I have a new site created and planning to host it on Netlify, I am thinking of creating a form to collect customer Testimonials from the site and email me on my company email address I have read that Netlify does not provide email service. Got inputs like using Zapier integration or free mail service like Zoho.
What other options do I have to make this work? Anyone using Netlify and got email forwarding activated?
You can consider using any SMTP email service and just send the email using PHP or any other code way.
For example here is how to send emails with PHP using Gmail SMTP.
https://pepipost.com/tutorials/send-an-email-via-gmail-smtp-server-using-php/
Or how to use the AWS SMTP and PHP.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/send-using-smtp-php.html
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I have a mac osx server at my office. I have only one email address configured on it because it's an email address outside my GSuite account. That email address was created for sending mails from a php script (I don't want to pay to Google for that email address because I don't need all of the Google Services on it). I configured PHP Mailer for sending mails using that email account.
It's connecting perfectly fine, authentication is correct, etc., but there is one problem: if I send mails to #mydomain.com it says that account doesn't exist, but it does exist, only that it is hosted on GSuite. If I send mails outside mydomain, it works fine.
Question is: how do I route those mails to look up for the correct MX récords? I mean, how to make those #mydomain.com emails reach the GSuite host?
You can have multiple MX records per domain. It is possible. They will use priorities. You can even have multiple email servers checking emails from each other.
However, you case with hosted emails this won't work. Google is not going to let you do this.
You will have to pay.
I have been trying to configure SMTP in order to send an confirmation email to email based self-registration users but each time an error message appear saying that
Tried to send you an email but failed!
this is my moodle email configurations
this is the error message I get when I run a test email
when searched the error I found that Moodle does not connect to email server.
is there any other configurations that I should check?
since this did not work I tried to connect through outlook.
I tried to configure outlook but it also failed.
this is the configuration for outlook
this is the error I get
please help..!!!
I'm not entirely sure what the problem is, we are using our own mailserver..
However, there are some restrictions to Gmail usage, which can require you to make some changes on your Gmail account.
Have a look at this to allow a new service access to your Gmail account:
https://www.lifewire.com/unlock-gmail-for-a-new-email-program-or-service-1171974
And here to allow your Gmail access to less secure services and programs:
https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps?pli=1
I have a client hosted with Godaddy and I am willing to change to Heroku.
I have tried installing Heroku Add-ons but that is not what I am looking for.
How can I create custom accounts for sending and receiving emails with a custom account (client#site.com)
I don't want to send mails via node.js nor PHP.
Thank you!
Heroku will only host your HTTP website. You need another provider for emails.
GSuite will give this to you for example.
By setting up your DNS records properly, you will then be able to tell your domain name to point to Heroku for HTTP requests, and to your emails provider for receiving those messages.
I have created an SES Account and I have verifed my domain - easy as the A record is already with AWS route53. I now need to send emails. Note: I have also created an smtp user account and have the keys.
Question - can I use any (lets say PHP as I like PHP) php script to send emails via SES?
I have found a couple of sites that appear to have scripts for SES like http://www.orderingdisorder.com/aws/ses/ but wanted to ask if now my domain is verified and I have user/keys etc is SES really just an SMTP gateway and I can use any (working) script to send emails via this interface?
thx
You can use their SMTP gateway or send emails via the AWS SDK for PHP programmatically. Just download the SDK, include it in your PHP file and you're good to go.
http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2011/12/13/amazon-simple-email-service-gets-simpler-with-smtp/
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSDKforPHP/latest/#i=AmazonSES
http://aws.amazon.com/sdkforphp/
I have a site, which has a server with "Parallels Plesk Panel" installed. I want to send an email from that site a "Contact Us" message to info#domain.com email.
The problem is that this email was already created by one of the programmers using the google mail system (apparently you can create accounts there with a domain name different from gmail.com).
So now, the server rejects my message, telling me that it can't find an email with this name. It works fine when I send to any other domain, but when sending to the same one, it fails. I've created another email info2#domain.com and sent emails there and it works.
My question now is, how do I send emails to the existent info#domain.com which is already created in gmail without making the server block me. One of the options I saw at this panel is to redirect the request for that email to another mailing system (and to specify its IP). Maybe that would help if I would to put there gmails IP?
Thanks.
EDIT:
Using my contact us form I am sending an email to info#domain.com. I get an SMTP error 550, can't find the mail box. When sending to anything but #domain.com it works. When adding that email to my server, it is also fine.
Now, the previous programmer already created info#domain.com, but not with our plesk panel, but using gmail server. Apparently, using gmail you can create an email of the type info#domain.com and not just info#gmail.com. The obvious problem is then that I try to send to this email. It sees that the server is domain.com and tries to find it there (same domain as the site from which I send the message). It fails and gives me the 550 error.
I want the server to send the email with that message to info#domain.com which is actually on gmail.
if I understand correctly, your problem is that two servers think they host the maildomain: your plesk server and gmail.
solution: disable local mail delivery for that domain on the plesk server and make sure plesk can correctly resolve the mx records of that domain , runing dig mx +short domain.com on the plesk server should return a google owned hostname, not the local hostname.
I don't own a plesk server, so I can't tell how how exactly to disable the mail domain, but a quick google search returns: http://www.serveridol.com/2011/03/16/disabling-email-service-for-a-domain-in-plesk/
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=email+form+service&ei=UTF-8&fr=chr-greentree_ff&type=827316
try a remote email form service. most hosting companies' mail servers are local. to do this, you would have to make your own .htaccess file which contains php.ini mail server settings. i THINK this is correct. you can install php yourself to see what those settings are.
this is something you will probably have to do through the web hosting control panel.
and by the way, XHTML is served up as HTML unless you configure the server to serve XHTML up as XHTML. so use HTML when possible unless you know how to do that. here's how.
http://jesusnjim.com/web-design/setup-test-server.html