DKIM, SPF, and DMARC are all but required now if you dont have them you can almost be promised to be binned until you build up sender rep, and even with them its still 20% chance to be binned until you send a ton of mail and build the appropriate sender rep with each service. that was the issue I ran into with O365. I had DMARC, DKIM, and SPF and they were still sending my messages to the spam queue because of lack of sender reputation, it took me 9 months of paying for their service before they even hinted to that being the problem as well.
-- Jason Barbier | E: [email protected] GPG Key-ID: B5F75B47(http://kusuriya.devio.us/pubkey.asc) On Mon, Feb 15, 2016, at 06:49 PM, 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? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > If the service is free, you're the product.
