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Abhishek
Asked: 2012-06-09 08:37:14 +0800 CST

DKIM signed mails go to spam folder and do not show key icon

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I have installed DKIM for my sendmail and I have also configured it. But I still see that my emails are being considered as spam by gmail. Also, I do not see the "key" in the emails (even if I unspam it manually in gmail).

I used the procedure listed here to configure DKIM.

Am I doing something wrong?

ubuntu email spam sendmail dkim

2 Answers

  1. The fact that an email is DKIM signed does not exclude the fact that its content is not considered as spam. DKIM is a method that validates the sender and that the content is actually sent by the sender, not that the content itself is not to be considered as spam by some other classification method.

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  2. Did you create TXT records on your domain for your DKIM public key? If not, there's no way for Gmail to validate it.

    Do you have any SPF records setup to validate that your server can send emails from the domain? Is it configured correctly?

    There are also tools on the internet that will help you troubleshoot issues. A search like "DKIM validator" should give you some tools to verify the DKIM record is visible.

    Also, what do the headers say? Sometimes email servers add headers to indicate the reason why a message was sent to spam.

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