Which type of email sending has a greater degree of deliverability.
1. PhpMail Function
2. SendMail
3. SMTP with or without authentication
I do not understand the differences between these.
i have 2 options to configure my email marketing script - using smtp or mail().
we used to send all our email marketing from outlook, with decent results, and not many bounces.
we tested a new script that used our sendmail on our server, now we're finding people aren't the mail a day or so later, or some aren't getting it at all. we seem to be getting a lot of bounces too...
anyway, im starting a new site from scratch, and im just wondering which is the best method for sending out email marketing campaigns.
I have a dedicated linux server that has 16 IP addresses... and one of those IP address is the main (or shared) IP of the server. So I can host a ton of websites on that one shared IP, and can optionally move individual accounts to one of the 15 other dedicated IP's if I so desire.
I put an account on it's own dedicated IP and it works fine. But I've noticed all my email being sent out is being filtered into people's spam folders... be it hotmail, gmail, yahoo, outlook, etc. My DNS is setup great as far as I can tell (DNSreport confirms) and I have SPF/domainkeys installed for this one account... so I shouldn't have problems authenticating my emails.
The only thing I can think of that would be causing problems for my mail being filtered as spam, is that since this account is on one of my dedicated IP's... that these mail providers (yahoo, etc) are looking at the incoming connection claiming to be the host, which is the main (or shared) IP of the server, and then looking at the MX record for the domain that the email address is, which points to that dedicated IP... and since they don't match... the email provider rejects the email cause the two IP's aren't matching.
Is this a valid assumption? And if so, is there anything I can do about it besides moving that one account back to the shared IP? For the life of me I can't figure this out.
I have a dedicated linux server that has 16 IP addresses... and one of those IP address is the main (or shared) IP of the server. So I can host a ton of websites on that one shared IP, and can optionally move individual accounts to one of the 15 other dedicated IP's if I so desire.
I put an account on it's own dedicated IP and it works fine. But I've noticed all my email being sent out is being filtered into people's spam folders... be it hotmail, gmail, yahoo, outlook, etc. My DNS is setup great as far as I can tell (DNSreport confirms) and I have SPF/domainkeys installed for this one account... so I shouldn't have problems authenticating my emails.
The only thing I can think of that would be causing problems for my mail being filtered as spam, is that since this account is on one of my dedicated IP's... that these mail providers (yahoo, etc) are looking at the incoming connection claiming to be the host, which is the main (or shared) IP of the server, and then looking at the MX record for the domain that the email address is, which points to that dedicated IP... and since they don't match... the email provider rejects the email cause the two IP's aren't matching.
Is this a valid assumption? And if so, is there anything I can do about it besides moving that one account back to the shared IP? For the life of me I can't figure this out.
My sendmail.mc file has:
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TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,novrfy,noexpn,restrictqrun')dnl
define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl
Telnet output is:
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% telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost
Escape character is '^]'.
220 local.sendmail.ORG ESMTP Sendmail 8.10.0/8.10.0; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:48:44 -0700 (PDT)
ehlo localhost
250-local.sendmail.ORG Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-DSN
250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
250 HELP
quit
But users cannot send email using the server as outgoing mail server with
their user names and passwords.
It says:
Quote:
Relaying denied. Proper authentication required.
I have Cpanel, with the "Prevent Nobody from sending emails" in the WHM>Tweak Settings enabled.
I want to force sendmail to use SMPT auth.. so that all mails sent are sent via SMPT and an authenticated POP user.
I guess this will help in limiting the "The maximum each domain can send out per hour" setting.
Can i use Qmail or Sendmail or Postfix with WHM other than exim mail SMTP.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI am having problem with qmail. I have forum and users are not getting emails send via forum.
I don't care about receiving e-mails and I never do. All I want is for outgoing mail server to be working.
Any ideas how to troubleshoot? Also, I think qmail came as a default (preinstalled) on my server. Is there some other program I should rather use for my purposes? (Again, all I need is *outgoing* mail server). I am using CentOS.
Here is output of 'ps aux' command, related to mail services ....
suppose my domain is mydomain.com, my sendmail may send email to any domain name except local domain, say, sendmail may send email to hotmail, yahoo or any other domain name, but when send email to emailbox under mydomain.com, sendmail log will say domain not found.
