Emails from my website are ending up in SPAM, how do I fix this?

By default, some content management systems such as Wordpress use sendmail, the server native email application, to send email.  This causes the email message to be sent from your VPS’s IP address, which can lead to blacklisting and email deliverability problems if the email recipients mark these messages as spam.

 

Maintaining your own IP reputation while using sendmail can be an uphill battle.

 

If you are having email deliverability issues, you can configure WordPress to send emails using SMTP authentication using a valid email account.

You can use a plugin such as this one to enable this functionality:  https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

You would install your plugin and then follow these instructions  so that the plugin sends your web site emails through a real email account.