I believe my situation is extremely common. I have a site with the following setup. Registrar is Network Solutions. The DNS points to the webserver on Host Gator and the Email hosted on Google apps.
Recently, email that is being sent from the domain ([email protected]) at host gator started going into the spam of the one of the accounts hosted in Google apps ([email protected]).
I know I need to set up SPF records and DKIM keys so I did that earlier this week. Now that everything has propagated, it still isn't working. All mail sent from domain.com goes into spam on [email protected]. Sending email from the domain.com to other email addresses (not gmail) seem to be fine.
It's not likely to be a header issue, as I've tried multiple header setups.
- Registrar: Network Solutions - Setup DKIM and SPF record here
- Web Host: Host Gator - I tried to set up SPF here, but started thinking perhaps I should be doing network solutions instead
- Email: Google Apps - Generated key & Enabled DKIM
Keys have been modified, so don't bother making sure they match between screens :)
Network Solutions:
Google Apps Setup:
tl;dr - Email sent from my hostgator site goes into gmail spam. Am I doing something completely wrong or do I just have a fundamental misunderstanding of how this is supposed to work?
Perhaps DKIM still isn't fully propagated? That's what I was waiting on to hit "Activate" in Google Apps.
Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: by 10.107.39.139 with SMTP id n133csp1108697ion;
Sun, 6 Mar 2016 10:25:27 -0800 (PST)
X-Received: by 10.202.94.132 with SMTP id s126mr11449426oib.34.1457288727279;
Sun, 06 Mar 2016 10:25:27 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from gateway32.websitewelcome.com (gateway32.websitewelcome.com. [192.185.145.102])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n206si9214038oif.52.2016.03.06.10.25.27
for <[email protected]>
(version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128);
Sun, 06 Mar 2016 10:25:27 -0800 (PST)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 192.185.145.102 as permitted sender) client-ip=192.185.145.102;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
spf=pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 192.185.145.102 as permitted sender) [email protected]
Received: from cm1.websitewelcome.com (cm.websitewelcome.com [192.185.0.102])
by gateway32.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8B7E30F18F0A
for <[email protected]>; Sun, 6 Mar 2016 12:25:26 -0600 (CST)
Received: from gator3081.hostgator.com ([50.87.144.100])
by cm1.websitewelcome.com with
id SiRR1s00X2AB1R601iRSyK; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 12:25:26 -0600
Received: from ccaw by gator3081.hostgator.com with local (Exim 4.86_1)
(envelope-from <[email protected]>)
id 1acdMr-000HzA-8r
for [email protected]; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 12:25:25 -0600
To: [email protected]
Subject: Request from CCAW.net
X-PHP-Script: ccaw.net/old/test.php for 108.78.164.226
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
From: Al <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Recipient Name <[email protected]>
Subject: Request from CCAW.net
X-Mailer: PHP/5.4.45
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 12:25:25 -0600
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - gator3081.hostgator.com
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gmail.com
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [33055 500] / [47 12]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - gator3081.hostgator.com
X-BWhitelist: no
X-Source-IP:
X-Exim-ID: 1acdMr-000HzA-8r
X-Source: /opt/php54/bin/php-cgi
X-Source-Args: /opt/php54/bin/php-cgi /home3/ccaw/public_html/old/test.php
X-Source-Dir: ccaw.net:/public_html/old
X-Source-Sender:
X-Source-Auth: ccaw
X-Email-Count: 1
X-Source-Cap: Y2NhdztjY2F3O2dhdG9yMzA4MS5ob3N0Z2F0b3IuY29t
SPF Record now set