Contact Form 7 Email Seen as Junk Mail or Clutter by Office 365

Modified on Wed, 22 Nov, 2017 at 11:36 AM

To cancel Contact Form 7 emails from being seen as junk or clutter by Office 365:


OFFICE365

Go into your Office 365 admin area and create a shared Group mailbox called 'noreply'. No members need to be associated with this phantom mailbox, but you do want to forward all mail to the primary licensed mailbox.


CPANEL

From the hosting account's cpanel interface, create a mailbox called 'whatever'


WORDPRESS

Install the Mail Bank plugin and activate. Enter 'localhost', port 587, and the new mailbox credentials. No encryption necessary since this is all being transacted on the server (we're told.) Test. It doesn't matter that the host record isn't pointing at this local mailbox. This mailbox is for sending from the server only.


REGISTRAR

At your domain registrar, edit your SPF entry in the host record to include your IP address. For example:


v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com ip4:209.59.148.184 -all


WAIT AND TEST

At this point, there may be some propagation delay while you wait for the SPF record to update.


In Office365, make sure to move any test emails from Clutter or Junk Mail to the Inbox.


This should solve the problem!

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