Help with GMail...

Thu Jul 23 19:54:49 UTC 2015

Kudos to Gareth T. who pointed out that I forgot to update my SPF 
record, which includes a "-all".

I've updated my SPF record and will try again after my old info expires 
out of caches.

-- 
Grant. . . .
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On 07/23/2015 02:42 PM, Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there were any GMail contacts on NANOG that might 
> contact me either on or off list for some help.
>
> I am having problems sending email to GMail from my new (< 2 weeks 
> old) Linode VPS.
>
>     tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (IPv4: 45.33.28.24, IPv6: 
> 2600:3c00:f03c:91ff:fe26:8849)
>
> I have forward and reverse DNS set up as well as following all of the 
> same practices that I have used to administer email servers for the 
> past 15 years. So, I think that I have everything covered.  (If I've 
> missed something, let me know and I'll take care of it.)
>
> Is there a chance that my IP address(es) (v4 and / or v6) have been 
> blocked because of previous IP user actions?  Or am I by chance part 
> of a netblock that is black listed?
>
> Below is the multi-line SMTP response that is showing up in the DSN 
> that I'm receiving.
>
> <<< 550-5.7.1 [2600:3c00::f03c:91ff:fe26:8849      12] Our system has 
> detected that
> <<< 550-5.7.1 this message is likely unsolicited mail. To reduce the 
> amount of spam
> <<< 550-5.7.1 sent to Gmail, this message has been blocked. Please visit
> <<< 550 5.7.1 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/188131 for more 
> information. f5si4126138oeo.56 - gsmtp
>
> Any help or suggestions you could provide would be greatly 
> appreciated. I'm in the process of migrating off of my old server to 
> my new Linode VPS as part of a move and would like to get this 
> quickly, if possible.
>
> As a temporary work around, I have routed gmail.com email to my other 
> Linode which can send email to GMail.
>
>     tncsrv05.tnetconsulting.net (IPv4: 109.74.192.125, IPv6: 
> 2a01:7e00::f03c:91ff:fe89:2935)
>
> Thanks for your time and any help you can provide.
>
>
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