I have about 150 students next semester and I would like to provide each student with their own burner email address so that I can require them to subscribe to various websites. At the end of the semester, I'll delete all the accounts.
I found https://thehelm.com, but I'm looking for a free way to create burner email accounts.
I have a domain hosted on a VPS, but using smartermail would cost additional.
You can use your VPS to host an unlimited number of emails.
Register a domain name for your VPS.
Setup the appropriate MX records that point to your server.
Open port 25 to allow SMTP traffic and port 80 for web traffic.
Install an SMTP server: Postfix, Sendmail... See Comparison_of_mail_servers
Install a web server and a webmail client to provide a web interface for mail. I like squirrelmail. You could use pop3d or imapd if you prefer a local client.
The only limit to using this method is the storage limit on the VPS.
This is not free(5-30 dollars a year for the domain name + VPS costs), but you can host as many emails on it as space allows. As an educators bonus, you have the ability to monitor all email activity, as permitted within your acceptable use policy.
Do they need the emails themselves? Or do they just need to create an account? I'm just thinking that gmail has a functionality where you can postfix an email address with +(something) and sites will think it's a distinct email address, but gmail servers will acknowledge it as the same email.
For example if my email address were danny#gmail.com I could have the following email addresses:
danny+1#gmail.com
danny+2#gmail.com
danny+steve#gmail.com
etc.
These look like distinct emails for the purpose of creating accounts on websites, but all the emails from those 150 different accounts will end up in the same inbox. You can just share the login credentials for the 1 email address with all 150 students (or you could create 1 gmail per class of 30, 5 in total).
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I was trying to sign up for a new Gmail address and noticed that Gmail has an option in which you can use your custom email address without the need for having a GSuit paid membership.
Upon filling up the details, Gmail sends an OTP/code to the custom email and upon entering the right code the user can log in using that email.
How is it possible for Gmail to just get access to an email address without even the need for entering the password?
You are creating a google account. A Google account can be associated with any email id.
If you use a custom email id, you can use all the gsuite features like docs etc from that email id, but you cannot access your email via gmail.
To use gmail on a custom domain you have to pay ( change mx servers etc also )
This is done by using MX records.
Mail Exchange (MX) records are DNS records that are necessary for delivering email to your address.
In simple DNS terms, an MX record is used to tell the world which mail servers accept incoming mail for your domain and where emails sent to your domain should be routed to. If your MX records are not pointed to the correct location, you will not receive email.
MX records consist of two parts: the priority and the domain name. For example:
0 mail.EXAMPLE.com
The ‘0’ is the priority.
The lower the number means a higher priority.
The ‘mail.EXAMPLE.com’ is the mail server to which it connects. This is different - depending on what company is hosting your email.
Outgoing email servers connect to the MX servers in order of priority.
If you use more than one MX record and both have the same priority, it picks one at random. (This in effect load balances the connections.)
Your MX records are controlled at the company where your Nameservers are pointed.
Use MX records, provided by the G Suite Setup Wizard, to verify your domain (if you haven’t already verified it) and to set up Gmail as your professional email.
After you've switched to Google's MX records, you can receive your email in your Gmail inbox or through an email client like MS Outlook.
How it works
Keep setup instructions open and sign in to your domain host in another window or tab. Your host manages technical settings for your domain.
You’ll then update the MX record settings to direct your email to your G Suite account. It’s like registering a new address with the post office so that your mail gets delivered.
If you already use email with your domain (your email address ends with #yourdomain.com), you’ll start receiving messages in Gmail instead of with your old email provider.
Read more here https://support.google.com/a/answer/140034?hl=en
I have a small problem with a domain and that is that emails arrive to Spam and that the domain is new. I have checked the reputation of that domain and it has nothing out of the ordinary.
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I purchased a CLOUD VPS that runs CLOUDLINUX with static ips in a different provider than the one I acquired the domain. and I use WHM to manage my accounts. the emails are sent correctly, but they reach me in the SPAM tray. as additional information I just tried to send an email from the webmail tool offered by CPANEL from my account, and from here if they reach me in the inbox, but if I send from any email client like: (Outlook, Thunderbird) always I get to SPAM.
What could be the problem ?, Where should I start to review? Any help or collaboration is appreciated.
