Stupid one but please need help
My whole site is set and running beautifully.
One niggling problem which is really beginner level but will be helpful if someone could answer:
Citadel mail server is sending emails to gmail which are getting market spam by gmail.
So I set up a reverse DNS to point to my domain name.
Can someone help?
My site is at
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Solution is easy. Login into your Linode account, select your linode instance (probably just a single line there). Click onto "Network" option (along the dashboard/console) up there. Then you can see "Reverse DNS" near the bottom, just go there and put name of your mail server (mail.investingcontrarian.com) into the "Hostname Lookup". Your are nearly done then.
gmail still puts it in spam even after making reverse DNS entries
Also if you can grab the headers of the message received by gmail it might have a note why it's marked as spam in there.
Here is the header from GMAIL. Cant seem to make any sense.
Received: by 10.231.30.202 with SMTP id v10cs8022ibc;
Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:43:56 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.101.199.40 with SMTP id b40mr9032836anq.208.1271209430702;
Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:43:50 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <
Received: from www (
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 15si28188082iwn.6.2010.04.13.18.43.49;
Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:43:49 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of
Return-Path:
Any clues to what is happening?
"Testing now"
I do not have SPF link.
Any idea how to add one? Is that the reason why GMAIl filtering this as spam?
If these are all right, Gmail should learn to leave your mail in inbox once enough of your readers click "Not spam" on it, I guess…
Also, did you consider "outsourcing" your mail processing to Google Apps? It's free if you have less than… checks 50 users
And may be better, give your server a real name (not the www), and set the reverse dns according to it.