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

[Lisa Kachold]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Joseph Sinclair <plug-discussion at stcaz.net
> wrote:

> 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 :)
> >
>

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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