Redmine emails marked as spam (was: fork or clone/branch?)

> Check your spam folder. A bunch of people have run into issues with redmine emails going there over the last few months.

This has been going on long enough. Took a quick look as to why this
might be the case.

  1. A record and PTR match, so that's not the issue:
    projects.theforeman.org. 3552 IN A 173.255.232.203
    203.232.255.173.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer projects.theforeman.org.

  2. spf record looks a bit odd? Might need to dig in and confirm it's
    doing what we want.:
    theforeman.org. 3600 IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx ptr ~all"

  3. Seems no MX records for theforeman.org domain. I'm not sure if this
    is a problem, but if I were writing a spam filter, "no mx record"
    would certainly be a red flag for me.

  4. I checked RBL lists for this IP, and it came back clean.
    http://www.anti-abuse.org/multi-rbl-check-results/?host=173.255.232.203

  5. Is there something else going on that might be getting these
    flagged as spam? (It's pretty universal for users of gmail for sure,
    and it's definitely our problem.)

>> Check your spam folder. A bunch of people have run into issues with redmine emails going there over the last few months.
>
> This has been going on long enough. Took a quick look as to why this
> might be the case.
>
> 1) A record and PTR match, so that's not the issue:
> projects.theforeman.org. 3552 IN A 173.255.232.203
> 203.232.255.173.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer projects.theforeman.org.
>
> 2) spf record looks a bit odd? Might need to dig in and confirm it's
> doing what we want.:
> theforeman.org. 3600 IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx ptr ~all"

This is OK, I just signed up to redmine from gmail and the headers show
it validated.

Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of noreply@theforeman.org
designates 173.255.232.203 as permitted sender) client-ip=173.255.232.203;

> 3) Seems no MX records for theforeman.org domain. I'm not sure if this
> is a problem, but if I were writing a spam filter, "no mx record"
> would certainly be a red flag for me.

Yeah, it's technically valid though, as the A record is used as a fallback.

> 4) I checked RBL lists for this IP, and it came back clean.
> http://www.anti-abuse.org/multi-rbl-check-results/?host=173.255.232.203
>
> 5) Is there something else going on that might be getting these
> flagged as spam? (It's pretty universal for users of gmail for sure,
> and it's definitely our problem.)

My activation e-mail went straight to spam in gmail too, with a popup
saying that many users had marked them as spam. Not sure what we can do
about that, the help pages weren't terribly useful.

··· On 28/05/13 17:03, Brian Gupta wrote:


Dominic Cleal
Red Hat Engineering

>>> Check your spam folder. A bunch of people have run into issues with redmine emails going there over the last few months.
>>
>> This has been going on long enough. Took a quick look as to why this
>> might be the case.
>>
>> 1) A record and PTR match, so that's not the issue:
>> projects.theforeman.org. 3552 IN A 173.255.232.203
>> 203.232.255.173.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer projects.theforeman.org.
>>
>> 2) spf record looks a bit odd? Might need to dig in and confirm it's
>> doing what we want.:
>> theforeman.org. 3600 IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx ptr ~all"
>
> This is OK, I just signed up to redmine from gmail and the headers show
> it validated.
>
> Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of noreply@theforeman.org
> designates 173.255.232.203 as permitted sender) client-ip=173.255.232.203;
>
>> 3) Seems no MX records for theforeman.org domain. I'm not sure if this
>> is a problem, but if I were writing a spam filter, "no mx record"
>> would certainly be a red flag for me.
>
> Yeah, it's technically valid though, as the A record is used as a fallback.
>
>> 4) I checked RBL lists for this IP, and it came back clean.
>> http://www.anti-abuse.org/multi-rbl-check-results/?host=173.255.232.203
>>
>> 5) Is there something else going on that might be getting these
>> flagged as spam? (It's pretty universal for users of gmail for sure,
>> and it's definitely our problem.)
>
> My activation e-mail went straight to spam in gmail too, with a popup
> saying that many users had marked them as spam. Not sure what we can do
> about that, the help pages weren't terribly useful.

If you still have it, can you forward me a copy of the registration
email with headers intact?

Thanks,
Brian

··· On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Dominic Cleal wrote: > On 28/05/13 17:03, Brian Gupta wrote:


Dominic Cleal
Red Hat Engineering


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