> On 16 Feb 2016, at 08:04, Gilles Chehade <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Agreed. For IPv4 I do not even seem to need DKIM here. 
But with native IPv6 delivery, it is a different story and may require slightly 
more effort.

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> https://www.poolp.org                                          @poolpOrg
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