I'm using WordPress 4.7.2 and the contact form doesn't send the email if the account of the person is from a Gmail or a Yahoo service.
I'm using WPForms and a default WordPress installation but when I send a message in a simple contact form: Name - Last Name - Email - Message, if I use the contact form as a user with a gmail account or a yahoo account the email is never send, for instance If I use joe#gmail.com the email is not send, but joe#gmai.com works or joe#whateveremailworks.com
Where to begin to look or what could it be the problem?
Greetings.
Dreamhost - Sharehost - WP 4.7.2
You might find useful to look for services that allow you to send transactional e-mails. Some offer a free plan.
Examples of these are Amazon SES and sparkpost, but there are a lot more. Both have free Wordpress plugins available to make the integration easy for you.
This is just to mention two. I'm not affiliated with them and there are a couple of alternatives.
Alternatively, you can configure sendmail in your server. Relaying in an external SMTP server not intended to send transactional e-mails can drive you to troubles like the ones you are having now.
Well, It looks like the problem is with the anti-spam politics of my hosting provider. Gmail and Yahoo present these spam-problems but you can't let those potential clients to go away, and using and external STMP service to send emails is not a way to go for my client. So after testing I found a workaround in WPForms.
The problem is the sender email? Well let's change that.
Go to the settings of the Form, then go to the Notifications settings and just change the FROM to and email of your host service and that will do the trick. The only down here is that you are not going to receive the email from your potential client so you can't reply directly, you need to start an email and then send it to the user, but over that all the emails and notifications work great without a third party paid service.
Hope this help to anybody. Greetings.
For me google stopped receiving e-mails from my own e-mail server (postfix, dovecot, mysql, postfixadmin) to force me to use tls
once i did that i also decreased my spam ability by adding spf, dkim and dmarc to my dns plus signing the e-mails by dkim.
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I have a VPS server running PLESK(12.5.30) and all of the WordPress forms we have that are supposed to send to people who fill out forms, are not being sent. They are just sitting in the mail queue as 'deferred'.
I think it has to do with php mail, but I can't seem to get this to work and my host is literally no help at all. I even called Plesk and they did not help.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
For more information you can check system mail log somewhere in in /var/logs/
Take in account that setting up working server of outbound mail is a real pain. In two words you need to setup SPF and DKIM or such mail services like Gmail will mark all emails from your server as spam by default.
In your case I can suggest to SendGrid service which has a WordPress plug-in https://wordpress.org/plugins/sendgrid-email-delivery-simplified/
(You need to register SendGrid account, it's free)
If your contact forms using default wp_mail() you mail will be send through SendGrid mail servers.
Also you can setup you Postfix/sendmail with using SendGrid's mail server: https://sendgrid.com/docs/Integrate/Mail_Servers/postfix.html
I have a Magento 1.7.0.2 store and I have a problem regarding the order confirmation email sent to customers. Actually, the owner of the store receives the order confirmation but the customer doesn't
Could someone explain or give me a clue about what is happening?
I have to mention that the email confirmation isn't disabled nor the Email communication is disabled
Thanks in advance
Which module are you using for e-mail ?
I would suggest https://github.com/aschroder/Magento-SMTP-Pro-Email-Extension
Also, after installing this, grab PHPStorm editor and install xdebug package on the server, and then debug the whole stuff =)
There could be many things preventing a customer from receiving an order confiromation email.
Make sure the server you are sending the email from (your Magento server) is setup with the correct SPF records. Many email providers will block emails coming from servers that are not authorized to send emails on the domain's behalf.
Also, check your servers email send logs. The send logs will tell you what happened to the email (whether it was sent, bounced back, or rejected). This is the best place to start for debugging email issues.
Lastly, you can try using a SMTP extension that allows Magento to send email using a valid SMTP login. I personally use and recommend SMTP Pro. This extension will also help you debug issues with your emails.
I am working on a bulk email class for a project and am using Amazon's SES smtp via phpmailer. I am trying to figure out a way to test sending multiple emails without getting blacklisted, spam blocked or blocked by the host. I would ideally like to test anywhere from 10,000 to 40,000 separate sendings. Ideally I would send test submissions to dummy addresses.
I know there are services such as http://tempinbox.com/
or
http://www.fakeinbox.com/
But what I would like is a reliable trusted service for testing bulk mailings without using my own personal email addresses.
Does anyone have any experience with this? If so, could you please point me in the right direction. Or let me know if this questions is better posted elsewhere. Thanks in advance.
