Hotmail marking emails as spam even after fixing SPF, DKIM, and DMARC

Praveen Benedict

• October 29, 2025 05:31

Hey everyone,

I’m running a WHM/cPanel server and recently spent some time fixing up my domain’s DNS setup — SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are all properly configured and passing validation.

I ran a test on MailTested, and you can see the result here

https://mailtested.com/report/mxg8b62e

 It gave an overall score of 7/10, which seems decent. However, Hotmail still sends all outgoing emails to spam, while Gmail and Yahoo deliver them normally.

Has anyone faced this issue before? Could it be related to Hotmail’s internal reputation system or some DNS caching issue?

Any ideas or suggestions would be really appreciated — I’ve been stuck on this for days.

 

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  SD14

  • October 29, 2025 05:55

  Solution should be fairly easy..

  Reset DKIM record value on cpanel

  Ensure DKIM value matches with your dns zone record

  Setup a dmarc record

  Wait 24 hours for propagation

  Send email from this cpanel server

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • October 29, 2025 13:30

  It looks like you also posted this to our Reddit, where you received some good feedback as well.

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