Emails sent by Appengine Java marked as SPAM in GMAIL
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Aleem Mawani
Jan 13, 2012, 10:17:46 AM1/13/12
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I'm trying to send notification emails to the users of my appengine application. Gmail is marking all of the emails as Spam. Here's what I'm doing:
- using high level javamail API in appengine
- setting the from address to be an administrator of the appengine account (say f...@example.com)
- setup a SPF record on my example.com as follows: v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all
- this is outlined here: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178723
- on example.com, I have added the appengine application to the google apps cpanel
- I'm just sending plain text notification emails (i.e. "Someone has just commented on your post, go here to reply")
After doing the above (and waiting the necessary time for the SPF record to take effect), all of my emails are still going to the gmail spam folder.
Any ideas on how I can debug this?
UPDATE:
after looking at this thread, I tried to set the from address to f...@myappname.appspotmail.com and the email went through just fine - did not get caught in Gmail spam folder. Seems like its something to do with my custom domain?
Ikai Lan (Google)
Jan 13, 2012, 1:32:30 PM1/13/12
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What email address did you use?
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Aleem Mawani
Jan 13, 2012, 1:40:15 PM1/13/12
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Ikai Lan (Google)
Jan 13, 2012, 1:45:51 PM1/13/12
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Thanks for replying.
I don't have an answer for this, and it really sucks to get flagged as a false positive if you aren't sending spam. My suggestion is to try some other addresses, given that the email went through via the @appspotmail address, it was likely not the content that got it flagged as spam. Sometimes, if the pattern of the email address looks like something a spammer will use, it may trigger Gmail's (quite excellent) spam protection.
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Aleem Mawani
Jan 13, 2012, 1:48:41 PM1/13/12
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Yup the same content is getting through when using the appspotmail address. It seems that just the from address/domain is what causing the issue.
If this can't be solved, is there any way to alias mailfoogae to streak so that I can send emails as notifi...@streak.appspotmail.com?
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