Gmail – Guarantee email never goes to junk—Gmail / Google Apps for Business

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We use Google Apps for Business to run our emails (Gmail) and we have quite a few emails that we get from the same people / the same address (@company.com) / or same subject, that always seem to go straight to junk.

I’ve tried adding these people as contacts, in Google Contacts, and also set a Gmail filter, to Never send it to Spam, Mark it as important, but sometimes they still go to the junk.

Any idea how I can 100% guarantee an email doesn’t go into the junk?

Best Answer

The sender's domain may have incorrectly configured SPF or DKIM records. Google checks these and honors them. If the sender is a Google Apps domain, you are in luck and can send them these:

http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=33786

http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=174124

If you take one of the messages that went into spam, do "Show Original" and paste here: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/EmailHeaders.aspx you will be able to look at the anti-spam headers of the email that was sent.

Fail is likely a problem but neutral could be a problem too.