[itdiscuss] Domain getting tagged as spam in gmail

[Phillips, Paul]

It communicates valid Email servers that are defined to send mail for a
domain name.  Anti-spam engines use the SPF record to tell if the
sending server is authorized to send mail for your domain.

 

 

Paul Phillips

IT Manager

 

(770) 458-9300 x305

pphillips at walkthru.org <mailto:pphillips at walkthru.org> 

 

From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of blloyd at buskercom.com
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 8:19 AM
To: discuss at itdiscuss.org
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] Domain getting tagged as spam in gmail

 

What is the purpose of an SPF record?

 

 

Bill Lloyd 
IT Manager

 

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Phone: 770-417-1604
Fax:     770-417-1747
Cell:     404-379-6963

blloyd at buskercom.com

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From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of dave
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 7:52 AM
To: 'IT Discussion Forum'
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] Domain getting tagged as spam in gmail

 

mtw.org doesn't seem to have correct info in DNS for your SPF record.
That would help in scoring the e-mail properly.  You can check for
yourself here:

 

http://www.kitterman.com/spf/validate.html

 

Dave Waters

 

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From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Thompson, Ken
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 6:55 AM
To: IT Discussion Forum
Subject: [itdiscuss] Domain getting tagged as spam in gmail

Is anyone else having an issue with email from your domain getting
tagged as "SPAM" in Gmail and Yahoo mail? This just started a few weeks
ago for us. @mtw.org messages are going into the Gmail Spam folder for
any new people we connect with and send email to.

 

For instance, a person gives us their email address and wants us to
communicate with them. We add them to our contact list and then send
something to them. We don't hear back from them and so someone calls.
Come to find out, our message to their gmail account went into their
gmail spam folder.

 

This is not happening for people with whom we've been corresponding for
some time - only seems to be new gmail accounts. 

 

Of course, Gmail customer service is awesome (if you can find them) -
I'm being facetious here - they don't write back. So, have been digging
around the web trying to find an answer. 

 

Is anyone else experiencing this? Does anyone have any thoughts on what
might be happening. We've seen this with Gmail and Yahoo email - both of
whom are using Postini I believe - and only in the past couple months.
I've checked our status on the spam blocking services and MTW is NOT
blacklisted on any of these that I can tell or see.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Ken Thompson

IT Manager, Mission to the World

www.mtw.org

ken.thompson at mtw.org

 

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