Gmail marking mail as spam.

[c0rrup]

Gmail decides to mark my server mail as spam even though, I am not on any blacklists, my SPF records PASS, and my domain key is GOOD.

Does anybody have an idea why Gmail would be marking my mail as spam?

 

[immortalxx]

choice of keywords possibly? do you say Viagra alot in it? or use the word cheap :P

 

[c0rrup]

vbulletin activation emails : /

 

[immortalxx]

that is weird, what is ur outgoing email?

 

[Exel]

They aren't "legit" emails.
The auther of the emails form your server can be anything.

You need to set your server email to something like name@yourdomain.com

 

[c0rrup]

It's sending from admin@domain.com, what is wrong with that?

 

[SalmanAbbas007]

HMm maybe I know where is the problem. It seems like the emails are not sent from that adress actually admin@domain.com does not exists or is not setupped properly. just a guess.

 

[showstopper]

your server needs to sign your all email sent by it i never had this prob but u all should set your spf records properly i'll give an example how mine is set

 

[c0rrup]

Would sending the mail by SSL on port 465 be better than sending it with no security on port 25? Because for some reason I don't receive mail at all when I try to send it as SSL.

 

[showstopper]

Your txt record should look like

Host: yourserver.com

Text Description : v=spf1 a ptr ip4:0.0.0.0 mx:youremailserver.com ~all

the ip4 should be your server's external ip

 

[snowmanrene]

The mail settings on the server probably isn't setup properly and maybe a few people marked it as spam from the earlies?

 

[c0rrup]

Yeah I'm guessing that is the problem too, mx or dns entries need to be fixed possibly.

 

[jayfella]

dont use the admin account, never use admin for anything unless absolutely necessary. Secondly, double check that you dont need to add your username, and other details. If the mailserver is on the same server as the php/html server then it does not require authentication since it is regarded as in-bound traffic or some shit like that.

 

[desiboy]

make sure that your IP has rdns setup for your domain.. many emails provider even drop emails from IP's without proper rdns .

 

[c0rrup]

I'm sending mail with SMTP jay, yes the php/mail is on the same IP.

@desiboy I have rdns setup on my hostname IP but not my additional IPs.

 

[kd1987]

Open the "Original message" of spammed mail in gmail, check what is going wrong!

simple?

 

[iRakic]

Sending mail thru PHP's mail function with out proper headers are in most cases marked as spam.

 

[RAND0WN]

Somtimes gmail do this becoz of phising