Questions tagged [email]
Method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients.
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How can I send emails linking to an anonymous website without them being classified as spam?
I’ve been trying to set up an anonymous website so I can blog my thoughts on some controversial topics without them being traced back to me. I found a post on here that perfectly fit my situation: How ...
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Pointed my domain to new address, cannot now send or receive emails
I recently updated mydomain.com A record to point to a new ip and www.mydomain.com CNAME to a new address and now I can't send or receive emails. I have the mail.mydomain.com record still pointing to ...
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Does being blacklisted by Spam Cannibal effects SEO
I have checked old post regarding being blocked by email spam agents and it states that SEO shouldn't be effected.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/msag60JAWBc
I am ...
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How do web sites implement the handling of many email boxes on their domain? [closed]
I apologize if this is off topic, but I just can't figure out how sites like https://www.guerrillamail.com/ and http://www.throwawaymail.com/ implement so many email boxes in their domains?
The ...
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DNS Help - Point Web Requests to Web Host without affecting Existing Email Settings
I have registered a domain name (let's call it example.com.au) through GoDaddy and have an active email account using the gmail servers ([email protected]). The gmail setup process automatically set ...
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Will changing my newsletter's from email address to another on the same domain affect deliverability?
I have a fairly large newsletter that goes out daily. I setup the newsletter originally to send from [email protected] (an inbox I actively use); it has been sending from that email for almost two years ...
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Email during domain transfer
My company currently has their domain registered with one company and webhosting with another and they want to move the domain to the same company as the web hosting. It is understood that it will ...
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CAN-SPAM and transactional emails without legitimate physical address (for foreign webmaster)
Situation
I am a very small time web developer working on a personal web project. This website will be sending only two types of emails, a email validation email and a forgot password email.
I do ...
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Export emails from Open-Xchange webmail and import them to Horde webmail
I'm moving hosting and need to move the emails stored with the old domain and hosting. The hosting I want to transfer from uses Open-Xchange for its webmail and the hosting I want to move to uses ...
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Gmail SMTP server: different password from the one used by the owner?
Im going to use a Gmail email address as an SMTP server. So I need the email password. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-google-s-smtp-server
The problem: my customer doesn'...
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How to easily delete all email forwarders in cPanel?
I know that I can import a list of email forwarders using CPanel, but how can I delete a list? I want to manage 300+ addresses - as a membership list for my organization. I want to be able to delete ...
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I bought a domain from Arvixe without hosting, how can I set up email?
I bought a domain from Arvixe, without any hosting plan. In the domain settings, I didn't find anywhere to set up email accounts. Do I have to buy their hosting plan to have email accounts?
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How do I migrate mail from one shared hosting account to another?
My web-host suddenly decide to merge with another company and that move has left me in the lurch.
I have two weeks till I can migrate my mail data over to another account. The only way that I can ...
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Does it really help against spam to replace the "@" with "(at)" and similar practices?
When e-mail addresses are mentioned on the web, I see a lot of:
send (dot) me (at) spam (dot) com
send . me (a) spam . com
etc.
Does it really help againt spambots finding the addresses to do these ...
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How to set the "from" sender in WHM or how to prevent the server from overwriting it?
I am using wordpress. Wordpress has its own mail function called wp_mail(), which is very similar to the php mail() function.
The wp_mail function allows you to pass headers, such as the "From" field....
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How to change the hosting company and keep the email messages?
We aren't pleased with our current shared hosting account and we will change our hosting company to AWS (if this matter). The main problem which I see now is that we have two email accounts (let's say ...
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VestaCP Exim is not sending emails
Recently i did VestaCP install on a new server of my own, and then, created two users and uploaded site&database content to it, and so, everything was working normally, except for one thing, that ...
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No MX records?! Zone file issue. Shopfiy vs. self-hosted email
One of my hosting clients has a website: www.vincedevito.ca.
Some time ago, he decided to use Shopify as his primary website, but I still host his email.
Therefore, I set up a DNS Zone with GoDaddy.
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Email-prevalent domain, .xyz vs .email
Last month I got a .email domain with plans to become my primary email address, I like it because that gTLD clearly states the purpose, but after a month long test I have some doubts.
Lots of email ...
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Send out newsletter to 60.000 people where mail addresses can be wrong already
I hope webmasters is the right place to ask this kind of question.
I have a website with about 60.000 people signed up. This site wasn't quite active in the last couple of years. That's why I ...
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How to prevent common spam on a WordPress blog [duplicate]
Right from the day I installed WordPress on my site, I started getting spam comments/trackbacks. I have also prevented anonymous comments. I get the following email whenever a new spam is posted:
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How to implement a software trial request form?
On my company's website I want to have a form where a visitor can provide an email address and pass an anti-bot challenge. The server would then email a trial key to the visitor.
Background: I am ...
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Forward .NET emails to corresponding .COM email accounts
Domain.NET is hosted at Network Solutions (no comments, please; not my choice) and domain.COM is hosted at Blue Host (same). Email accounts at .NET have been used for years; email accounts at .COM ...
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Identifying the file sending out spam email
I'm trying to identify the cause of spam emails being spent out from one of my clients wordpress websites. while I can identify the folder i can't identify the file.
I've added the following to the ...
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Why do bots search for / fill and send contact forms?
I'm a bit confused as to why people make bots to do this - is it to find vulnerabilities?
