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!
Email notification is down
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Re: Email notification is down
Just thinking that, after setting that up, you might want to pass outgoing email through some sort of re-director service (or at least an email alias) in case the same happens again -- in which case you just change it... I use e4ward.com, but YMMV.Andrew Lee wrote: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!
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Just setup and configured Postfix, so email notification should be working now. I will continue to monitor the mail log, as I remember some destination SMTP servers can get picky about all sort of things and refuse to accept mails.
@Midas: Not sure how that would help. I needed an outgoing SMTP server that will develop email notifications for TPFC. How does a forwarding email address fit into this scenario?
@Midas: Not sure how that would help. I needed an outgoing SMTP server that will develop email notifications for TPFC. How does a forwarding email address fit into this scenario?
Re: Email notification is down
I have been wrong before, but I was thinking along the lines that if the address got banned again, it would only be the re-director/alias, not your own server... I'm just a user, not an admin, so forgive me if this sounds moronic.Andrew Lee wrote:@Midas: Not sure how that would help. I needed an outgoing SMTP server that will develop email notifications for TPFC. How does a forwarding email address fit into this scenario?
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No worries at all. Basically, I was using Google's SMTP server for sending out emails on behalf of TPFC, but now I can't anymore (Well, actually I can create another user, but I am sure it will be banned in time to come for the same reason cited above).
So I need another SMTP server, and I have chosen to set one up myself using Postfix. Problem fixed!
So I need another SMTP server, and I have chosen to set one up myself using Postfix. Problem fixed!