I have a personal domain and I use a mail account on it (it's not Gmail). Recently, all the emails I send (personal and business messages, not bulk) keep getting into the recipients Gmail Spam folder (I checked with several recipients).
Why is that and what can I do?
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I checked and my domain is not in the blacklist.
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When looking at the message in the Spam folder, it states "It's similar to messages that were detected by our spam filter".
However, this is a personal message I wrote to someone – not a newsletter or a bulk message. -
My sites and mail server are on a shared hosting service. But until recently I didn't have this problem.
Best Answer
OK, seems I SOLVED the problem for now. I'm posting here for anyone who encounters the same issue.
What I did was:
Created PTR record in my domain's DNS settings
Enabled DKIM in my domain's hosting
Created SPF record in my domain's DNS settings (see explanation and examples at https://www.sonicwall.com/en-us/support/knowledge-base/170504417772166)
Created DMARC record in my domain's DNS settings (see explanation and examples at https://www.sonicwall.com/en-us/support/knowledge-base/170504796167071)
You can use https://mxtoolbox.com/domain to check domain health and problems with DNS.
Good luck!