m not sure why it’s still failing and what I can try next?
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My mistake - DKIM is set by Google.
I added opendkim but it didn’t make a difference. Emails are still flagged as spam.
I signed up to Zoho and it works which is great. But I’d still like to figure out how to get emails working without having to use a third party.
Thanks jt,
I doubt that will make a difference as it’s not set when mail is sent from Gmail but I’ll give it a try.
Setup DKIM. It will help authenticate your emails but still isn’t a guarantee that Google will mark them as spam.
Email is a hair pulling game and a lot of people decide to use third party options like Google Apps, Outlook.com, or Mailstache.io.