On 2023-01-18 at 00:16:53 UTC-0500 (Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:16:53 -0500)
John Covici via mailop <cov...@ccs.covici.com>
is rumored to have said:
hmmm, I have one for covici.com -- does this not cover the subdomain?
No.
I don't even think my registrar can have an spf for a subdomain.
That would be remarkably weak on their part. SPF is just a DNS TXT
record that starts with 'v=spf1' and you can have one for any name in
DNS. You have MX records for ccs.covici.com, so surely you can add a TXT
record for is.
On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 21:08:18 -0500,
Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote:
One very obvious one I hit right away. You seem to be sending
from @ccs.covici.com, and it has no SPF record:
https://www.whatsmydns.net/#TXT/ccs.covici.com
A good, solid SPF record is a bare minimum these days. Google is
requiring it more than ever, and while the message they're giving
you isn't the one I'm used to seeing for that, every negative
point about the email you send is a mark against you which means
every aspect you can improve on is relevant.
On 2023-01-17 18:03, John Covici via mailop wrote:
OK, well, now I can't send even to a single gmail address. What is
mail-tester.com --I have never used it? Is it a website?
On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:20:09 -0500,
Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote:
On 2023-01-17 17:06, John Covici via mailop wrote:
Still broke for me.
I believe your issue was different from the one in this thread
and best summarized by your message in that separate thread:
On 2023-01-17 10:31, John Covici via mailop wrote:
Hi. For some reason this morning, I am having problems sending
to
gmail addresses. I get the following error for each:
<<< 550-5.7.1 [166.84.7.93 12] Our system has detected that
this
message is
<<< 550-5.7.1 likely unsolicited mail. To reduce the amount of
spam
sent to Gmail,
<<< 550-5.7.1 this message has been blocked. Please visit
<<< 550-5.7.1
https://support.google.com/mail/?p=UnsolicitedMessageError
Now I have had no problems sending to gmail, but this message was
send to maybe 40 users or so -- is this my problem, or am I doing
something else wrong?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
It's arguable which is worse, but this is definitely different
than spam folder delivery. I would argue your situation is better
because I'd rather know it wasn't delivered than tell someone to
check their spam folder, because people just don't and you have
little clear insight into the fact that they absolutely need to
look there. That said, I just performed a log audit and I do not
see a recent increase in these error messages from our side. I'm
not Google, obviously, but we process enough email that I feel
like polling my logs can easily indicate a trend of lack thereof.
My first instinct in your position would be to use something like
mail-tester.com to get a basic check over your headers, DNS,
etc. I know it's not wildly popular on this list but in a world
where the average user still runs to mxtoolbox, mail-tester.com
is exponentially better in it's assessments.
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