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phpmailer going into junk

arggggh.

         

midtempo

10:14 am on Feb 7, 2010 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



been struggling with this for three days and am completely at a dead end. any help MOST appreciated.

using phpmailer to send small volume, one email at a time. everything i send ends up in junk.

here are the inbound headers

Return-Path: <mail@example.com>
Delivered-To: 13-admin@example.com
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.9 (2007-02-13) on domain.com
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=7.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00,
HTML_MESSAGE,MAILTO_TO_REMOVE,MISSING_MIMEOLE autolearn=no version=3.1.9
Received: (qmail 30333 invoked by uid 110); 7 Feb 2010 09:56:29 +0000
Delivered-To: 2-admin@example.com
Received: (qmail 30329 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2010 09:56:29 +0000
Received: from localhost (HELO subdomain.mail.com) (127.0.0.1)
by localhost with SMTP; 7 Feb 2010 09:56:29 +0000
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 09:56:29 +0000
Return-Path: mail@subdomain.example.com
To: admin <admin@example.com>
From: The Website System <mail@subdomain.example.com>
Reply-to: admin <admin@example.com>
Subject: please see this post
Message-ID: <d2d70a8361e72e2cdad7bb3621fe18ca@subdomain.example.com>
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: PHPMailer [version 1.72]
X-MSMail-Priority: Medium
Importance: Medium
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="b1_d2d70a8361e72e2cdad7bb3621fe18ca"


i'm including both plain and html versions of the message, there's an unsubscribe link in the footer, there's an SPF record for the domain (but the host isn't set up for DKIM)

can anyone see anything that may be causing my email clients (both entourage and thunderbird, plus hotmail, gmail and yahoo) to all think this is junk?

tia

Kris

midtempo

11:50 am on Feb 7, 2010 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



okay... a little more investigating (using the spf query tool) tells me:

Mail sent from: ***.***.***.***
Mail from (Sender): mail@subdomain.example.com
Mail checked using this SPF policy: v=spf1 a mx ip4:***.***.***.*** ~all
Results - ambiguous SPF Ambiguity Warning: No MX records found for mx mechanism: subdomain.example.com


Mail sent from: ***.***.***.***
Mail Server HELO/EHLO identity: subdomain.example.com

HELO/EHLO Results - none

does this mean that i've got to add a record for each (dynamic) subdomain. if so... @&$#!

midtempo

12:05 pm on Feb 7, 2010 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



alright. part 3 (will keep posting here till i get it working...)

added a *.example.com spf txt to the zone record

now have

Mail sent from: ***.***.***.***
Mail from (Sender): mail@subdomain.example.com
Mail checked using this SPF policy: v=spf1 a mx ip4:***.***.***.*** ~all
Results - ambiguous SPF Ambiguity Warning: No MX records found for mx mechanism: subdomain.example.com


Mail sent from: ***.***.***.***
Mail Server HELO/EHLO identity: subdomain.example.com

HELO/EHLO Results - PASS sender SPF authorized


which is a step in the right direction, but no improvement on the spam filtering.

midtempo

12:24 pm on Feb 7, 2010 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



and a *.domain.com mx record

so we now have:

Results - PASS sender SPF authorized

so spf is all lovely now.

checking the mx, everything's fine. and no blacklist results showing.

but still no improvement on spam filtering.