The scenario goes like this:
Email setup for outgoing mail server has been done with email address like help#companydomain.com(example) and configured it.
Under General settings, I have used alias domain as companydomain.com. Also I have set email aliases for each user.
Now any user has set his email as help#companydomain.com can send mails and add followers(Add followers will drop a mail to followers) and the mails are received to any email client like thunderbird .
But when other users send mail, it does not deliver to email client like thunderbird and outlook.
Pretty much confused on how to configure the outgoing email gateway server in odoo. Any suggestions would really be helpful.
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To learn about email and SMTP, I wrote a basic SMTP client using sockets to push an email to my outlook account, following an example from a textbook.
I ran into a hiccup though, when the outlook mail server required me to authenticate before I could send the email. After researching the issue, I learned this is to prevent mass email spam and sender spoofing, which makes sense. I resolved this by authenticating using my outlook email and sending the email to myself.
My follow up questions that I'm having trouble finding an answer to are:
If a different mail server, such as google, needs to push an email to my outlook inbox, how does it authenticate? Does the google mail server have an account with outlook?
Is it not possible to just send mail between any two mail servers? Do the mail server admins need to white list other email servers first?
Found my answer here: How to send a mail directly to SMTP server without authentication?
Turns out, I was not connecting to an external SMTP server for outlook, but rather a server for users to perform actions with their outlook account specifically.
All I have is an email client (emClient) and a working sendgrid account. When prompted to enter an email address, I can happily put anything#mydomain.com and it will confirm that it works with SMTP. I can also send emails using this client. I authenticate with the username apikey and my api key.
However, these emails are permanently stuck in the "outbox" and are constantly sent over and over again, presumably because the client has no confirmation that they were sent. When trying to set up a new account under this domain, I setup my "incoming server" as smtp.sendgrid.net and provide my credentials and it sort-of works (after prompting me for my authentication?).
As you can see, SMTP authenticates just fine and this makes sense as I am seemingly able to send email. However, both IMAP and POP3 when I select them in the "incoming server" are stuck on this "testing" stage until they fail.
Now, if we skip ahead to me sending something out - basically, it works. I receive the email on the destination, it does not get marked as spam and it comes from my domain and my name.
However, when I attempt to receive an email on the anything#mydomain.com one, it just doesn't do anything. I don't get an error from gmail that it wasn't delivered, it simply just doesn't get delivered.
For my domain settings, I have the following configured:
Twilio SendGrid developer evangelist here.
While SendGrid allows you to send emails over SMTP or via the API, SendGrid is not a full mailbox that you can connect to over POP3 or IMAP. You cannot connect to SendGrid using an email client, that is not what it is intended for. SendGrid is not a mailbox, but a way to programmatically send and receive emails and other email based events.
The way to receive incoming emails is via the inbound parse webhook. When you have set that up, incoming emails to your configured domain will cause a webhook, an HTTP request, to be sent to a URL you configured, with all the information about the email.
I host a mail server, where users log in via SMTP to send email.
The current config of postfix allows every authenticated user to send emails with any sender address.
My objective is to prevent users sending mail with an other FROM: address than the sender’s own SMTP login name.
For example: if you log in with the username bob, you’re only allowed to send emails with the sender address bob#example.com.
smtpd_sender_restrictions could be a solution, but this would reject clients, who entered any other address.
A more elegant way would be to automatically rewrite all from addresses to the username they logged in with. That's, what I'm trying to achieve.
Just like Gmail, if you use it as an SMTP service to send emails, the messages are sent with the address you logged in to Gmail.
Currently the SMTP authentication is done by dovecot:
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
The server itself is really simple, no fancy custom per-user based stuff or multi-domain setup, just users SMTPing in, and sending emails. :-)
I know that smtp_generic_maps and sender_canonical_maps exist, but I coudn't find the way to automatically rewrite the senders address.
By automatically I mean not one-by-one in a separate file.
Thank you for your help!
I am using the Mandrill mail server for sending emails to users and I have my own domain added to Mandrill to send out mails. Suppose I have configured Mandrill to use info#mydomain.com to send out emails and then it should send emails which it does. And any replies sent to info#mydomain.com will be forwarded to traditional mailboxes.
Now I have a doubt on receiving emails via Mandrill, once I add an inbound domain and route its path to my desired location, it should be ready to receive emails. Well I have read questions on SO and it has been said that if someone wants to use traditional mailboxes for receiving mails then it's better not to use Mandrill or use a custom sub domain.
Also it has been said that it is not possible for Mandrill to receive email which is already configured or forwarded to some other traditional mailboxes.
So I added a sub domain to Mandrill's inbound domain like inbound.mydomain.com and receive emails on this domain which will be received by Mandrill and will be send to the desired route which we set up. Now I will have to change my sender domain with the same that is inbound.mydomain.com to make users reply to this domain which will be received at Mandrill. What I want is :
Send emails using info#mydomain.com
Receive emails to my location using inbound domains
My host has Sendmail() disabled. I'm basically looking for a way to bypass this. I want visitors to be able to send me (gmail account) an email where they first fill in their e-mail address, so they become the sender. It's for support questions and remarks.
If there is no way to bypass this, is there and alternative, perhaps using mailchimp..?
You can always use an alternative public send mail servers available. You can use one of them. Here is one Public Send Mail server list
use phpmailer library. you can send email via connecting smtp (works with gmail too.) 1st configure one of your accounts with phpmailer. when the user fills in their email set the sender as user's email.
even though you are actually sending the email through your account to receiver of the email will show as sent by user's email address.
http://phpmailer.worxware.com/