Check if your server's IP is listed in any RBL
This is a good tool for consult in multiples RBL: http://www.anti-abuse.org/multi-rbl-check
See if your reverse DNS or PTR is properly configured
In your apllication always send email by authenticating with SMTP.
I spent weeks on researching the net on wich solution should I use in order to correctly send emails from my websites hosted on shared hosting accounts, but the more I read - the more confused I get.
So this is my situation!
I have among others, an ecommerce website built on OpenCart, on a shared hosting account and a few email addresses in cPanel, like sales#mydomain.com, newsletter#mydomain.com, contact#mydomain.com, etc. These email accounts are also accessible via roundCube by the user at email.mydomain.com and via IMAP\SMTP on their email clients like Thunderbird.
The website has these email addresses set up and it uses (at leas Opencart does) php mail() to send emails for events (new order, contact, quote, etc).
Since last year or so, providers like Yahoo keeps banning the server's IP address and emails get bounced back with failure messages, Gmail recipients get them in Spam folder, etc. I almost monthly ask my hosting provider to change IP address, ask Yahoo or spam services to unblock the IP address, do tests, etc and I don't even have a large number of emails going, like 100 per month, most of them are Ask for a quote wich are plain text messages.
In other words, it isn't working.
What I am looking for what solution should I use to send emails from websites hosted on shared accounts, that is transactional emails and newsletter emails without upsetting Yahoo,Google,etc. subdomains? external smtp service? configure email accounts in a specific way? What do you guys use ?
If you are able to add extensions to Opencart on your shared host, you may want to consider adding the phpmailer extension (http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=3932). This will enable you to send all outgoing mail from Opencart via phpmailer, which can be setup to send mail through a remote SMTP relay (such as smtp.gmail.com, sendgrid, or some other remote SMTP relay). A reputable remote SMTP relay will probably be less likely to be blacklisted than your host's SMTP relay that the php mail() command is currently using.
Here's my current setup
Domain hosted at godaddy.com - I point my dns to dns.he.net nameservers
DNS hosted at dns.he.net - I point my A record to my server IP
Email hotsted on google apps - I point my MX record to Google Apps
Site hosted on apache server with a cpanel type thing.
All of my email accounts are on google apps. We have about 40 emails on there, and we want to keep google apps, it makes our life easier.
The problem:
Google Apps only allows 500 sent emails a day via one account (yes you can send 2000 if we upgrade, but that's 40*$5 per month and that's too $$ much for email.
My website keeps hitting the 500 email send limit a day for our sales#mysite.com email. I need to push that one email account to my server and use my server to send the emails from there, since there is no sending limit on that.
My Question:
How can I keep google apps for all of my email accounts except one, and how do I forward just that 1 email address to route though my server to send and receive emails?
Other email services like SendGrid, Mandrill (Mailchimp), Mailgun, etc. aside, you can use Groups and have a higher limit. See this.
Group provisioning and maintenance can be done with tools like GAM
I have a dedicated Linux web server where my website is running like www.example.com.
Now I want to start another service for my users and want to give mailing features like Gmail and Yahoo mail.
I want to give facility to my users to create email IDs as they create on Gmail or Yahoo Mail and use it as their email address like XYZ#example.com or ABC#example.com.
Is this possible for me to use my dedicated web server as mail server too,
or I need to hire a new specific mail server for this purpose.
Also, if I can use my server as mail server and can give IMAP and POP like features then what are the PROs and CONs in that?
My hosting company says that I have facility to create unlimited email addresses
and I have created a few for mt like support#example.com and feedback#example.com
and I am getting emails on these IDs.
Is that mean, my hosting already have setup a mail server for me (the same I mentioned in my question and want to setup)
Or this is just for me to use and manage my website and I can not share these email addresses with my users by giving an email service.
Yes you can run simultaneously a web and mail server. Follow part 3 of this guide: http://mysql-apache-php.com/ to set up email. Just make sure that your router is fully capable (supports NAT etc.) - it should be able anyway
However it does appear from your question that your hosting company has set up its own mail server. Which does mean unlimited emails, however the only issue could be the amount of space they are willing to host for you (As in you can only have 2 GB of space on their mail server). Hope this helps.