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    <p>I'm sending out emails via my PHP application. However, they're getting marked as spam by Gmail. Here's how I'm sending the email (PHP):</p> <pre><code>$headers = "From: test@bookmytakeout.com\r\nReply-To: test@bookmytakeout.com"; $mail_sent = mail( 'munged@gmail.com', 'test mail', $message, $headers, '-ftest@bookmytakeout.com' ); </code></pre> <p>Gmail spams this message. So I went and clicked that handy "show original message" option. Here's what I get:</p> <pre><code>Delivered-To: munged@gmail.com Received: by 10.68.71.200 with SMTP id x8cs325812pbu; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:34:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.114.234 with SMTP id c70mr12483739yhh.163.1311237292052; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:34:52 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: &lt;test@bookmytakeout.com&gt; Received: from vps.bookmytakeout.com ([8.22.200.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u61si3662037yhm.119.2011.07.21.01.34.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:34:51 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 8.22.200.47 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of test@bookmytakeout.com) client-ip=8.22.200.47; DomainKey-Status: bad format Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 8.22.200.47 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of test@bookmytakeout.com) smtp.mail=test@bookmytakeout.com; domainkeys=neutral (bad format) header.From=test@bookmytakeout.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=bookmytakeout.com; h=Received:To:Subject:From:Reply-To:Message-Id:Date; b=WYWQ+/9+wOAvq+OUSM5KLDAueciIoNiByXaVV29HYa0XbSwm2f+89TCj8pW24G7k1vTGCvR8n64iSwgPQuoEitz6ehbszd0+75Px0WlGsvyeZGrW3PaYEpkRFmkDoaGe; Received: from munged by vps.bookmytakeout.com with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from &lt;test@bookmytakeout.com&gt;) id 1QjolW-0001Vn-Us for munged@gmail.com; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:07:31 +0530 To: munged@gmail.com Subject: test mail From: test@bookmytakeout.com Reply-To: test@bookmytakeout.com Message-Id: &lt;E1QjolW-0001Vn-Us@vps.bookmytakeout.com&gt; Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:07:30 +0530 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - vps.bookmytakeout.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gmail.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [1005 1000] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - bookmytakeout.com test </code></pre> <p>Now, I have no idea how to diagnose what could be setting off gmail's spam filters. Can someone please point out what part of this email is setting off the spam filter?</p> <p>If possible, please post a solution as well. I'm more interested in learning what's wrong with the headers than in how to fix this for now.</p> <p>PS: I have a few suspicions of my own:</p> <ol> <li>the Received header says "vps.bookmytakeout.com" but the From header says "bookmytakeout.com" - but I tried sending it with From as test@vps.bookmytakeout.com - same problem, still spammed.</li> <li>The headers "Received-SPF", "DomainKey-Status" and "Authentication-Results" seem to indicate some problem. I distinctly remember NOT setting up any MX records for this domain name. Could that be the issue?</li> </ol>
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    1. CONeutral SPF is not a problem per se, it just means they have not whitelisted you, and/or you don't use SPF. The DKIM error seems somewhat more unsettling -- what does your DKIM record say?
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