Question

I’m trying to send email verification emails from an app I’m writing. I’m running on Linode using server = smtplib.SMTP() and server.sendmail(). For some reason, gmail is marking these messages as spam.

My mail template is:

{% if define('From', 'CQ <[e-mail]>') or define('Reply-To', '[e-mail]') or define('Subject', "CQ: You've been invited to our beta!") %}{{fail()}}{% end %}

msg goes here

It also worked before when I made CQ be [e-mail] instead. However, when this way does not allow me to define a sender.

How do I fix this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

What server are you sending from? There are tons of other factors involved like IP blacklists, rate of messages, whether users have marked you as spam, DNS/reverse DNS, SPF records.

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