Guest Forum Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Hotmail and AOL users seem to not be getting their verification/validation emails. Is there a fix? Thinking about just disabling email validation for now, but I'm worried about spammers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest franky500 Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 How would one go about setting something such as that up? Must it be linked through IPB as well? There is a setting inside IPB to use Mandrill for sending mails.It is a case of registering an account with http://mandrill.com/ and then putting the smtp credentials that mandrill gives you into your IPB mail settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest R3DN3CK MODZ Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Did they look in their spam mail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Jrock Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 On top of what Para said, http://mxtoolbox.com/ is a great resource, which checks additional blacklists including Spamhaus. You can also verify a connection to your mx server and check DNS records. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Forum Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Maybe your site IP or domain is listed as spammer?Check http://www.spamhaus.org/lookup/Nope. Neither of the two, Gmail and everything works fine. Just not AOL and Hotmail variations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Jrock Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 If you're on shared hosting, try setting your forum to use SMTP and get the credentials and connection info from your host if you're unsure of what they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Forum Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 If you're on shared hosting, try setting your forum to use SMTP and get the credentials and connection info from your host if you're unsure of what they are.No luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest franky500 Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I used to get this issue a lot, In the end i set up the Mandrill mail account to handle the forums e-mails and since then everything seems to go through without an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Forum Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I used to get this issue a lot, In the end i set up the Mandrill mail account to handle the forums e-mails and since then everything seems to go through without an issue.How would one go about setting something such as that up? Must it be linked through IPB as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Jrock Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 http://community.invisionpower.com/blog/1174/entry-8323-ipboard-34-dev-update-bulk-mail-with-mandrill/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Forum Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 http://community.invisionpower.com/blog/1174/entry-8323-ipboard-34-dev-update-bulk-mail-with-mandrill/ There is a setting inside IPB to use Mandrill for sending mails.It is a case of registering an account with http://mandrill.com/ and then putting the smtp credentials that mandrill gives you into your IPB mail settings. Just set it up and it works perfectly! Thanks guys! But wait, this free plan has a max limit when it comes to sending emails. This isn't going to work. Maybe for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest franky500 Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 The free plan is limited to 12000 emails a month,The hourly limit will get higher and higher with every email you send (assuming it is not marked as spam). For example when i set it up my hourly limit was 25, After sending 3 emails my hourly limit went to 108 And every time i have sent more than a couple of e-mails in an hour it has gone up. As long as the majority of your e-mails get through to people the limit goes up very quickly and should not be an issue.Even if you do hit the hourly limit, it will simply send through anything remaining in the next hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Forum Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 The free plan is limited to 12000 emails a month,The hourly limit will get higher and higher with every email you send (assuming it is not marked as spam). For example when i set it up my hourly limit was 25, After sending 3 emails my hourly limit went to 108 And every time i have sent more than a couple of e-mails in an hour it has gone up. As long as the majority of your e-mails get through to people the limit goes up very quickly and should not be an issue.Even if you do hit the hourly limit, it will simply send through anything remaining in the next hour.Great news! Thanks Franky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest franky500 Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 No problem, Glad it's useful for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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