I'm facing following issue:
I send emails from rails using Mailer, it goes fine to all recipients except users with xxx.yahoo.com account.
I tried sending it using SMPT of
Gmail
SendGrid
In none of the case it is delivered.
It gives me following error message
554 Message not allowed - [PH01] Email not accepted for policy
reasons. Please visit
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/postmaster/SLN5067.html [120]
And when I open their provided link, I see following:
You'll receive an SMTP error or failed delivery message that includes
"554 Message not allowed" when the content of a message you're trying
to send violates Yahoo Mail policies. Content that violates policies
includes; objectionable links, malicious attachments, or bad header
information.
They mentioned about content, so I tried sending simple email (note same email when sent from Mail(mac) client, goes fine)
Hello Mr. Suraj,How are you? Not heard from you for long
time.See you soon.
So, this doesn't looks related to content, so bad header information ?
If its so then, doesn't it a Rails/Mailers issue?
I don't understand how to fix this, any one came across this?
Thank you in advance.
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I am using free mandrill account and sending email via using template and API
When i send message it returns okay it is sent as status
However even after several days there is still no smtp events at mandrill interface and the email is not arrived
So i am 100% suree mandrill is ghosting accounts
Or there is something else that i do not know?
Thank you for answers
PS: At the beginning emails were arriving but after some point no smtp events and no emails ever arrived even though no error message parsed. Also when i send to non existing email no bounce message returned.
Also account reputation is 61 : excellent
Yes i believe mandrill certainly ghosting accounts
After trying with several accounts i am now sure of it
Even if you send to non existing gmail email, it says delivered in its interface
However it should have displayed hard bounced
So beware of their free service. I believe this is not an ethical way of working. People would think that their emails are arriving however they are ghosted and mandrill did not even try to send them and yet displays delivered
Have you check it on Mandrill account? It shows all the report at outbound tag. The reason is, a queued response in the Mandrill API is not the same as a queued response from a recipient server.
When you send a message through Mandrill, you first relay it to Mandrill, Mandrill processes it, and then Mandrill relays it to the recipient server. This all happens quite quickly, but the two relaying steps are separate and distinct. The KB article you've linked to is providing additional details on that last step, relaying to recipient servers, not a queued status for the Mandrill API.
There are a number of reasons the Mandrill API may respond with queued including if you've added attachments or if you're sending to a bunch of recipients in a single API call.
Without seeing the actual API call that's being made, it's hard to say why you're getting a queued response. But if you're using the sample messages/send API call, you'll want to remove all of the optional parameters that you're not actually setting. For example, the sample has fake attachments, and a subaccount specified. The attachment will cause the call to be processed async. The subaccount probably doesn't exist, and would then cause the call to fail. So if that's the case, try removing all of those optional params. If not, please provide the API call you're making with sensitive data redacted (API key, actual email addresses).
I want to use SendGrid to receive emails. Here is my scenario.
User A will send an email from user-a#example.com to User B at user-b#example.org
I've setup a rule so that emails received by User B are forwarded to c#example.net.
example.net is my domain and I have configured example.net in SendGrid to point to an MVC controller which will process the JSON posted by SendGrid.
Is this possible? I was able to receive one email but after that it stopped working. What went wrong? Can any one help me out?
The problem was solved via a different channel. The resolution can be found here: https://community.sendgrid.com/sendgrid/topics/receiving_forwarded_mails_send_grid
Through using a number of debug tools, including RequestBin and Runscope, the user found there was an error in their controller, rather than an error in forwarding or message parsing.
We were able to debug and find the problem which as you predicted was with our controller.
We are still testing by sending mails from various domains but have not come across any mail that is getting lost.
— saurabh abhyankar, May 22nd 10:53 AM GMT
I'm trying to send email from my app, emails seem to be going to mandrill correctly and there getting delivered, but I see nothing in my inbox.
