emails are sent to spam folder despite having DKIM and SPF set?

Question

My emails are delivered to spam folder at gmail and yahoo mail. PTR, DKIM (1024 bit), SPF are okay. I don't know whether DMARC and ADSP or Domain Key are needed to be configured or else? In addition, I have checked Bulk Senders Guidelines "support.google.com/ ----> mail/answer/81126" but I think I am in compliance with it, except the Format section of the webpage. I wonder is my email header is ISO-8859-1 compliant as is requested by gmail or my messages are formatted according to RFC 5322 as it is required!?

However, I have checked my email by various tools including:

1- www.brandonchecketts.com/emailtest.php
2- mail-tester.com (my email score: 10/10)
3- toolbox.googleapps.com ----> /apps/messageheader/analyzeheader

and all of them are ok and I can't get it right why my emails are categorised as spam?

By the way, I am not a bulk sender, my ip is clean (not in any of blacklists) and I have just started to configure my new VPS host.

I am confused a bit as it is obvious, Please guide me. Note: (I have changed email addresses and real IPs in the message header)

Here is the header:

Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: by 10.194.95.197 with SMTP id dm5csp291965wjb;
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 06:02:17 -0800 (PST)
X-Received: by 10.180.206.147 with SMTP id lo19mr5212607wic.32.1422626536876;
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 06:02:16 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from myemail.com (myemail.com. [97.195.90.210])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s3si20803914wjx.75.2015.01.30.06.02.16
for <[email protected]>
(version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128);
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 06:02:16 -0800 (PST)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 97.195.90.210 as permitted sender) client-ip=97.195.90.210;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
spf=pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 97.195.90.210 as permitted sender) [email protected];
dkim=pass [email protected]
Received: from webmail.myemail.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by myemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 0D4A122FAEF
for <[email protected]>; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 15:02:14 +0100 (CET)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=myemail.com;
s=default; t=1422626535;
bh=mg3gRDZT3ck+E3FdH2X4LLdsZ/+WeZuit/DVefJiJWc=;
h=Date:From:To:Subject;
b=NhJPZML/OvA/2LJbvqKxnV7AO3TeGPdDqwBI+iOceZk2bz2flsCun3AqJ4RPY8pqM
is+dlQWTFCmQ2T2He7cKU/nC28FmPY4cqwJgt6oSIW0bIWkh81JdzBZXoIDiBGGlkx
mkrpvKQ4vdFh2R7iIRmUJMJtAGWr7MGoS/J7sdi0=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII;
format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:32:14 +0330
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Hello
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
X-Sender: [email protected]
User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.0.0

Regards

Anonymous Coward Anonymous Coward · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-11T04:56:57

Since you've said that you've modified the header records, it's hard to determine a few things. However, the sending mail server seems to be webmail.domain.com --- Are the DNS records set to point to mail.domain.com or webmail.domain.com or both?

Since you've done the rest of the configuration: just enter a dmarc DNS record, it might increase your server's reputation. Speaking of reputation, if your email server only handles a few emails a day from a couple of users - then your reputation as a 'spammy' server can be greatly affected by a just a few unopened or manually spam marked messages. Also, I believe there's a time lag between when you setup a mail server and when it's reputation gets out of the 'default to spam' folder.

emails are sent to spam folder despite having DKIM and SPF set?

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