My mails are makred as SPAM by Gmail

[iv.zhekov]

Hello,
Most probably it was already discussed, but I didn't found a solution. I have a dedicated server with you, and registered few domains on it. I want the server to act as a mail server with the possibility to both send and receive messages through POP3/SMTP.

Unfortunately when I use my server to send SMTP messages, Gmail is putting them into the spam. What should I do?

[Dougy]

Hello,
Most probably it was already discussed, but I didn't found a solution. I have a dedicated server with you, and registered few domains on it. I want the server to act as a mail server with the possibility to both send and receive messages through POP3/SMTP.

Unfortunately when I use my server to send SMTP messages, Gmail is putting them into the spam. What should I do?

Have you contacted Google to check out why it might be?

Do you have proper reverse DNS set up? SPF records? The works?

[brad]

Hi,

Both SPF and rDNS/PTR records are related not the the hosted domain, which can be anywhere as sending mail from a secondary server is common...but rather the sending mail IP. Each domain should have an ip4: entry for each sending IP (typically this is just a single entry).

Likewise with rDNS/PTR. Make sure that every IP that sends mail is has an entry that resolves forward to it. For example:

[brad@home ~]$ dig bradq.com a +short
67.202.96.149
[brad@home ~]$ dig -x 67.202.96.149 +short
bradq.com.

Thanks for posting this so everyone can reference it. Be sure to contact support@steadfast.net for any urgent issues though...we'll respond in 2-10m rather than 3 days!