On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 06:49:05PM -0800, Steve Conrad wrote: > Has anyone else noticed how gmail dumps messages from new mailservers into > the spam heap by default? > > A bit of a slap in the face after going to all the trouble of setting up my > own domain and hosting it on my own smtp server. > > I can see where it fits into google's panoptic vision of global domination to > undermine the efforts of independant operators, but this still seems a bit > over the top. > > While I have no interest in salting google's data mine with my personal > correspondence, unfortunately, many of those with whom I correspond seem > cheerfully oblivious to the down side of total surveilence. I grow tired of > telling them to go fish my mail out of their spam folder. > > Eventually, if they mark a few of them as not spam, it starts to work as > expected. Still, I can't help but feel that google is abusing its position of > market dominance in order to make perfectly standards compliant, well > configured mail servers look like such a shabby hack that people are really > better off sticking with gmail and leaving smtp to the experts. > > Thoughts? > Work arounds? >
Unless you send large volumes, dkim-signing your mail, setting up a SPF record and making sure you have a proper rDNS and matching EHLO is just enough to get you inbox if your message is a regular mail. -- Gilles Chehade https://www.poolp.org @poolpOrg -- You received this mail because you are subscribed to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send a mail to: [email protected]