My situation is my server does not have DNS service, my DNS service is outsourced, and MX record also is outsourced.
I am having difficulty sending data from completed form by email.
I have modified a Html_quickform from PHP Anthology which works fine on the server.
I also included & Instantiated phpmailer to send the recipient.all the info set out in the form when submitted.
The email also works fine,I receive the email ok.
However none of the completed fields show up in the body of the email message except for one field only,that is 'body' but not the completed field or 'when' or any multiple fields submitted.
I'e tried deleteing $form->getSubmitValue('body') from the Form
and sending $form->getSubmitValue('when');only
The 'when' field shows up in the email message.
It's either one or the other but not both together.
Do I need to set up an Array to collect all fields in a single $data variable?
// Add the body of the message
$mail->Body = $form->getSubmitValue('body');
$mail->Body = $form->getSubmitValue('when');
would like to know more on smpt email server.
is it free?
also suppose I want a email alert each time I receive email from smpt email server, how to set up?
setting SMTP server for email function:
I have a website using asp.net C#, in my web.config, I have set below:
<mailSettings>
<smtp from="noreply@myWebsite.com">
<network host="localhost" port="25" userName="" password="" defaultCredentials="true"/>
</smtp>
</mailSettings>
What should I do for the SMTP server?
I got plesk 8.2 on a linux machine (CentOS 4.3).
I'm having probs sending emails.
I created a few email accounts for a client. they can receive emails with no prob.
however, if I set my server as the outgoing server, they are unable to send emails.
could I be missing some packages?
I'm using smtp.domainname.com as setting.
I just enabled SMTP on my box, and tried requesting a loss password on my website, i get this error.
Quote:
Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set()
How do i get rid of this error.
Is anyone successfully using cPanel with smtp port 587 and have a working email account?
After deciding that Plesk wasn't for me due to the lack of reference material in this and other forums, I had my hosting company, ServInt, delete my old vps and install a new one with cPanel.
Everything went fine until I configured my email. Just like with Plesk, I cannot access the smtp server via Outlook. I can ping it successfully, but it either terminates the connection or doesn't recognize the correct user name and password. With Plesk, it was a simple matter of enabling the use of port 587.
Not so with cPanel, at least for me. Even though the Exim service is enabled and another instance is enabled on port 587, I still can't connect. Thought it might be CFS, which is new to me with this install, so made sure it was disabled. Opened up a ticket with ServInt and even their techs can't get it functioning, so _they've_ opened up a ticket with cPanel.
Hence the title of this post, I can't beleive that I'm the only one whose had this problem before because blocking port 587 has been done by BellSouth/AT&T for many years now.
Nothing like having your company email down for over 6 hours to keep you up at night.
I have a contact form using .php to forward the contents of the form to my email-ad, but turns out, that something i cant do with my free hosting plan.
i was wondering if anyone knew any services (free) that allow mail forwarding where i can host my .php script together with all associated files and simply link to them from my site?
that would be great! thanks!
(not sure where exactly this post belongs, but it's got something to do with my hosting so im posting it here. if any mods think it should be somewhere else, just move it to where you feel it is appropriate )
for a SMTP server / hints at how it might be done to accomodate the following :
One single email will be sent. If it doesn't get sent on the first try by one server, another server at another location will attempt the connection and will send out the email then.
Is there a prebuilt solution that anyone knows that will help with these things ? If not, do you know of any ways that this might be possible to be done - even if you don't know the exact details of how it should be done - any help in finding out something like this would help .
Note :
Linux / Windows / FreeBSD / Solaris is fine. So whatever OS it is, it's fine by me.
I am having trouble with setting up an email account to set up the email I go to Mail > Create Email Address > and enter email address (info@example.com) and check the "access to control panel" and create a password and also check "mailbox" .
But in the email client, when I go to use SMTP and I enter the following info:
- SMTP Server: example.com
- username: info@example.com
- password: password I created above
- port 25
- user TLS
I get this error: Your other email provider is responding too slowly. Please try again later, or contact the administrator of your other domain for further information.
I use postfix/smtp plesk12 centos7, I create mailbox add password. For example my domain is a.com from roundcube all work no problem.
