For main.cf please check the forum, there should be 2 big topics where i help other people with settings. For DNS remove “----- DKIM key default for desertpursuit.com” because sometimes it can cause a problems and really no need to use it anyway. While you play around DNS you can lower TTL to 300sec so you dont need to wait 10h and 40min for changes to take effect.
P.S. Changes in TTL will take effect after old one expire, e.g. for TTL of 5 min you must wait for old TTL to expire in this case it will be almost 11 hours.
I have just moved the server to another location in hope that that would stop the spamminess of the emails, but so far no change.
Followed the DNS advice, thanks.
Are there changes I could make to main.cf that would help with this problem? I did some searching for the topics you suggested not getting anything. Can you be more specific with topic name or date of topic? thanks
When you say “spamminess” you mean your emails get marked as spam, you get a lot of spam or both? For the topic title sorry i cant remember and this forum is a mess, try to use google to search for my name.
Spamminess meaning emails get marked as spam
In my changing around and setting up on another server and still getting the problem I decided to run up another server at the same location (different IP, but same range) and do a quick test with Mail-in-a-Box.
It was pretty quick to get it working and I sent a test mail to google and yahoo and both were successfully delivered and not marked as spam.
Here are the headers for the message marked as spam from the email server configured with virtualbox
Delivered-To: removed@gmail.com
Received: by 10.229.86.2 with SMTP id q2csp4598591qcl;
Thu, 11 Jun 2015 01:29:24 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.180.73.10 with SMTP id h10mr17168564wiv.3.1434011363681;
Thu, 11 Jun 2015 01:29:23 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: removed@kusikiliza.com
Received: from stratus.kusikiliza.com (stratus.kusikiliza.com. [188.226.145.162])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id w1si23185351wju.16.2015.06.11.01.29.22
for removed@gmail.com;
Thu, 11 Jun 2015 01:29:23 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of removed@kusikiliza.com designates 188.226.145.162 as permitted sender) client-ip=188.226.145.162;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
spf=pass (google.com: domain of removed@kusikiliza.com designates 188.226.145.162 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=removed@kusikiliza.com;
dkim=pass header.i=@kusikiliza.com
Received: from [192.168.0.200] (unknown [197.87.145.202])
by stratus.kusikiliza.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6C427A0554
for removed@gmail.com; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:29:21 +0200 (SAST)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kusikiliza.com;
s=default; t=1434011362;
bh=dYIangUNfdcPXK94RrQIOlKBMPfrdq+H1k8dWbSxC0k=;
h=Date:From:To:Subject;
b=wUDV1PErtg+w+oohn3zKilKbo9KD8snGlQAQVl6ZwLX8pU/4VS+UqSa7zoloJBrms
9mWgrZl1f/abvMTUc12h06STvfQ+N8omf1qlM4DHH1wFa9XhV7WrZTZ0jCOezX2XOh
N7c4Kh77NguZbgGJ7wpkOrlnCLcil/DBLwCjeQaQ=
Message-ID: 557946DF.60300@kusikiliza.com
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:29:19 +0200
From: removed Phillips removed@kusikiliza.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
and here a successfully delivered email not being classified as spam sent from Mail-in-a-Box
Delivered-To: removed@gmail.com
Received: by 10.229.86.2 with SMTP id q2csp4629190qcl;
Thu, 11 Jun 2015 02:29:35 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.194.95.41 with SMTP id dh9mr14967858wjb.55.1434014975417;
Thu, 11 Jun 2015 02:29:35 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: me@aurorarelaxationholidays.com
Received: from box.aurorarelaxationholidays.com ([188.226.235.121])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id hq3si863782wib.22.2015.06.11.02.29.34
for removed@gmail.com
(version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128);
Thu, 11 Jun 2015 02:29:34 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of me@aurorarelaxationholidays.com designates 188.226.235.121 as permitted sender) client-ip=188.226.235.121;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
spf=pass (google.com: domain of me@aurorarelaxationholidays.com designates 188.226.235.121 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=me@aurorarelaxationholidays.com;
dkim=pass header.i=@aurorarelaxationholidays.com;
dmarc=pass (p=QUARANTINE dis=NONE) header.from=aurorarelaxationholidays.com
Received: from authenticated-user (unknown [127.0.0.1])
(using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
(No client certificate requested)
by box.aurorarelaxationholidays.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E267E143339
for removed@gmail.com; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 05:29:33 -0400 (EDT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple;
d=aurorarelaxationholidays.com; s=mail; t=1434014973;
bh=znoxKe+g0YpDbYzC5kfOPxk5YIpOxiNhRRNDoORgfHc=;
h=Date:From:To:Subject:From;
b=xio3Vr1dcHJGAZYLEsXwPCxZEa59OcgppfsZrO9bBNZsksOUsTOW/E88E/OdhiQAy
HltB2HcQYWFP2eYaCGSVNfvu8hYbd4HRAcVdDg1UjMSDZNy6YKdpUo7Huq/bfdOaa5
hOq0+fQp1351msbzIOWa6jQNTaEyYCXVNKEM3yLE=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII;
format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
The clear differences are dmarc and “Received: from authenticated-user”
UPDATE: As I write this post I have been testing sending emails and I seem to be getting some success with delivery now, but only with Usermin. What seems to fail is sending through Thunderbird.