You spent hours setting up your Linux mail server. You send a test email. It vanishes into spam....
You spent hours setting up your Linux mail server. You send a test email. It vanishes into spam. Here's what's actually happening — and how to fix it permanently.
The real reason emails end up in spam
It's almost never your content. Modern spam filters care far more about authentication than keywords.
When Gmail receives an email from your server, it asks three questions before it even reads the subject line:
Is this server authorised to send mail for this domain? (SPF)
Your SPF record looks correct. You added the include values your email provider told you to add. You...
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You spin up a VPS, install Gitea, and realize it needs to send email. You point it at port 25....
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are three DNS-based authentication records that stop your emails from landing in spam and prevent criminals…
If you use Formspree to handle your HTML form submissions, you may have noticed something frustrating...
Revenue dropped overnight. Your transactional emails — password resets, invoices, order confirmations...