My script isn't working look like this:
SMTP CONFIGURATION (LEAVE DEFAULT IF YOU USE mail() )
SMTP HOST smtp.a.com
SMTP PORT 587
SMTP Secure tls
SMTP Auth true
SMTP USERNAME test@a.com
SMTP PASSWORD my password
And the script dont send emails to user, say that Mailer Error: SMTP connect() failed. In dns settings I don't have smtpa.com host only have mail.a.com why from scripts don't send email to users?
actually i want to know is this sending this email by my smtp server?
Feb 23 14:49:36 nsxxxxxx /var/qmail/bin/relaylock[9836]: /var/qmail/bin/relaylock: mail from 187.5.81.179:51251 (187-5-81-179.bsaco701.dsl.brasiltelecom.net.br)
Feb 23 14:49:37 nsxxxxxx qmail-queue-handlers[9838]: Handlers Filter before-queue for qmail started ...
Feb 23 14:49:37 nsxxxxxx qmail-queue-handlers[9838]: from=Frederick59c@brasiltelecom.net.br
Feb 23 14:49:37 nsxxxxxx qmail-queue-handlers[9838]: to=info@xxxxxxxxxx.be
Feb 23 14:49:37 nsxxxxxx qmail-queue-handlers[9838]: handlers_stderr: SKIP
[code]....
i have this weird problem of emails not gettign delivered and i am hosting with theplanet. Every email is sitting on the queue and not delivered.
i checked with dnsreport and it says
Timed out [Last data sent: [Did not connect]]
and my exim_mainlog shows
R=dk_lookuphost defer (-1): host lookup did not complete
2008-06-03 04:49:59 SMTP command timeout on connection
i have restarted exim, checked firewall and still i am unable to fix my problem!
update:
i again checked with dnsreport and my nameservers are failing
NS FAIL NS A timeout occurred getting the NS records from your nameservers! None of your nameservers responded fast enough. They are probably down or unreachable. I can't continue since your nameservers aren't responding. If you have a Watchguard Firebox,
it's due to a bug in their DNS Proxy, which must be disabled (31 Jul 2006 UPDATE: several years after being informed of this, there is a rumor that there is a fix that allows the Watchguard DNS proxy to work).
We have a few users that use SSL email and we decided to purchase a cheap single-root SSL cert over at namecheap for the host name so that it would end the "self-signed cert" whining.
We got the cert installed and it works great for WHM/cPanel and also works for SSL over IMAP and POP3, but the very first email anyone sends (SMTP) per day gives this warning (Outlook Express):
The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that could not be verified.
A certificate chain processed, but terminated in a root certificate which is not trusted by the trust provider.
It seems obvious that the cert used by the SMTP system is not the new one we installed.
We used WHM's SSL/TLS -> Change Server Certificates link to install the cert.
We then made sure that:
/usr/share/ssl/certs/host.domain.com.crt
/usr/share/ssl/private/host.domain.com.key
/etc/exim.crt
/etc/exim.key
...all contained the current cert or key as appropriate.
Just for grins, we even made sure:
/usr/local/cpanel/etc/cpanel.pem
...had the correct pair.
We restarted all the mail services and even restarted the whole server. (I know...Windows reaction...bad tech.)
Does anyone know of a stealth location where the SSL cert for SMTP should be updated?
WHM 10.8.0 cPanel 10.9.0-R139
CentOS 3.8 i686 - WHM X v3.1.0
The problem is, can not send mail via SMTP using popular scripts Opencart, SMF, Osclass. The problem was lapping Plesk 11.5 via 587 port. That was timeout connection or authorization error with the correct settings. Mail may be sent, sometimes not. No longer working than working. At the same time when working with e-mail clients(example, The Bat) work fine. In Plesk 12 same problem. Port 465 - e-mail clients(example, The Bat) work fine. But can not send mail via SMTP using popular scripts Opencart, SMF, Osclass. When using Cpanel with Exim - all work perfect. But the Plesk e-mail with Postfix - constant problems.
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Do forwarding addresses accumulate SMTP traffic on the log?
Also, if a forwarding email is created without a mailbox is it necessary to add a password so that "others" cannot use the blank SMTP server to send email out?
I want to cap users on outbound emails ....
Example: User A sends an email to 100 people (using To,cc and bcc) . However the server needs to stop sending that message and cap a limit of 5 recipients per email