Emails Going To Spam And Cant Receive Emails VestaCP - email

i am trying to setup mails on my VestaCP, i have made MX, Dmarc records, followed every guide about these records on google but there are 2 problems.
Here is my mxtoolbox results
https://mxtoolbox.com/domain/letsupload.co/
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1st Problem -/
The first problem is that all my mails sent from contact#letsupload.co are sent into spam folders, though i created all required records.
2nd Problem -/
I can send emails from my webmail but i cant receive them, when i send email from gmail it gets sent, there is no error that my email was not delivered but i dont receive it in my webmail.
Please help me out.

You will find that not many people will help because of the lack of code. Just always make sure that when you ask a question like this wondering why something isn't working, you provide code so people can pin point a problem. Stack Overflow don't put that page there before you ask a question because they think you're stupid, they do it so you can get a more specific and the best response to your question. So just make sure you give this a look.
However, I had a similar issue before where all my mails were being sent to the spam folder and they're a few things that could be the cause:
Mail Client Reverse DNS Checks: You mentioned that you are using a personal domain but one thing to remember is that your domain will have its on DNS server.e.g. if you are with GoDaddy that would be the default DNS setting. So the problem is that when you send an email to lets say a #outlook.com email server the mail client of the recipient will do a reverse DNS check. So it realises that you are sending to an #outlook.com but the email is coming from #letsupload.co. So it realises that you are sending from an IP that isn't related to the domain you sending to and that is what SPAM is! Like I said without seeing your code I can't exactly know how to help but if you aren't aready using a mail server with Authentication enabled that could be a cause. Try using a server with authentication and add this code:
// I am using $mail as my instance of PHPMailer
$mail->Host = 'your-new-server-with-authentication';
$mail->Port = 587; // usually the default port (double check though)
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
// now define the username and password for your mail server
$mail->Username = 'your-username#mailserver.com';
$mail->Password = 'OpenSesame123';
Reply to: You can also try adding a reply-to email address. Some mail servers tend to put emails in spam that don't have a reply email address to stop bots from spamming a person's email account. So try adding this if you haven't already:
// I am using $mail as my instance of the PHPMailer
$mail->AddReplyTo('youremail#domain.com');
Implementing SPF: If the above to fail then the chances are that you need to implement SPF. You can learn all about this from an expert on the subject gr8gonzo here is the tutorial and article he wrote on the subject. That will not only just help with implementing SPF but also with the best practises for when you're sending emails.

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sending mail through cakephp3 appends via cp-in-12.webhostbox.net

i am facing a problem when i send email using cakephp3 on my hosting. Emails are being sent but when i view the recieved email in browser i see this along with the email address from i'm sending the email
From: no-reply#mail.com via cp-in-12.webhostbox.net
However when i check mail in phone's gmail client 'via cp-in-12.webhostbox.net' does not shows up.
Here is my code
$email = new Email('default');
$email->from(['no-reply#mail.com' => 'no-reply#mail.com'])
->to('mymail#gmail.com')
->subject('Test Mail')
->send('Thank You! for purchase! its a test mail');
}
Please help.
Thank You
Google appends the "via mail.domain.com" when the sending domain does not have any sort of SPF records on it. It's to notify users that the email may not have originated from the "From" email address' domain, but since you don't have any restrictions (set by SPF), Google can't tell if you're a bad guy, or just haven't set up your records yet. You're going to want to either setup some SPF and DKIM records (check with your webhost on how to do that), and that should eliminate those messages. The reason it doesn't appear on iPhone is because that platform does not have that feature.

Sending email to hotmail accounts

I know there are lots of questions on here already about being able to send emails to hotmail. I have read through them all, as well as lots of online posts over the last few weeks and have still been unable to fix this issue.
The issue that I am having is that I am unable to send emails to customers who have a hotmail email address. I can send emails to yahoo fine, I can also send emails to gmail as well (although these seem to go to the junk folder), however when I sent emails to hotmail email addresses, they just seem to never arrive.
I am using swiftMailer in a PHP Symfony2 Application to send the emails.
The server that my application sits on is a Linux CentOs box and I have open relay turned off
I have sent emails to 'auth-results#verifier.port25.com' to check that SPF, DKIM and Sender-Id is setup correctly. Partial output of that report is below:
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Summary of Results
SPF check: pass
DomainKeys check: neutral
DKIM check: pass
Sender-ID check: pass
SpamAssassin check: ham
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The DomainKeys check is neutral, i'm not sure if that is required as as DKIM is an extension on the DomainKeys.
I have setup a v=spf1 record and a spf2.0/pra record in the DNS as TXT entries.
My help on this would be greatly appreciated. I think the issue may be to do with Sender-ID, but I dont know too much about this subject area.
Check your mail server logs. Are you seeing something like this for delivery to your Hotmail recipients:
550 SC-001 (COL004-MC4F43) Unfortunately, messages from xxx.xxx.xxx.xx weren't sent. Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their network is on our block list. You can also refer your provider to http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx#errors.
If so, then it means that your mail server IP is on Microsoft's blacklist. You probably won't have much luck sending to users at live.com, outlook.com, or msn.com either. Fortunately, there is a solution. See the link below for a decent guide on how to resolve the problem:
https://www.rackaid.com/blog/hotmail-blacklist-removal/.
The key is to submit a request to Microsoft to remove your IP address from their blacklist (at https://support.live.com/eform.aspx?productKey=edfsmsbl3&ct=eformts&wa=wsignin1.0&scrx=1), but don't do that until you are sure that whatever caused you to become blacklisted has been resolved, as Microsoft doesn't like repeat offenders.

