Gmail spams the confirmation link

On sign up, Gmail spammed the confirmation link. You may want to look at adding a bit more information to the email to drop their rating of this. Always a fun time getting around spam filters…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Delivered-To: my.email@gmail.com
Received: by 10.103.17.195 with SMTP id 186csp714355vsr;
        Thu, 2 Jun 2016 07:55:32 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.194.223.41 with SMTP id qr9mr8910570wjc.61.1464879332232;
        Thu, 02 Jun 2016 07:55:32 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <help+verp-c1d7bf6fbbedb78b69eaff5f490a1e26@nextcloud.com>
Received: from nextcloud.com (mx.nextcloud.com. [88.198.160.131])
        by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y124si1873601wmd.22.2016.06.02.07.55.32
        for <my.email@gmail.com>
        (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128);
        Thu, 02 Jun 2016 07:55:32 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of help+verp-c1d7bf6fbbedb78b69eaff5f490a1e26@nextcloud.com designates 88.198.160.131 as permitted sender) client-ip=88.198.160.131;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
       dkim=pass header.i=@nextcloud.com;
       spf=pass (google.com: domain of help+verp-c1d7bf6fbbedb78b69eaff5f490a1e26@nextcloud.com designates 88.198.160.131 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=help+verp-c1d7bf6fbbedb78b69eaff5f490a1e26@nextcloud.com
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=nextcloud.com;
	s=mail; t=1464879331;
	bh=vx6XZOAsMwGyJ0CHXDrwVkBmE6XObEQy7Le91bXILxY=;
	h=Date:From:Reply-To:To:Subject:From;
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Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 14:55:31 +0000
From: noreply@nextcloud.com
Reply-To: noreply@nextcloud.com
To: my.email@gmail.com
Message-ID: <48a9cd6b-94fa-4c54-8e93-8285d9685829@help.nextcloud.com>
Subject: [Nextcloud] Confirm your new account
Mime-Version: 1.0
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated


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Welcome to Nextcloud!

Click the following link to confirm and activate your new account:
https://help.nextcloud.com/users/activate-account/63d466098070d0cee20c9d6c1a4a7795

If the above link is not clickable, try copying and pasting it into the address bar of your web browser.

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<p>Welcome to Nextcloud!</p>

<p>Click the following link to confirm and activate your new account:<br><a href="https://help.nextcloud.com/users/activate-account/63d466098070d0cee20c9d6c1a4a7795" target="_blank">https://help.nextcloud.com/users/activate-account/63d466098070d0cee20c9d6c1a4a7795</a></p>

<p>If the above link is not clickable, try copying and pasting it into the address bar of your web browser.</p>
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Yeah. That’s a little bit annoying. The best thing you can do is actually manually move the confirmation mail out of spam. Because then our domain gets a better rating for others as well.

We’re looking into ways to make our mail delivery for such generic mails more reliable. Since we’re having a new server with new IPs the rating of that one is also not very high. That should however change soon hopefully.

If somebody has some ideas how to improve our rating quickly: Let us know!

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I did. Twice in fact since i changed my email to a different email. The second email address is on Google Apps.

e.g. for Gmail: https://gmail.com/postmaster/

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Nice! I’ll get this setup.

Seems like we still need to wait some more time before I can see reliable data here. Worth a try anyways!

Thanks, @mar1u5.

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