hello all I have problems sending emails from my VPS to Hotmail and Gmail email accounts. This is a new VPS with some new websites so they are not blacklisted for spam or anything like that. After users register at my website they receive a welcome email, but with Hotmail/Gmail accounts they end up by default in the spam/junkfolder. I also have a refer-a-friend and a forgot password form -> with gmail users they both end up in the spamfolder, with hotmail users they both do not show up at all! I read somewhere that editing the DNS zone could solve this problem with adding a SPF record (see also http://www.openspf.org/). I have added the most common SPF record "v=spf1 a ~all" as TXT record type but after a few days nothing has changed. Hopefully someone can help me out here so all email send from the VPS to Hotmail/Gmail email accounts will directly be send into the inbox. best regards Fraloom
Thanks a lot for the feedback! In the php mailscript the from address was different than the domain name (so Hotmail/Gmail spamfilters could indicate this as possible spam), so i changed this both to: define("EMAIL_FROM_NAME", "webmaster@mydomain.com"); define("EMAIL_FROM_ADDR", "webmaster@mydomain.com"); Secondly i asked support to setup reverse DNS for the primary IP of the domain, this is already done but could take some time for the dns change to fully propagate so i will keep you updated about it. best regards Fraloom