Regards
If it was me I would setup a new domain (or use an existing one), and setup a catch-all account. That way you can send emails to test1#mydomain.com, test2#mydomain.com, test3#mydomain.com etc and you don't have to actually setup all those email accounts.
I actually do this with one of the domains I own, but more in the order of 200-300 separate accounts, not 40000.
All the emails will be directed into a single mailbox using this method.
Most likely, you are going to have to throttle the outgoing pace to 5/second if I remember correctly for AWS-SES (or AWS will do it for you and not gracefully).
Use a gmail address and the plus (+) sign after your email address with an extra identifier. For example, if your gmail account is
spamtester#gmail.com
send your test emails to
spamtester+1#gmail.com
spamtester+2#gmail.com
spamtester+3#gmail.com
...etc
They'll probably all end up in your spam folder, but you can whitelist them or just look in Spam to see them.
Brian
Reference: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-more-from-your.html
I am sure there are many of companies providing such services. The principle is, that your mail queue is going to the service company's main server, from where it is then distributed across many mail servers that company has in their cloud and from there it is being physically sent. That ensures your emails are delivered and servers that sent them are not blacklisted, because of the distribution. Unfortunately I do not have links, but sure uncle google will have some answers. Hope this helps a bit. Cheers.
I have an app where i'm sending emails on certain events, but when i used my gmail account, i never receive the emails and they are not in my spam folder. When i send them to my work email, i receive them instantaneously.
What do i need to do to get the emails through to google?
I'm using the standard codeigniter email configs (which i think uses sendmail).
I'm using google apps for business and i have the MX records setup that google provides.
Do i need anything else? Also, i'm using subdomains in my app, does that affect what i may need to setup?
EDIT
When i use smtp like this example Sending email with gmail smtp with codeigniter email library, the page never seems to come back. It eventually just timesout.
The only plausible explanation for this behaviour is a SPF Check failure. SPF or Sender Policy Framework is a new technology that allows easy detection of spam. Gmail honours SPF unless you manually mark those emails as not spam. Regardless of this, if you have received emails on another address then they must have reached Gmail too. Check your spam thoroughly, as Gmail does not discard emails even on very high spam suspicion rather they end up in the Spam folder.
You can set up a SPF that allows your webserver to send emails which will result in Gmail accepting emails sent by your webserver as authentic. See http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-set-up-and-create-sender-policy-framework-spf-domain-dns-txt-record-with-wizard/ and a wizard from Microsoft.
You will probably see, that at some point in the future, you'll get them all appearing in Gmail. Google is most likely seeing if the sender is spam, and holding those messages. I've experienced that before setting up dev servers. I would suggest using a transactional email service, like Mandrill or SendGrid. You'll find you get a lot of info from those services that you forgo if you simply send an email through PHP.
The Filter Theory The other possibility is that the poster has a filter set up on their GMail account that is filtering out the emails.
I would make sure that you are sending the required header information as well. Have you tried registering a new gmail account and sending it to that user?
I am running Joomla 1.5.15. After working on my site, I decided to test it with different email addresses to make sure that everyone would be able to register. There was no problem with hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc but I noticed that when I registered with my company email address, I did not receive any mail asking me to activate my account. The message on Joomla said that my account has been created and the activation has been sent but when I check my mail, I don’t see anything. I then decided to test with some other customized emails and I noticed that Joomla could not send mails to most of them.
I was just wondering whether it is a problem of Joomla’s mailing system or whether it is the server settings on the place where the email addresses are that is causing the problem. I spoke with the live support of my company’s website host and they told me I have to change certain things on my server before the mails could be delivered. I then went ahead and made those changes and the mails were delivered.
My problem was solved but then what of the other people (with customized emails) that would want to register on the site and do not know all these, does it mean that Joomla is not a good option for them or is there anything I could do to make Joomla send mails to everybody just like any of these mailing systems would.
If some people are receiving them and other's not, then I would suggest that it's a server issue. If you're sending out
name#domain.com
but the website is on
notdomain.com
then many servers will flag it as spam as the domain and the sender don't match, unless you use SMTP
Who is your email hosted with? If it's hosted on the server where you host the website then you should have a control panel to log into (e.g. cPanel, Plesk). You can add new email addresses under the options in there.
If you don't have email set up then I reccommend using Google Apps for your domain. You can have gMail, Google Docs, Google Calendar and all of the Google applications on your domain. For email you can have hello#mydomain.com.
I use Google Apps on all of my domains. It is easy to use and also if you have to move hosts, there is not need to change your email settings as they stay the same.
Heres the link for the Standard (free) edition of Google Apps
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html