Mail ending up in junk mail

catalog · February 2013

Hi, I have just completed the set up of sendy and conducted a test sending an HTML email to 3 of my own email addresses. All three ended up in my gmail junk folder. I repeated the process with my old email solution using the same content and addresses but sending it from a gmail address and all three arrived in my mail box. Any ideas why it should consider this header junk?
The message is the same so it seems fair to rule that out of the equation.

Received-Spf: pass (google.com: domain of 0000013caa6931e1-67e4d04d-6c8b-40d6-820e-b22da7fbd899-000000@amazonses.com designates 54.240.8.34 as permitted sender) client-ip=54.240.8.34;
Message-Id: 0000013caa6931e1-67e4d04d-6c8b-40d6-820e-b22da7fbd899-000000@email.amazonses.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="b1_2c874fa4927afa767386e1ebff0bc3d0"
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Peter

Ben · February 2013

Hi Peter,

Your emails probably didn't get pass Gmail's junk filter.

Please see this existing thread http://sendy.co/discussion/594/sometimes-marked-as-spam#Item_13

Also, you may want to find more information about your emails getting sent to spam on Amazon SES's forum https://forums.aws.amazon.com/forum.jspa?forumID=90

Thanks.

Ben

catalog · February 2013

Thanks Ben I read that one and have also read the Amazon one. I used my existing emailer software with SMTP2Go and they didn't go to junk. Tried everything and can only get them to go into junk using SES. Very depressing as I had set my heart on it. It's all so clean, productive and usable.

catalog · February 2013

On further comparison the headers in sendy junked mail are quite different from those in our current mail manager received message. Is this a configurable option in sendy?

Received: from st11p00mm-smtpin003.mac.com ([17.172.83.252]) by ms01551.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-26.01 (7.0.4.26.0) 64bit (built Jul 13 2012)) with ESMTP id 0MHR00K6WGX10CK0@ms01551.mac.com for somename@me.com; Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:03:01 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from smtp2go.com ([207.58.142.213]) by st11p00mm-smtpin003.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-26.01(7.0.4.26.0) 64bit (built Jul 13 2012)) with ESMTP id 0MHR000J6GX01LV0@st11p00mm-smtpin003.mac.com for somename@me.com (ORCPT somename@me.com); Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:03:01 +0000 (GMT)
Original-Recipient: rfc822;somename@me.com
X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.9.8327,1.0.431,0.0.0000 definitions=2013-02-05_05:2013-02-04,2013-02-05,1970-01-01 signatures=0
X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=1 spamscore=1 ipscore=0 suspectscore=89 phishscore=0 bulkscore=100 adultscore=2 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1212290000 definitions=main-1302050138
Message-Id: Tw7WhBiFSQypAbYp5c9fhwqdnu26AMP02H3A7l0G1PFK@lockside.co.uk
Mime-Version: 1.0

Ben · February 2013

Hi @catalog,

The headers you've provided are generated by the email provider themselves, eg. Gmail, iCloud etc and cannot be changed.

What's passed as headers to Amazon SES (as specified in their API docs) looks something like these:

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:21:38 GMT
Host: email.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
X-Amzn-Authorization: AWS3 AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE,
 Signature=uN0lHIf14tmMBzwnkHzaWBLrBFvJAvyXCsfSYAvwLuc=,
 Algorithm=HmacSHA256, SignedHeaders=Date;Host
Content-Length: 230

Basically it contains the date, AWS access key ID and secret. There is nothing to change here to make your email go to the inbox.

It will help if you post this question on Amazon SES forum, they will be better able to help you better in this aspect.

Thanks.

Ben

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