Email notification is down
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 3:26 pm
Email notification is currently down and I am working to bring it up again. Might take one or two days, depending on how it goes.
Long story: When I migrated to the new server, I setup a Google Apps account to handle the emails for TPFC. I created a special "noreply" user for sending out emails on behalf of this board.
Reason: SMTP servers are notoriously troublesome to setup, secure and maintain. I was trying to offload some of the burden to Google.
Well I suspect a lot of users receive emails from the forum and mark them as spam conveniently instead of going through the route of unsubscribing. This is a widely-known problem. Personally, I have had countless legit e-newsletters moved to the spam box on my personal GMail account that I care to remember.
When Google finds a Google Apps account that is used to send out emails marked as spam by a sufficient number of users, it will ban the account. Case closed.
So now I need to install an SMTP server on the server, setup and secure it, and get emails moving again.
Apologies for the inconvenience!
Long story: When I migrated to the new server, I setup a Google Apps account to handle the emails for TPFC. I created a special "noreply" user for sending out emails on behalf of this board.
Reason: SMTP servers are notoriously troublesome to setup, secure and maintain. I was trying to offload some of the burden to Google.
Well I suspect a lot of users receive emails from the forum and mark them as spam conveniently instead of going through the route of unsubscribing. This is a widely-known problem. Personally, I have had countless legit e-newsletters moved to the spam box on my personal GMail account that I care to remember.
When Google finds a Google Apps account that is used to send out emails marked as spam by a sufficient number of users, it will ban the account. Case closed.
So now I need to install an SMTP server on the server, setup and secure it, and get emails moving again.
Apologies for the inconvenience!