Setting up a mail server with postfix, webmin and debian?

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tiyerl

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Hi i am new enough to managing a vps server but i know some of the basics using SSH and webmin. I have a problem with my email being sent from my server ending up in the spam folder of gmail. I have two domains and both are registered with namecheap so i can use there DNS to host my domains which are pointing to my VPS IP and i am using gmail accounts for both of them, mysite@gmail.com.

The name of my server is something like debian-lamp-64-server, should i change that to mail.domain.com? My postfix main.cf looks like this at the moment:

Code:
# See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version
# Debian specific:  Specifying a file name will cause the first
# line of that file to be used as the name.  The Debian default
# is /etc/mailname.
myorigin = /etc/mailname

smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU)
biff = no

# appending .domain is the MUA's job.
append_dot_mydomain = no


# Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings
#delay_warning_time = 4h

readme_directory = no

# TLS parameters
smtpd_tls_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
smtpd_tls_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
smtpd_use_tls=yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache

# See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for
# information on enabling SSL in the smtp client.

myhostname = debian-lamp-64-server
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
mydestination = debian-lamp-64-server, localhost, localhost.localdomain, localhost, 
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
 

mneylon

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Have you got proper reverse DNS setup for the main IP on the VPS?
Do domains sending from the VPS have SPF records setup which reference the VPS IP?


I don't see what your gmail email address has to do with anything
 

tiyerl

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Have you got proper reverse DNS setup for the main IP on the VPS?
I didn't do anything for reverse DNS, i followed this video to setup my domains and IP, minus the send mail part becasue i don't use it, i use postfix:

[video=youtube;UZc4CcauEn8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZc4CcauEn8[/video]

Do domains sending from the VPS have SPF records setup which reference the VPS IP?
I have a SPF record on the namecheap side, somthing like this, the zeros represent my IP:

v=spf1 ip4:00.00.000.000 -all

I don't see what your gmail email address has to do with anything

I have two joomla websites that send using a gmail address that go into the spam folder, thats it :)
 

mneylon

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You can't send from a gmail address as you don't control gmail's DNS records and your VPS wouldn't be "authorised" via SPF
 

tiyerl

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I changed the severs host name to mail.mydomain.com and i changed the reverse DNS, after a test email i dont get the yellow warning box saying that the email may not be from myaddress@gmail.com. Still going into the spam box but that may change overtime or i find another way to remedy it.
You can't send from a gmail address as you don't control gmail's DNS records and your VPS wouldn't be "authorised" via SPF

Thats right, my server sends outbound and i use gmail for inbound, does my SPF record look okay?
 
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