I cant seem to get AWS emails working. I have set up thunderbird to handle the outgoing emails (SMTP) and have set the incoming emails up to be put in a s3 Bucket. The reciving part works well, however I seem to be only able to send to those emails that I have "verified." What could the cause of this be?
Also if anyone had any tips on how to set up my email better I would also be interested. Ideally I would like to be able to send and recieve domain emails via gmail / or another web based service. I have heard AWS has something called workmail, but really I am looking for somthing free. Had this set up, it was working nicely, but seemed to stop working, and I cant seem to fix it: (tells me the MX records are not configured correctly, but I did have it working, the MX records are the same as what they were when it was working)
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I have an issue where I have a custom domain set up with gmail, I have all DNS pointing to the correct location as defined in the google documentation (4 hours is the smallest TTL my DNS allows me to assign):
I have already set up gmail in google admin, and that all seems correct to me.
The weird thing is that if I send email from the account admin#mycustomdomain.com I can send it and the recipient will receive it.
However if they try to respond, they get an error from Mail Delivery Subsystem saying that it is not delivered, and it never appears in the admin#mycustomdomain.com email address.
Does anyone know what I'm missing? I've made sure that there are no extra MX records that could be messing this up in my DNS as well. I have been googling around about it but I am not finding anything I haven't tried already and am not sure how to debug this.
I am hosting the email for one of my domains at Gmail. I then run an IMAP client on my local computer to read and send email. Totally standard.
I now want to move the hosting for that domain to another email provider, where I will again run an IMAP client to deal with the mail.
Question: What happens to all the messages that are currently on Gmail? I THINK that they will stay in place, and I'll be able to access them via gmail.com and/or a Gmail app. But maybe not? Maybe Gmail will somehow find out about the MX change and decide that it should delete them all, because Reasons. Or it can't find the messages on its own server because the MX has changed, and so won't let me see them. Or something. In any case, losing access to these old messages would be Very Bad.
So, which is it? Will the world behave the way that I'm 99% sure that it will, such that I'll still be able to go to gmail.com and read the old messages after the switch? Or do I need to move the old messages somewhere else before making the hosting switch? Thanks for helping with my paranoia!
Google doesn't care what domain you use to route emails towards your Gmail inbox. If you change your domain to use another email provider, you will still have your existing Gmail inbox, until you shut down your Gmail account. So any existing emails in your Gmail inbox will be left untouched.
The same goes for any other hosting provider.
Okay, so this is a really weird issue that's really just confusing the crap out of me...
I have a number ColdFusion sites running on the same dedicated server and have been noticing some really strange issues with mail sent from some sites using the <cfmail> tag.
Here is an example of a mail tag being used with a form on one of the websites:
<cfmail to="#cfmail.clientEmail#" from="#form.email# <#form.email#>" replyto="#form.email#" server="#cfmail.server#" username="#cfmail.username#" password="#cfmail.password#" subject="Request for info - #form.propertyName#" type="HTML" port="#cfmail.port#" useSSL="#cfmail.useSSL#">
(All of the cfmail scoped vars are being set in the Application file)
I do it this way so that the individual sites are not all using the in-house mail server, and instead use their own Google Apps account (DNS is set up properly).
Form submits, email sends, email is delivered...no problem, right?
Well...that's when things get funky.
Notice the FROM looks like this in the code:
from="#form.email# <#form.email#>
When delivered, it looks like this:
FROM : bob#someaddress.com <info#somerandomdomain.com>
When it SHOULD look like this:
FROM : bob#someaddress.com <bob#someaddress.com>
So, I checked - and re-checked the code. Everything is correct. Then, I checked the ColdFusion mail spooler...the text file generated there before the email actually leaves the server is CORRECT.
This leads me to believe that something is happening after the actual data reaches the google servers - somehow the email addresses are getting swapped out.
If it's any help, the mixed up from addresses are always email addresses that were set up a long time ago and then closed/abandoned for other sites I host on the same server.
And, another bit of funkyness to add...
This is happening to the TO addresses in some cases as well. Meaning, emails sent from different sites on the same server (using different Google Apps accounts and credentials) are ending up in the correct inbox AND other, unrelated, sites inboxes as well.
I've determined that the emails are correct as they leave the building on their way to Google (via the ColdFusion mail spooler) - but things seem to go all wonky after that.
Does anyone have any advice on this? The solution I've decided on for now is to move the clients to new mail providers...but this is not an ideal solution because of all the hassle involved in migrating their email over.
Having problems with setting up my website to use MS Exchange to send emails. I dont want to use the hosts email system.
The MS Exhange has been set up, with email addresses created.
My webpages are using Persits.MailSender which the host supports.
Do i need to change MX records? A records?
Sorry, im not clued up with network side of things, any help would be appreciated
When i email direct, the email address on the exchange picks up the emails. BUT if i email through the website, it goes to the annoying webmail the host is provinding, and not to the exchange
I find this strange, the same email address receiving emails at different places!
Im using ASP, and I have a website set up, which has been sending emails for the last 12 months, the host has messed up (again) somewhere, but doesnt know what is wrong (as usual)
There are no errors, the email always gets sent.... but to the wrong place.
I would look into actually trapping and knowing your errors. That way you can see precisely why it fails and have something to work with. As it stands, your question isn't really answerable. No language nor framework is provided. We don't know if the mail server is confirmed to be working or accessible outside your netowrk; we don't know how your are referencing it or if you are passing user credentials; we don't know what error you're getting...
At this point, you're not debugging, you're just sort of swinging in the dark. Find the point of failure and then research that data point to get a solution. Debug, catch errors, log, step through your code. All good ideas.
Ok i figured it out, I deleted the mail domain on the host as that was the first place the website looks to send an email. Once the mail domain was deleted the emails were sent to the external hosted mailserver MS Exchange email address. Yay!
I have a domain, call it mydom.com.
A while ago I started using Google App's email server. I set up MX and the rest of the stuff records as Google wanted, and all is working well since.
On www.mydom.com I have a website, DNS and still running mail server (which basically doesn't do much).
Among other things, on www.mydom.com, I have some contact form - basic php page that takes user's input and sends it to predefined email address at mydom.com. It sends it with php's sendmail function.
My issue is - all those email that get sent from localhost to *#mydom.com (by php's function, or possible by some cron jobs reporting some issues) DO NOT go to Google's email servers but instead get picked up by localhost and it's mail server.
So far, I was resolving this issue by setting up a new mail account at Google account, which was basically calling my local mail server by it's IP address, logging into old, abandoned email account and pulling those misplaced emails to the new, #mydom.com account at Google App.
Obviously I'm missing some entry either in local DNS, host file or something..
Does anyone know how do I fix it?
Hey, the same question was asked here: https://serverfault.com/questions/102647/sendmail-to-local-domain-ignoring-mx-records-part-2
and the answer to it works for me, don't forget to include the dot after the domain!
If it doesn't work to the test call and see how the mail traces.
best of luck, svullo