Email Deliverability Recommendations

I host my WP site on my server. I use Google as my email provider for my domain.

So, if I send you a standard email from [email protected], it’s going to funnel through Google’s servers.

However, I have a contact form on my website which is also mydomain.com. Since it’s my domain, those emails are delivered through my server’s email system, not Google’s servers.

Here’s the issue. You visit my site and leave a comment on a post. Then someone replies to your comment on the site. You get a reply notification email from [email protected] but it’s really coming from my server (not Google). It hits your spam folder because your email realizes [email protected] just got sent from my server and not Google’s servers.

Since Google Apps runs all my email for my domain, I’m not sure exactly what to do, since those notification emails are sent through my server.

I have DKIM and SPF records set up in the domain’s DNS, but that’s not the issue. The issue is my server spoofs my own domain in sending emails.

Hopefully this made sense. ??

What do you do to avoid this problem? Thanks!

D.J.