I'm using a CMS to send emails when a form is submitted. Its configured to use smtp.mailgun.org:587 with the username postmaster#domain.com. I'm using Google Apps for my email, so in this case the email account I'm receiving emails at is support#domain.com. Customers fill out a form and enter their email address is used as the "from" address and the "to" address is support#domain.com. I don't see anything in my Junk folder in Gmail. Mailgun is getting all the emails and marking them as sent/received, but I simply am not getting the emails in Gmail, thus not getting support emails from my customers. What gives?
Issue was I had mxa.mailgun.org and mxb.mailgun.org added in my MX Records on my host (Linode). Removing those records fixed the issue.
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Trying to understand something thats not clear from AWS SES emails.
I have a simple emailer on my website that I have setup using nodemailer.
It has 3 fields
Name: name of user filling out form
email: email address of user filling out email.
Description: description filled out by user.
I'm seeing in AWS docs that I need to verify on their console the users email.
You can only send mail from verified email addresses and domains.
Note: This restriction applies even when your account isn't in the
sandbox.
This could be any number of different user email address how would I be able to verify them all I wouldn't know them.
What am I not getting here. I have verified the To: email which will always be the same as its coming to my domain email.
You'll want to send from an email address under your control (SES enforces this on a technical level, but spam filters tend to de facto enforce this everywhere due to things like SPF records) with a Reply-To header of the email address submitting the form.
We have a site on Google Cloud, let's call it 'main.co.uk'
and a subdomain site called 'forum'.
We are using Gmail business for main.co.uk emails, verified by MX records, SPF etc
Now what's confusing me is using mailgun for sending mail for 'forum'.
I know we can have multiple MX Records for main.co.uk but is there a good way to do this? do we set different priorities? Will we get issues with mailgun and Google trying to handle incoming mail?
Any advice would be great.
Using mailgun for sending emails does not involve MX records. Services like mailgun will use credentials for one of your email servers and will act like an email client program. Mailgun will authenticate and then upload email to the email server. There is also the option for programs like mailgun to act as an SMTP server for your domain (you can have more than one sending server).
Mailgun can also be configured as an email server for receiving email. However, you do not replace your existing email server, instead you create a subdomain that is then managed by mailgun. In this use case all incoming emails for that subdomain someone#mailgun.example.com are then processed by mailgun. This is similar to having multiple email accounts that you need to login into to read your email. The intent here is for mailgun to apply intelligence to the sending and processing of your email campaigns by managing email bounces, click throughs, etc.
MX records specify the mail server responsible for accepting email. You can have multiple MX records with different priorities but they are pointing to the same email system (collection of servers storing your inbox), not to different servers at different providers. For example, you would not have one MX record point to Gmail and another MX record pointing to Office 365 (or mailgun and Google). Multiple MX records support fault tolerance and failover, not multiple providers.
You can have an email server setup for main.co.uk and another email server setup for forum.main.co.uk but these are separate email server setups (I am ignoring email aliasing). You can have mailgun send email for someone#forum.main.co.uk with a return address anotherperson#main.co.uk. Normally you want to keep the sender address and return address the same so that SPAM filters don't kick in.
In summary, use mailgun to send emails from your website and / or email marketing campaigns and a normal email system (Office 365, Gmail, etc.) for everything else but have them setup as separate independent email systems.
I have a PHP application that sends emails through gmail. The emails are sent when website events occur, for example, the contact form. However, the emails are put in the spam folder of the recipient. Some recipients of this email are in gmail, and others are in outlook, and others are in yahoo.
Will the
name="neverSpam"
affect the sending of emails, so the recipients will not see it in the spam folder?
It seems this is happening because the recipient may not be a member of the sender's contact list, a security measure. Here's a note from Gmail Help:
If you find that some senders' messages are consistently being
mislabeled as spam, you can prevent this by:
'Adding their email addresses to your Contacts list. Gmail will
deliver messages from members of your Contacts list to your inbox,
unless we know with high confidence that they are spam'
neverSpam is a boolean for Filter Action Properties. If you want to make sure your message is not tagged as spam, add the recipients to your contacts list.
I'm using opencart 1.5.1.3. For some reason I can't send an email to the same account I am sending from. For example, I can't receive the notification email when an order is placed. The email reaches the customer OK and if I specify additional email address to send the mail to, they receive the email OK, the email configured as the store email addres doesn't receive the email. I'm using the 'mail' option to send email.
The email is hosted at google apps. Please help
some web hosting prevent self-to-self email for safety reason.
maybe it is your hosting provider block this mail.
I have a django app on heroku an using sendgrid.
I have gotten messages from a number of users with gmail email addresses saying that they have not received their validation emails after registering to use the site.
I tested it myself, and found that while emails with other addresses go through instantly, but for some gmail accounts it is not going through.
In the sendgrid dashboard, however, it says that all the emails have been delivered.
Can someone tell me what the issue here is? Is gmail blocking emails from my site? It just started happening these last two days. And we're not really sending out that many emails (10 or so a day)
Do the Emails end up in a spam folder, or do they truly disappear?
What kind of plan are you on at SendGrid? If you have your own dedicated IP, have you followed the guidelines on 'warming up' that IP address? Might also want to review the content of the message with SendGrid support, see if they can make any recommendations.
Emails end up in the spam folder. Whenever an email was sent from Heroku, Sendgrid to #gmail accounts, they were viewed as spam by Gmail.
I have the same problem and did not find a solution yet.