I signed up with Google apps standard edition for one of my domain names say example.com. I setup the emails like contact#example.com - and using the Google Email client and loggin as user contact - if I send emails to users - they arrive in their inbox.
But when I send it through my php script running on my hosting account where I have registered the domain example.com - using the same email address contact#example.com - it ends up in the Spam folder - I've noticed this in both yahoo and gmail accounts
Any tips on how to prevent this from happening.
Thanks
Does the computer you are sending the email from have a reverse PTR record? Jeff has a great post up today detailing the necessity of having one.
Another option is to just use one of the cloud based email providers. Some suggestions:
http://postmarkapp.com
http://www.socketlabs.com
Also make sure that the IP address you are using for email hasn't been black listed: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx.
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I am using mailgun.com for occassional mass-mailings. Would it be possible to also use it for sending personal emails from me and my wife? The specific problem is that email errors (e.g. "Recipient not found on the server") are only available in the mailgun console and I'd like for them to be received as an error emails sent back to the sender (as is the case with "standard" personal email services). Is it possible to set this up at mailgun.com?
Alternatively, is there a cheap (or even free) SMTP server available for sending emails from the custom domain I own?
(Note that RECEIVING emails to our domain is not a problem, we have that solved using email redirection on my domain.)
Detailed explanation of our setup and reasoning: Behind the scenes, we are both using personail gmail accounts (e.g. me#gmail.com and wife#gmail.com) but we don't advertise these anywhere and our "public" email addresses are me#mydomain.com and wife#mydomain.com. Mydomain.com uses Cloudflare email redirection to redirect our incoming emails back to our Gmail inboxes. We used "Send mail as" GMail feature to send emails as "me#mydomain.com" and "wife#mydomain.com" through smtp.gmail.com but this solution requires us to have "Less secure apps" enabled on our Google accounts and Google seems to be phasing this solution out. The fact that our "real" Gmail addresses are visible in the email headers is not a problem for us.
Originally, we've used free "legacy" Google Workspace accounts on mydomain.com but those are now also being phased out by Google. So we are looking for a SMTP server.
Answering my own question:
I have found that smtp2go.com (which provides very similar services to mailgun.com) provides this option. Your SMTP account can be configured (in the "Advanced" tab) so that bounced email reports are delivered back to the sender's mailbox (or to different mailbox). Additionally, smtp2go's services are free if you send less than 1000 emails monthly so this seems like perfect solution to my problem.
Suppose I own an email 'demo#gmail.com'. Now, I create a new Microsoft account using my existing email. Thus I get another email 'demo#gmail.com', but this one is served by Microsoft.
So the situation is: one email and two providers.
If I send a hello email to 'demo#gmail.com' using my personal SMTP server, to which of the above will it send: will it send to the one hosted by Microsoft or the one hosted by Google?
How does it solve such an ambiguity? What are the factors that influence this?
This is a very common problem because many providers are giving us an option to create a new account using our existing email.
My observations:
I saw the emails inside the inboxes of both the services. I found that they had completely different emails.
There was no email which was common to both the inboxes. So there must be some mechanism to deal with it.
Let us look at the problem the other way round: If I had an email 'demo#outlook.com' initially and I created a new Google Account with this email address, then:
An email sent to this email address from another gmail account goes to the Google's server. An email sent to this email address from an Outlook also goes to the Google's servers.
There are two different ways of looking up an email. The 'normal' way:
You send an email to an server, in this example gmail.com.
Your mail delivery agent looks for mx record of gmail.comand send it to the ip-address of gmail.com.
If an email is delivered locally by the domain outlook.com it perhaps doesn't lookup the mx record, but lookups in a local database if the email-address exist there, and sends it to the ip-address of the outlook.com.
I think in the inbox of outlook.com are only microsoft emails.
More details can be found at https://www.socketlabs.com/blog/smtp-email-delivery/
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