Questions tagged [email]
Method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients.
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Correctly set up DNS for sending email via Wordpress and SMTP
I've recently moved my website to a new server.
I've changed the DNS record to use the new server for the website but, I'm still using the old one as a mail server. So, basically, the DNS is set up ...
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Why do I get timeout when I check smtp.gmail.com? [on hold]
I frequently get time error when I check smtp.gmail.com. But I have no problem to ping it. Does anybody know what is wrong with smtp.gmail.com? Thanks.
$ msmtp --serverinfo --host=smtp.gmail.com --...
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Who is a reseller of OpenSRS Hosted Email? [closed]
Does anybody know a reseller of OpenSRS (Tucows)'s whitelabel Hosted Mail solution (https://opensrs.com/services/hosted-email/)? I would like to test their product before becoming a reseller and think ...
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Emails marked as spam [duplicate]
Emails from my forum are being marked as spam in Gmail and possibly other emails.
In particular Gmail is warning me that the email is not secured, and displays a "security: No encryption " warning ...
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My e-mails are blacklisted. Is it my fault or other people on same server?
I was using https://www.mail-tester.com to check if my email address was on any spam lists.
It came back with 3 positive results (against 25 of the most common).
Does this mean that people marked my ...
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DKIM fails in DMARC report but not when checked independantly
I've been getting DMARC reports for a new domain I setup saying that the DKIM check is failing. The emails don't get blocked because I haven't set it up to be quarantined or blocked yet.
If I check ...
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Suspicious newsletter subscriptions
Since the last few days I have been receiving more newsletter subscriptions than usual. The emails and frequency look suspicious. Like every hour or two. I tested one of the emails with cleantalk and ...
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Emails sent from outsourced app return host error when sent to same domain name they came from
I have a client who has Plesk Onyx and they gave me their credentials to check for issue they are having but cant seem to spot it.
I don't know Plesk version due that account I have doesn't have ...
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Setting up an email address that won't have delivery issues
I've been using my domain email address which goes through Gmail for years. Over the past year people have been telling when they reply it bounces back as blocked as spam. (I don't engage in spam in ...
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Standard or common way to secure a destination-email-address of a client-side contact-form
I have a website with a minimal, client-side HTML-CSS-JavaScript contact form but I desire to hide the destination email address of that form from the HTML source code so that form users would not be ...
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How can I stop a user from deleting emails? - Emails hosted on cPanel
Just wondering how can I stop a user from deleting emails on a mailbox that is being hosted on cPanel?
I have already created another mailbox that will auto-forward incoming emails - but I would like ...
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Impersonation in web contact forms [closed]
Many websites have contact us form usually requiring sender's name and email address. Now assume someone uses the contact form but fills in an email address (a valid address) which does not belong to ...
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How does Google domains resolve conflicting wildcard rules for email forwarding?
I am using Google Domains for my website. I also get a free email-forwarding facility. However, there is no documentation on how the wildcard entries are resolved.
For example:
I have the following ...
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Understanding email delay
We receive around 50+ emails from a bank that we work with. Sometimes, their emails are delayed by one day. We are trying to understand the issue and we are trying to fix it. We have put the domain to ...
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Can you use a custom subdomain with G Suite if it doesn't have anything hosted there?
I purchased a domain from Namecheap, say myname.example. I'm not hosting anything with this domain or or any of its subdomains. I want to create a G Suite account with the subdomain subdomain.myname....
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If a link to my site is sent by a visitor to their friend via email, is this counted as email traffic source in Google Analytics?
Let's say I have tracking set up on my website to capture traffic sources in GA.
If someone emails my site to a friend and they click on it, is this counted as an email source?
I know an email ...
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Best way to handle email address for use with domain registration?
I have registered a domain that I use exclusively for email. In addition to my main email address (foo@example.com), I have companyA@example.com, companyB@example.com, justforfriends@example.com, etc....
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Should I use two domains, or a main domain / subdomain for my app?
I've purchases 2 domains for my site:
mysite.app
mysite.to
I first thought to put everything related to marketing and blogging in mysite.to and the app itself (SPA / no SEO needed) to mysite.app
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cPanel email not working
I have a domain registered with Dynadot, and hosting on GoDaddy. I'm using cloudflare as a CDN and I've added CNAME records for 'mail' and 'email' but emails aren't coming through to the addresses on ...
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Make cPanel report the mailbox capacity over IMAP instead of the whole server capacity
I'm using cPanel on a shared hosting plan and I use RainLoop for my webmail access.
In RainLoop, the mailbox capacity is reported as the entire server's capacity, despite each mailbox having its own, ...
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Transferring contact form inquiries to an email account without an email server or an email forwarding service
I have a WordPress/Drupal/MediaWiki website with some all-default contact form.
I desire to transfer contact form inquiries to my email account (Gmail) without using an email server or an email ...
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Not able to send mails from Godaddy VPS server to Zoho
My VPS Linux server hired from Godaddy has 10+ domains hosted in it. None of them are able to send emails to Zoho hosted mails. Mails to other domains (Gmail, Live, Yahoo etc.) are working well and ...
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Exim in cPanel - spam spreading by “exim -bpc” command?
(Moved from ServerFault)
I found that server have low reputation on talosintelligence.
When I search through exim logs I found that in each minute there is run of exim process to counting queue.
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All checks pass - Mail still goes into spam [duplicate]
I got a self-hosted mail server using nethserver.
No matter what I do, the mail I send still goes into the unwanted mail on Gmail and Office365.
It's exclusively personal mail.
My IP nor my Domain ...
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How to get into the “non spam” territory as a new website/server?
