I have a simple SMTP service which sends mails to all my clients. Though all my clients from a particular organization receive my mail, only one individual mail bounces back.
PS : He receives mails from another email client on the same host.
I am unable to figure out if the error is on our side or just the email settings of that particular user.
The error on the bounced mail is:
553:Sender is on user denylist
I Want to be sure before replying to client that the error is on his/her email settings.
Yes, that appears to be a specific block rule on the recipient side.
It looks like they are using McAfee Email Protection. The user or admin will probably need to adjust some settings. According to this page the intended recipient can follow these instructions:
To manage user’s block list navigate to Account Management > Users >
double-click on user > Sender Deny.
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I am new to firebase and I am trying to handle firebase user authentication in React.js. I did manage to create users with email and passwords. But, now I would like to send the user an Email link to reset their password.
My code currently look like this.
// This line of code belongs to the top
import { auth } from '../firebaseConfig'
//This part goes under the React component
<p onClick={async () => {
try{
await sendPasswordResetEmail(auth, // My Email Id)
alert('Password reset link has been sent to your email')
}
catch(err){
alert(err)
}
}}
>Forgot your Password ?</p>
However, I do not get any error messages and I do get the alert message that says "Password reset link has been sent to your email." Unfortunately, I didn't receive any email. Note that I have given my own email id as the parameter for testing purposes.
firebaser here
Did you check your spam folder? We recently see a lot of the emails from Firebase Authentication ending up in the user's spam folder or being marked as spam in a system along the way. This is being tracked in this status message on the Firebase dashboard and in public issue #253291461.
To reduce the chances of the messages getting marked as spam, consider taking more control of the email delivery yourself.
As a first step, consider using a custom domain with your project. Email that comes from a custom domain has less chance of being marked as span.
As a second step, consider setting up your own SMTP server.) for delivering the email, so that the emails are not being delivered from Firebase's shared infrastructure anymore.
While these steps are more involved, they typically will drastically reduce the cases where the messages from Firebase Authentication are marked as spam.
Full Guide Based on Frank's Answer
Firstly create a new email account you can use to relay the Firebase emails through the SMTP server with. I personally chose Gmail, but I tested with Outlook and it also works.
You can now find an SMTP server host that will work for your scenario. If you're sending less than 1000 emails per month you can find free and reliable hosts. I chose SMTP2GO's free option.
Now you've found the SMTP host, add the email address you've chosen as a single sender email (note that if you do own a domain, you can alternatively use that to send emails).
Note that you will have to verify the email, usually by your host sending a link to the email's inbox. Make sure to check spam.
Once verified, navigate to where you host allows you to add SMTP Users and add a new user. This will allocate an SMTP username and password.
Navigate to the Firebase console, and choose the Authentication option from the sidebar (within the Build product category).
Go to Templates → SMTP Settings and enter the details of your SMTP server. The username and password fields are to be filled with the SMTP user login you created in the step above.
It is better to use TLS, but I believe SSL should work too but it is untested.
Click save, and you're all set up - but there may still be steps to perform depending on your email provider.
Provider Specific Steps
If the emails are being sent to an account managed by Google you will have no issues with your emails being quarantined by anti-spam policies and it will work immediately.
If you are using Outlook, you will have a different problem on your hands. Outlook's built in defender will most likely have auto-quarantined your email under multiple policies - that bit is important.
These policies are likely to be both spam and phish policies. If you unblock one of them, the other will catch it and re-quarantine.
Unblock both policies for the email address, and test. You can see the status of quarantined messages in Microsoft 365 Defender app under Review → Quarantine. Please note that you will need to be an administrator to add global allow policies to your email accounts.
If this still doesn't work it is likely that your company has an additional external filter (as mine did), and you will have to add the IP's manually to the Tenant Allow/Block Lists spoofed senders tab.
I have opened a centralized mailbox that collects all the emails that come to my organization (for analysis).
This is done by a Transport Rule that i created which redirects all the email to this mailbox.
The problem is that when i tried to send it back to the original recipients with the EWS application it gives me this error:
ErrorSendAsDenied -
The user account which was used to submit this request does not have the right to send mail on behalf of the specified sending account., Cannot submit message.
This email was sent from outside of the organization so I guess i should grant the centrailzied mailbox SEND-AS permissions for the external email.
I have looked at the Add-ADPermission cmdlet here:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124403%28v=exchg.160%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
And tried to grant the mailbox permissions to "NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON" but it doesn't recognize it,
How can grant the permissions?
Thanks!