I recently upgraded my contact form security with more client and server side validation, including a ...
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How to totally block inbound mail on cPanel / WHM?
Is it possible to completely block inbound email on WHM / cPanel (without blocking sendmail / PHPMail from working)? If so, what config steps are required?
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Keep email with registrar but host website elsewhere
I am currently building a website for a client who purchased their own domain and email on Godaddy. They have been using the email for a considerable amount of time now and only recently decided to ...
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Spam being sent from my domain
I have a suspicion that somebody is sending spam from my domain. Today I received an email from postmaster(AT)halliburton.com to htuwxjw(AT)example.com which said:
The following email was blocked ...
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Where to place the SPF records and Google Apps DKIM on a multidomain website?
We're having issues with spam filters with our emails. They're not being received by our clients about half of the time. We decided to make sure the SPF and DKIM are correctly set.
Suppose I have a ...
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How long should email take to deliver? [closed]
I'm experiencing significant problems with the time it's taking to deliver signup emails. The signup process requires the user to verify their email address before they can use the site (it's ...
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Why should we prefer table over div when it comes to emailers?
When it comes to converting designed email templates to html format, how is a table layout better than a div? What are the exact reasons we tend to choose table over div for emailers?
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Tracking email traffic to Facebook in Google Analytics
My company is sending an email to our lead file with a link to a Facebook contest app. I know that ExactTarget (our marketing automation software) has the ability to track links, but we want to see in ...
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Emails sent via Amazon SES going to spam in Gmail [duplicate]
Firstly I have read this question How can I prevent my mail from being classified as spam? -- I'm verified on Amazon SES and have DKIM enabled.
I'm sending emails via Amazon SES - on Worpdress (using ...
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Hosting Email for domain on other hosting
I have a website (e.g: mydomain.com) hosted on squarespace.com and I want to setup email account on another dedicated server running Parallels Plesk CPanel. I have requested access to DNS of the ...
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Transferring Email to Google Apps - Timing
I did a site for a client a few months back. Hosting & email was setup through Dreamhost VPS. Hosting has not been an issue, but email has become increasingly dodgy. Long story short, they want to ...
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SPF, Domainkey, DKIM do not work in plesk 12
I followed tons of online tutorials, guides and even the post here about setting up SPF records in Plesk 11.
I'm using plesk 12 on Ubuntu 12. I have set the following:
*.webmail.gecab.nl. CNAME ...
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Emails from a VPS server usually go to spam folder? [duplicate]
I found that the emails sent from my VPS server usually go to the spam folder in popular email providers such as hotmail or gmail.
Is it because the VPS IP has been marked as a spam server? (Other ...
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How reliable is email tracking?
I hope that this question is reliable as I guess all webmasters send out emails of one sort of another.
I read a while back that gmail has started downloading all pictures attached to emails. As far ...
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NEED ADVICE: phpmailer / mandrill / server blacklisted
okay, so, here's the sitch...
i've got a website that utilizes phpmailer to send form submissions to email via Mandrill.
please understand that this has been working perfectly for many months, and ...
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Migrating just hosting (not e-mail or domain registration) from GoDaddy to DreamHost
I am attempting to migrate my domain hosting from GoDaddy to another service, as GoDaddy's servers seem to be painfully slow when handling interactive forms, PHP applications, WordPress, etc, even ...
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Why would you want to own just the MX rights to a website?
I acquired an existing small website not too long ago. When I went to register the domain on google apps, it turned out the domain was already registered and I would need to contact whoever had ...
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Who to contact when my server is on a Gmail blacklist?
I am facing an IP blacklist problem when sending email to Gmail the emails are flagged as SPAM.
The headers and the email body are following the Google guidelines and there is really no-reason why it ...
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Proper Campaign Tracking With Google Analytics
Let's say I have a link in an email newsletter like so: example.com&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pardot&utm_campaign=Autumn+Newsletter&utm_content=logo
I am able to go into Google ...
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What should the DNS settings be for my domain and mail server?
I am trying to configure my own mail server.
My domain name is: example.net
I've created a subdomain (a virtual host for Apache 2): mail.example.net
My hostname is: server01 (the name of the server ...
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How do I add an spf for a Postmark App sender signature when there's an existing spf record?
I'm using the Postmark App service ( https://postmarkapp.com/) to handle the transactional mail delivery for my web app and I set up a sender signature email address ( [email protected] ) for it ...
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Formatting pre-formatted text
I have a Unix Shell script which produces a plain text report. Horizontal alignment is achieved by inserting spaces so that the output appears to be in columns in the terminal.
Caption ...
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How Can I Use An Email Address From A Domain To Register The Same Domain
I want to register a domain called webmasters.com. Can I enter [email protected] as the contact email when filing for the domain name? The forseeable problem is that the email address has not yet ...
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Does using "Newsletter" in my email campaign name prevent Google Analytics from tracking that campaign?
I've had a successful email campaign series setup using Universal Analytics with the /collect img code for open rate, except there are two emails that are mysteriously not tracking.
Tracked opens ...
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How do I know my email open rate?
I saw some people saying their newsletter has X open-rate. How can I know this thing?
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Can email be hosted by a different company when the domain is registered with GoDaddy, and the site is hosted with Wix?
I registered a domain name with GoDaddy and I changed the DNS to point to my site on wix.com (my host).
I don't have email with GoDaddy or Wix, but I have a hosting account with RS Hosting (cPanel). ...