Emails not going through properly to a single domain

I've searched all around, made several changes over the past two weeks, and still no luck so here I am.
We just put up a new site, and there are 3 different forms. Each form sends to a different email of theirs, a forwarder that sends to the same email of theirs (I had to make this after I figured out there was a problem with them not receiving emails from the website), and one of our emails.
Currently, they use office 365 for their email. A few days ago I figured out to change the SPF record, so I added the IP of their current website.
Here is the current SPF record:
v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com ip4:23.229.157.193 a ~all
I'm stumped. I've sent test submissions, and they receive the forward, and I receive it from my email, but the email that it's supposed to be sent to doesn't receive it.
I don't have access to their office 365 account. I tried a different option of sending the emails through swiftmailer, but GoDaddy doesn't allow me to connect to their smtp details, so that's a bust.
Has anyone encountered this problem before and know of a solution? All help is greatly appreciated.
THE SOLUTION:
After hours of calling, I was able to get the problem solved. I should have edited this earlier, but better late than never. In cPanel, there is an area for routing mail. It was set to local, rather than remote. Every email that came through went to the local emails, and since their were none, they were discarded. After changing the option to remote, the emails started flowing through. After the 3rd or 4th call, I reached someone who's actually dealt with this problem because he explained what was happening and the fix in under two minutes, unlike the others. I hope this helps anyone in the future with the same problems I encountered.
If you've configured SPF on your sending smtp server, you can configure a _dmarc
DNS record with an email address for the receiving server to send mail reports to...
Better yet, if this 'new' server is not required to be fully operational while you set up everything - you can set the _dmarc record to tell the receiving server to reject anything that doesn't pass the SPF test.
In any case, if you are setting up an email server that will send messages to any outside Internet address, and you have the ability to install software on the server - you should install and configure:
SPF, DKIM, and have a dmarc DNS record.
If you don't have these items, it's very likely much of your site's notification email will end up in the subscribers' spam box, or worse rejected by the receiving server.
Several good websites that have helped me:
unlocktheinbox.com
dmarcian.com
emailsecuritygrader
protodave.com dkim key checker
appmaildev.com domainkeys test
gettingemaildelivered.com

Messages sent to gmail from custom domain going to spam

I know this isnt kind of perfect type of message to post here, but I will give it a try:
When I send an email from my domain to gmail, it automatically goes to spam. On customer support, they told me that my domain isnt on any kind of blacklist.
Here are the headers:
http://pastebin.com/QVYrDQbz
Ask gmail recipients to move messages from [GMAIL]/Junk folder to Inbox folder (IMAP terminology) or mark it as "not spam" via web interface.
As long as recipients do not tell gmail its "classification as (possible) spam" had been wrong gmail assumes it has been right.
It may help to publish spf record for domain of email sender especially when sending host is in another domain
DKIM signing of outgoing messages may help too
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en#authentication

Basic understanding of SMTP: mail from

I'm implementing an application in ruby on rails (although this is a minor detail) that needs to send emails. Everything works fine, but I'm surprised cause when the app sends a mail, as long as it's authenticated against the smtp server, the sender it's going to be whatever it's specified in mail from. My point is, I can authenticate in a smtp server with "myuser#mydomain.com" and "mypassword" and be able to send a mail in which the recipient would see whichever address I want as sender.
This doesn't make any sense for me, and I'm sure it can't be so easy. I know it's surely a completely silly question for most of you, but would really appreciate anyone could make it clear for me.
Cheers!!
You authenticate as a generic user, it is only an accident that your login name is similar to a mail address. And yes, usually you can send mail with any reverse-path (reverse-path is the address in the MAIL FROM SMTP command). This may be necessary, for example a list manager uses VERP and sends mails with many unique reverse-paths.
However, some mail servers and mail administrators do place restrictions on the reverse path and the address in the From header. Especially, if the server signs the message.
Moreover, if the receiving server checks SPF records, it is useless to impersonate a remote domain, even if it is allowed, because the mail will be rejected anyway (if the domain publishes an SPF DNS record).