You won't be able to resend the message as the original sender unless you own that sender domain and that is an authoritative domain (eg you can then assign rights to send as the security principal that owns that email address). Otherwise what your doing is considered spoofing and will be disallowed in the client API's for security reasons. You also don't wan't to just resend a message like that anyway eg if it has external recipients and you just resent it to all the recipients it you will be sending another copy to those external recipients in that case (which will mostly likely then just get bounced for spf reasons). What you need to know is the envelope recipients of the original message and just resend to those recipients.
A few workarounds for this would be to use the replay directory on Transport server https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124230(v=exchg.150).aspx this would be the most common method as it allows you control the delivery via Xheaders (eg so you can restrict which recipients get the message your resending) and gives the most flexibility but requires file level access to the Transport Server. Other EWS methods would be to look at using Moderation instead and then release the approved the messages,
I am specifying "FROM" address usinf setFrom() method, But i still receive mails having "FROM" address of SMTP authentication mail id. and want to set the "FROM" address dynamically. which keeps changing. What is the RFC282 standard to achieve this.
The solution from google is this
Gmail lets you send messages with another of your email addresses listed as the sender instead of your Gmail address. This feature helps you manage multiple accounts from the Gmail interface; it works only if you already own the email account linked to the alternate address
Select the Accounts and Import tab (or Accounts tab, if you're using Google Apps).
Under Send mail as, click Add another email address.
In the 'Email address' field, enter your name and alternate email address.
Choose one of two options:
Use Gmail's servers to send your mail (this is easier to set up)
Use your other email provider's SMTP servers (we recommend this option for professional mail accounts or domains). Note for Google Apps users: Depending on your domain2 type, this feature may be disabled by default. Talk to your administrator if you have any questions.
If you choose to use Gmail's servers:
Click Next Step >> and then click Send Verification. Gmail will send a verification message to your other email address to confirm that you own it.
Open your other account and either click the link in the message Gmail sent or enter the confirmation code in the Accounts section of your Gmail settings.
For more info, follow the below link
https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=22370.
The overhead involved is that any new from address needs a alias to be set in Gamil authentication mail account. Its not suits for enterprise salable app.
Other solution is You can install a mail server (hmailServer). This server allows you to set the custom from address
If any body knows other solutions, please suggest me.
It's up to your mail server. Often mail servers will prevent you from using any From address other than your actual login name. This helps prevent spam. Depending on your mail server, there may be ways to convince it that you should be allowed to use other From addresses.
These are two different things that you are talking about:
The id that you are mentioning is part of smtp handshaking protocol which usually is mapped to "Return-path" field in mime-header.
Whereas the id that comes in "FROM" field which actually is displayed in mail-list is been appended by the mail server when u compose the mail.
So if you can modify the mime header then make sure that "FROM:" field contains the id that yuou want to set not the smtp authentication id.
btw its rfc822
Have worked for rediffmail technical team in order to develop and enhance smtp, pop and imap protocols
Its depends on your mail server and configuration setting
I am creating a site that requires admin approval before creating a user account. In Site Information settings I have set the site's e-mail address to "noreply#mysite.com"
New registrants request an account and they correctly get an e-mail From:noreply#mysite.com
No problems there.
However, the useful "Approve New User" e-mail also gets sent to "noreply#mysite.com" when I need it to go to "me#mysite.com." The noreply address is strictly a garbage address I will never check.
So, how do I set up a different email for the default "From:" address and the default system alert e-mail recipient address?
You can use Drupal's hook_mail_alter to intercept the email that gets sent to noreply#mysite.com send it to the desired email address. http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--hooks--core.php/function/hook_mail_alter/6
It's also possible to do this kind of customization using Triggers and Actions:
http://drupal.org/node/199254
http://drupal.org/documentation/modules/trigger
There is a module, User Registration Notification, that does what I needed. Keep the site e-mail "no-reply" and change the To: value in the module to "me".
User registration notification
I have a web app that only registered users can use, therefore I should have a valid e-mail address for the creator of the message.
One part of this web app will allow a user to create and send a e-mail message to an e-mail address that the user enters. My web server will be creating and sending the e-mail, however if there is a delivery problem with the e-mail I would like the bounce to go to the user's e-mail address instead of the server. This will allow the user to know that there was a problem delivering the message and they can take the appropriate action.
Would setting the "return-path" attribute to the user's e-mail address handle this?
As RFC2821 says:
The primary purpose of the Return-path is to designate the address to which messages indicating non-delivery or other mail system failures are to be sent. For this to be unambiguous, exactly one return path SHOULD be present when the message is delivered.
So yes, all standard compliant servers should account for the Return-path you set.
You could set up windows service on your server to periodically check BadMail folder and parse the bounced messages and resend them to the original sender. This solution would work in most cases. I don't think return-path would help in every instance (if it would at all), because different mail servers handle bounces differently.