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I'm setting up a new mail server with postfix dovecot and things are working fine except this strange thing. I'm unable to send email to gmail addresses. The log shows status sent. However, I checked there is no email in gmail mailbox.

Jul  8 13:10:08 example postfix/smtp[5294]: B53B637C233: to=<[email protected]>, relay=gmail-smtp-in-v4v6.l.google.com[173.194.79.26]:25, delay=2.2, delays=1.5/0.08/0.49/0.14, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK 1341727808 nc7si50672387pbc.75)

However, my other account can send to gmail. After several testing, then I found that if I first send email from gmail, then subsequently I can send from my server and email received by gmail.

I don't have this issue with Yahoo. What could be the problem?

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  • What do your SPF records look like? Jul 8, 2012 at 6:24
  • If I check the mail server domain mail.example.com, it says "v=spf1 a -all". But on example.com, it does not return any record. This is from kitterman.com/spf/validate.html
    – BARON'S
    Jul 8, 2012 at 6:33
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    The e-mail has been accepted by gmail. Go talk to them about why they failed to deliver it to the mailbox.
    – womble
    Jul 8, 2012 at 6:34

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The logs say "sent". So the mail has been sent by you and accepted by Google.

Google then (probably) found your mail "spammy" and discarded it. This is a Google mail processing problem which can only be solved by Google itself. Or send mails that don't look spammy. Follow these instructions for example: E-mail sent with postfix are marked as spam

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