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How to forward emails to my custom domain to my Gmail account?

Simple solution: Use http://improvmx.com/ and then set your MX records and you are done.
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Sent emails pass SPF and DKIM, but fail DMARC when received by Gmail

The issue is caused by inconsistent between return-path and header From:. Return-Path: mandrillapp.com From: @seesawsf.com SPF and DKIM check the domain using RFC5321.MailFrom (generally Return-...
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Gmail flags email as spam if it contains link to my website

From Google's bulk senders guidelines: While Gmail works hard to deliver all legitimate mail to a user's inbox, it's possible that some legitimate messages may be marked as spam. Gmail does not ...
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Adding non gmail custom email adress as new user on google webmaster tool

Think about Search Console as a service. You are adding users to this service. Each user needs to have a Google Account but does not need to have Gmail - which in fact is another service. In order to ...
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Gmail suspicious link message on my email links

If you're using http, you may need to make the switch to https. Check your IP address to make sure it's clean. You can check your blacklist status here: MX Toolbox.
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Why do my emails land in Junk Folder, despite following all the Email Verification steps?

It's possible that your domain's IP address was once spamming emails. If your VPS provider used the same IP address for a previous client, this could be the case. Also possible is that your domain ...
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GMail incorrecly marks solicited emails as spam when sending with Amazon SES and PHP List

You should post your message on the Amazon SES forum because the issue comes from Amazon SES IPs being blacklisted not you! Check your post above and you will see that the Amazon IP your email was ...
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GMail incorrecly marks solicited emails as spam when sending with Amazon SES and PHP List

After long time I have found the problem. And the problem is... Gmail. Gmail was incorrectly parsing the SPF record. The record itself was correct and it was validating correctly in ie. mxtoolbox. ...
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Has Google modified its preferred MX records?

Yes, they harmonised them some 10 years ago if I recall well. The "new" values were already there in 2014: https://web.archive.org/web/20140921234242/https://support.google.com/a/answer/...
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SwiftMailer - fsockopen() error 500

You do not need a SSL certificate in order to send a secure email, the same way desktop computers, tablets and mobiles phones don't need one either. This could be happening because your server doesn'...
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How to get company logo as contact icon in Gmail and Inbox?

you should become a customer of google apps for work. you get what you asked about through binding of your domain and dns (mx record) to google. you will have many possibilities to customize the look ...
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New Domain got marked as spam after 3 mailer in Gmail

You don't need to send a high volume of emails to be marked as spam, actually, one of the most important things are the ratio between people that clicked on "marked as spam", successful deliveries and ...
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Using Gmail SMTP server but DMARC p=reject is set in my domain

Passing DMARC actually comes down to passing SPF or DKIM, preferably both, aligned with your header.from domain. SPF is checked on the domain used in your return-path address, which is generally set ...
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Using Gmail SMTP server but DMARC p=reject is set in my domain

This is your problem: I recently implemented a DMARC policy of p=reject Use a less strict rule for testing until you can confirm everything works as expected. Something like this will give you ...
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Gmail sees all of our emails as spam after site has been hacked

Google not only depends on third party blacklists but also maintains their own internal blacklist. To remove your domain / IP from gmails blacklist you can use the form located at https://support....
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Mailchimp emails are not delivered to gmail or google app based email addresses

The actual resolution came down to changing my DNS manager. The original cpanel to manage DNS provided by nativespace.com was not working for whatever reason. After I switched my DNS manager to ...
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Mailchimp emails are not delivered to gmail or google app based email addresses

Contact Mail Chimp.. There are a lot of reasons why email are not being received and the top 1 is that the email was rejected. Gmail will reject most emails when the sender IP have no Reverse DNS ...
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How to get a booking confirmation to Gmail in Google Calendar

The markup you're looking for is schema data that needs to be embedded in the email HTML. You can find details of it in Gmail's reference docs: https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/reference/...
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Gmail suspicious link message on my email links

The answer lies in the trustworthiness of the sender. I needed to clean up my CNAME, A, DMARC, TXT records. I recommend skimming this youtube video for more details. Holy Trinity of Email Delivery ...
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How to transfer Google G Suite in the sale of a site?

Have the buyers explicitly outlined they wish to continue with G-suite as their mail provider? I'd leave it up to them to sort out their own email and hosting setup unless asked otherwise. Providing ...
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Transfer Search Console Ownership from one google account to another

Google has upgraded the new UI for Search Console: https://search.google.com/search-console/about So if you want to transfer the ownership to the new owner, do the followings: Log in to your Search ...
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Will creating a 301 redirect from old domain to new domain affect Gmail?

No, it won't affect you receiving or sending email through Gmail, as that will be using the MX records and SPF TXT records of xx1.com.
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BIMI, Gravatar. Sender image still not showing up in gmail

I found two things that need to be addressed: For BIMI to work, you need SPF, DKIM, and DMARC to be configured and aligned. In your case, DKIM is not properly configured: https://mxtoolbox.com/...
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Is there a way to keep my email subdomain at mail.example.com?

It sounds like you want to have your domain name point to your Google Apps mail. If if that is correct, then add the following CNAME record to your domain's DNS settings: Name/Host/Alias: mail TTL: ...
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MX Record propogation time - Email working sometimes and sometimes not

When changing DNS providers it is very important to be careful to duplicate the zone file between the providers and to keep it online at the old provider for at least 48-72 hours before terminating it ...
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Reconfiguring DNS without losing Gmail

There could be a couple problems: Messed up MX records You need to make sure that your mail records (MX) point to Gmail. Google has a help document with instructions. CNAME apex record It is a ...
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As a bulk sender, is there a way to make Gmail show my avatar?

The avatar is powered both through the recipients own address book as well as through Google+ This works by making sure your Google+ email and domain name match the sender email address that the gmail ...
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My email is being marked as spam by Gmail and Outlook, why?

I know this is true for Outlook and Yahoo. I haven't had the problem with GMail. Some email systems will reject email from valid systems if you aren't well known enough(!). That is why a lot of people ...
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My email is being marked as spam by Gmail and Outlook, why?

It is possible this is due to the outbound messages not being authenticated with SMTP but instead sent out using a local mailer such as sendmail() without authentication. This has been common on web ...
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