I've even tried sending them through my domain and I'm still not getting them. I get them from my live website its using gmail but I want to switch
Using mxtoolbox.com I found
SMTP Reverse DNS Mismatch and
454 4.7.1 Relay access denied which could mean its been marked for spam?
It's sent through emails twice so I'm wondering if theres a time between emails sent or something.
When I was testing this I thought my emails where being dropped by gmail. I found that for some reason there was a very long lag going from Mandril to Gmail. I received all my tests about an hour after Mandril sent them. Hope this helps someone stuck like I was.
Found this question trying to diagnose my issue.
I am using Mandrill and found that sending emails from Mandrill to Gmail will take anywhere from 10 seconds to 15 minutes. Can't establish a reason why sometimes it takes longer.
Mandrill blocks certain domains from being the send address to prevent fraud, but as long as you're sending from an address you know exists to an address you know exists, you should be fine. Also, if that were the problem, the email would bounce rather than send. Also, some email services have policies that prevent you from doing things like sending an email to your address from your address from an external service. Based on that error message you provided, it could be something like that; I would check your provider's policies (and your spam folder).
Not an answer but if you look on your mandrill Outbound activity page and click on the green icon that says Delivered you should see that it says No smtp events.
I don't know why it doesn't send but this show that it hasn't sent.
Or should I say hasn't arrived where it was supposed to.
Update:
On further investigation I found out that the emails weren't sending because I was using my personal email address as the sender from_email: When I changed this to a more business sounding email address it worked. So make something up if you have to, like no-reply#nonsense.com
in github when a user sends you a message two things happen. You get a "new Message" on your github dashboard and you receive an email.
if you reply to that email it triggers a new Github message internally... so the users can actually have a full conversation through their email client without going into github even though Github is managing it all.
I know Malgun/Sendgrid have apis to manage receiving of emails (they send a POST request to your app when an email is received) but I need a little more info on how to do it... how exactly can I set up my app so that when a user receives a message they can just hit reply on their favorite email client while still maintaining track of that conversation. (they can still check their messaging history through my site)
Does anyone have an idea how exactly they do it?
Please help.
How this is implemented really depends on how you can handle incoming messages. If you're able to receive your emails as a POST to your application, then the email is really no different to a user sending the message on your site, you just need to parse the From: header from the email, and look up the user, and strip the fluff out of the email.
If you're writing your own code to handle the emails (eg. that polls a mailbox), then you could just POST them over to your app in the same way, or parse them up and POST more structured data.
Once you have the data, it's easy to construct a message and write it to your DB (and fire off email notification to the user, remembering to set the Reply-To: or From: headers so your script gets the replies). Most of these kind of messaging systems don't keep track of conversations/threads, but just store a string subject (and use "Re: ...") to keep things simple, though you could obviously add this if you're feeling ambitious!
If you're doing this, you should be security in mind - malicious users may POST to your email script, and email headers can easily be forged. Spammers will also use any possible scripts they can find to relay mail through other peoples servers.
When using 'mail' command to send email to a gmail user, the email goes through fine. When sending an email using a Rails app, the email is sent to the spam folder for the gmail user. Can someone help me think through this?
Emails landing in SPAM can happen due to many reasons:
Wrong Mail Server setup: Checkout here on how to setup
Email content: Content of the email can also invite SPAM. Sites like SpamCheck helps to check whether the content of the email is ok.
As mentioned by #Noli above, using services like Sendgrid, Critsend etc for sending out emails, chances of landing them in Inbox will be more. You can use them as relay servers from Postfix. But the first two steps are anyway necessary.
Use Mailchimp if you want to sent emails to many people, for eg: for sending out newsletters, marketing emails etc.
Mail deliverabillty is extraordinarily hard to get right. You should consider leaving this to the specialists like Sendgrid or Mailchimp, and not spend tooooo much development time thinking about it
Another thing to check is that if this is a new server, you may need to set up Domain Keys to authenticate to Gmail. This happend to me and I was able to get my mail removed from the spam folder by following these:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix/DomainKeys
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix/DKIM