OT: Why does my Google hosted email gets caught in others spam filters?

Bryan O'Neal Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com
Sun Jun 27 10:43:35 MST 2010


I'm using gmail's web interface provided with my google apps setup so it is
definitely going through google :)

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:

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> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Joseph Sinclair <
> plug-discussion at stcaz.net> wrote:
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>> Only thing I can think of is that you're not using the Google outbound
>> SMTP gateway?
>> As long as you're using your GAFYD account on the Google SMTP gateway,
>> then Google
>> is doing the SPF and DomainKey stuff, so there's no good reason for it to
>> end up in SPAM filters.
>>
>> That said I've noticed certain popular email systems do seem to have
>> something that flags email from
>> Google rather frequently; I suspect it's a rule that specifically targets
>> Gmail or Google Apps emails
>> as being somehow more likely to be SPAM (which is garbage), but I can't be
>> certain.
>>
>> Bryan O'Neal wrote:
>> > So I have been using my @TheONealAndAssociates.com email address for
>> years
>> > now. It is hosted by Google Apps and has been since the name was
>> pressed.
>> > However more and more my email is ending up in peoples spam filters. How
>> can
>> > I solve this?
>> >
>> > If I ran my own email server I could go down the list of server IP
>> maches
>> > FQDN matches RPtr DNS has SPF records and DomainKey records and all
>> email is
>> > signed, etc, etc, etc, but what do I do for google? I am not willing to
>> give
>> > up Google Apps so if your sugestion is set up post fix it will fall on
>> def
>> > ears. But if you know something about this situation and can offer
>> > additional advice I would love to hear it :)
>> >
>>
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> You failed to add PTR TXT records as described in the instructions at
> gmail.
>
> Evaluate your DNS to ensure these are correct
>
> You can also evaluate your mail header per the RFC, in case you are
> creating it via php for instance.
>
> And as Bryan suggested, this is most probably your DKIM PTR TXT DNS
> records.
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