Well we are just in the process of releasing a website live, first for a select few testers and soon (plan is around summer) for everyone.
Now everything is working, and I just started the last ...
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Moving domain/email from MS Exchange to GSuite
I currently have a domain hosted by a company and an exchange email server and users use MS Outlook. I want to change over the domain from the current company to Google Domains and have the email ...
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Can I measure the click through rate (CTR) of a link to a phone number embedded in an email or SMS?
I want to capture the CTR for the phone number provided in the mail that I send. Can I track that?
Somebody told me that we can only track CTR if there is a landing page on the CTA. Clicking on the ...
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Emails rejected: <IP address> listed as abusive but the listed IP address isn't for my SMTP server
I am using a shared host from JustHost.com that comes with an email service.
When sending an email to some email address using my address myname@mydomain.com, I got a message saying that my email was ...
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Google Search Console emailing “New Mobile Usability issue detected” but live test shows “Page is mobile friendly”
I have a site with 20,000 URLs per language. Each language is added as a separate property in Google Search Console. This month Google started emailing me about each of the properties due to "New ...
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Getting Gravatar to appear in email Inbox
I have created a Gravatar for my email address for my business website through the Gravatar Website (gravatar.com).
I have done some reading and understand that this gravatar should appear in peoples ...
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How to read FBL abuse reports?
I've configured Feedback Loop (FBL) abuse reports for newsletter on https://returnpath.com to track users, who mark my emails as "Spam" and unsubscribe them on my end. The problem is, I couldn't ...
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Heroku email server custom domain
I am hosting a webapp on heroku using the free plan. I have also bought a domain name from godaddy.com. My webapp and godaddy are linked through the cloudflare service in order to protect against DOS ...
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Best practices for weekly report emails with chart data as images
I am working on a project where I have an application that is generating a weekly report which is emailed to the user. The weekly report will contains various different charts. The charts are ...
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DNS MX Entry Problem - Wrong Mailserver is used
There is a clients domain, let's name it www.client-xyz.example, which was hosted with a web space package on a web host. I created a new homepage which is located on my server and I pointed the A-...
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I bought a domain namespace at AWS, can I setup an email addresses using this domain at AWS?
I bought a domain namespace at AWS and I'd like to know is it possible to setup an email address using this domain at AWS?
For example, let's say I bought boughtwebspace.exampleat AWS.
Is it ...
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email marked as spam even with DKIM, SPF and DMARC headers
I've configured a Postfix+Dovecot email server. I took care of SPF, DKIM, DMARC and added appropriate headers to the message. I haven't used the machine for 2 years, so it can't be blacklisted from ...
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Doesn't DMARC expose your email address?
G Suite states that one can add a DMARC record with an rua field to get reports about DMARC activity by email:
v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:youremail@example.com
But doesn't this basically ...
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Can Mailchimp handle repeat automations?
I'm trying to create a Mailchimp automation for a gated asset/lead magnet. The problem is repeat visitors. I have a simple automation set up for users who are already subscribed, and ask for the asset ...
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Why is my Mailchimp Welcome automation sending only one email and deleting subscriber data?
I have an automation workflow set up with two emails and a landing page, with a Welcome trigger. The first email links to the landing page. The landing page contains a form that has to be completed, ...
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How to include a link in email that opens an Android app if available, but opens the website if not?
In HTML code for an email is there a way to have a fallback URL when a primary URL cannot be handled?
For example:
Open app when using Android
Open website when clicking on it on a desktop
I know ...
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How to stop Google translation on a link?
I use Mailchimp for campaigns. They have a feature where a person that receives the email can click the email in a web browser and translate to another language. The issue is the links in the email ...
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Correct MX Configuration for Cloudflare
I've always assumed that if I use an external nameserver (like Cloudflare) for a domain, then my local WHM nameserver is completely bypassed for that domain. Is this correct?
I've always pointed MX ...
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Domain email forwarding for group discussions
I am using Hostinger for my website and domain.
With my previous webhost, I was able to send a mail to one account, for example group1@mydomain.example, and it would then automatically be forwarded ...
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Is email obfuscation still helpful in 2019? [closed]
Historically, even simple tricks would prevent mailto: links from being harvested by web crawlers, but I'm curious to know if modern bots are too advanced to be beaten. Is the effort to obfuscate ...
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Trying to add a mail server, mail.example.com redirects to different subdomain. How do I stop that?
I have an Apache web server that also runs my Gitlab server and now I'm trying to make it a mail server too. Various tutorials told me that I needed to start with adding some DNS entries and getting ...
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Why is google.com trying to send emails from my domain?
I pulled up a DMARC Analyzer report showing emails received on behalf of my domain:
In addition to my normal authorized (SPF+DKIM aligned) personal emails from the protonmail.ch domain, there are ...
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Email Private Server IP Address Characteristics - How does an email inbox from a “warmed” ip verses a “cold” ip
We send email blasts to aged lead lists so we need to use private email servers.
We recently acquired a new IP address, so we need to warm it up to ISPs so that it inboxes better.
That being said, ...
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Bluehost keeps a copy of forwarded emails
I've set up email forwarding successfully on Bluehost, but it appears they keep a copy of forwarded email. I was able to log in to webmail ("roundcube") and see all of them.
Is there any way to ...
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Spam emails from my domain
Do spam spoof emails pretending to be sent from your domain which SoftFail SPF verification hurt your domain's reputation with spam filters?
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It is harder for users to log on to my website when using gmails “+company” email address feature. How can I help them?
If you have a website and lots of people create his accounts with this format:
mail+mycompanysite@gmail.com
mail+companysite@gmail.com
mail+company_site@gmail.com
This issue is causing me several ...
