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VPS email landing on Spam directory
I have installed mailserver and setup email account but mail's that im sending landing on spam directory instead of inbox. I knew their should be some ip reputation but yet their should be a way to get those email on inbox. I tried everything with the help of Opus 4.5. It just give up and asking me to use reputated professional service providers WTF 😒
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Indeed that's the solution and it's very cheap. You have zeptomail, mxroute mail baby, name crane. You have even free ones with help of Google search. All works great and cheap for mail relay and delivery. Hassle and care free.
Give https://mail-tester.com/ a try.
There is soooo much variables left out of table. Asn, ip, mail server setup, dns etc. Sooo much!
Even that says 10/10 it will land in spam with Google/outlook/big corporations, specially if it's new IP and I believe there was some section where you can write them to whitelist or something(can be wrong I gave up with this when @jar came around, his service is too cheap to pass by)
Tried, its all good
how old is the domain?
also, when you test don't just write the subject and body with test or something similar. try put subject and body with lorem ipsum or use this https://lipsum.com/
Yes, this should be the first step. However, it does not guarantee that emails will land in the inbox.
Also test delivery to Hotmail/Outlook, as they have very strict filtering and rejection policies.
Have you set the reverse DNS (rDNS) of the IP to the VPS hostname.
Also, does the VPS hostname have the correct A record pointing to the VPS IP?
Already did
It shows all green
You can’t bypass IP reputation entirely. To land in inboxes, you need proper DNS authentication (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), reverse DNS, and a warm‑up strategy. If you don’t want to fight that uphill battle, using a reputable transactional email service (like Amazon SES, SendGrid, Mailgun) is often the only practical way to guarantee inbox delivery.
It also matters which spam folder you are landing in, because every one of them will likely be for different reasons. For example, if you are landing in spam folders at Microsoft you are actually lucky, but they need to see steady volume from an IP to build up and maintain reputation.
There's a reason mail server provider exists.
This is one thing I'll never self host. NEVER!
You just CAN NOT win.
Nothing much you can do (if you have done all setup)
Either wait or go with managed email
(If it's for business go with managed )