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Should I change the Envelope From for Sendmail

Currently the Envelope from is apache_user@mydomain.com. All emails sent from this website use the From address of contact@mydomain.com. Should I change the Envelope send address to match the From ...
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DNS Record for Sending Mail Server

Have 3 servers - web server, mail server and outbound-only email server. The outbound-only email server sends transaction based emails on behalf of the web server (password reset, contact us, etc.) ...
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Configure Exchange to receive email from an internal address with an external IP address

Our company provides email marketing services. Our service is hosted and emails are deployed from our IP addresses. Clients use their email address(es) as the "from" address, and typically, as long as ...
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Does using a 'foreign' domain as email sender reduce email reputation?

We want to send emails through our webapp. Users of the app provide their email adresses. In some cases, we want to send transactional email from the webapp, using the current user as a sender. Does ...
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What is preferable, “no-reply@” or “noreply@”? [closed]

Having a service that sends out notifications to users, I'm currently thinking about changing the sender email address from "info@" to something more meaningful. Since a reply never makes sense, I'm ...
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Postfix bounce local delivery with source address from orig_to

I am creating a python script to deliver local mail using various means. The problem is this: This script has to accept multiple virtual domains defined in /etc/postfix/virtual The script does the ...
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Email Deliverability on Yahoo is very poor. Any suggestions please?

All other ISPs (Google, AOL, Hotmail) are fantastic, hitting 98-100% in the inbox. Yahoo is very random, and lately our deliverability has dropped drastically. All IPs are senders certified by Return ...
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Hotmail Sender ID always fails with “temperror” regardless of SPF

When we send mail to Hotmail servers, they do not recognize our Sender ID. In the receiving mail source, it reads Authentication-Results: hotmail.com; sender-id=temperror ... when it should say pass ...
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Does return-path email address domain have a deliverability reputation?

Just wondering if I should build my delivery reputation over return-path email address domain (by keeping it same in every campaign delivery) or can I change it regularly? Any thoughts? Thanks
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What software generates the SMTP bounce message “550 Envelope blocked - User Entry”?

I'm troubleshooting an issue where email sent from a specific user is blocked every time to only a specific sender. The NDR generated (from our Exchange server) has the following message: #550 ...
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Is an email whitelist tied to a domain name, or an IP address?

If I move my email server to a different server, and consequently a different IP address, but keep the same domain name, do I lose the work I've done to get whitelisted?
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Exim Throttling - how to setup exim to control email deliveries/hour to each ISP?

I couldn't find any resource about how to setup exim throttling. I needed to control email delivery flow respecting each ISP rate limits and guidelines. Can anyone point me some references on how to ...
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Mail deliverability rDNS best practice

I have an email server which sends email for multiple websites (different domain names each) the reply-to will correspond to no-reply@website-a.com (or whatever their username/website is) but the ...
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Our domain is being appended onto emails addresses that are sent from our server, why?

Our app sends out many types of email notifications. On some occasions, we see that the email addresses are getting our domain appended to them. e.g. michael@gmail.com turns into ...
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How do delivery receipt in horde works?

I want to send emails (using perl) using postfix MTA with a delivery receipt like horde does. Some have any idea?
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Email deliverability — Whitelist solution or Email delivery service?

our company is encountering the same recurring problem - email deliverability. A lot of our emails are still getting trapped in yahoo and gmail spam filters. We followed yahoo's best practices guide ...
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Is sending email from EC2 / Rackspace Cloud a bad idea?

In this article it mentions that TrendMicro is now treating all emails from Amazon's EC2 as coming from "Dial Up Users": likely to be spam and this is creating severe deliverability issues with their ...
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Sendmail: external alias not receiving relayed mail under certain circumstances

I have set up an alias in /etc/mail/aliases like this: user: xxxx@gmail.com This relay DOES work when I telnet to example.com 25 and send mail to user@example.com (where example.com is my ...
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Linux Sendmail server misdelivers mail to my own domain?

I'm seeing a very low percentage of misdelivered emails from my sendmail host. My sendmail server will try to email an address like "john.dough@johndoughs.own.domain.example.com" and the email will ...
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Email Delivery To University Mail Servers (.edu emails)

I'm running an app at www.universitytutor.com which lets people find tutors. Most of the tutors are college students. We send out a follow up email 2 weeks after someone contacts a tutor to ask how ...
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Why does yahoo block the emails we send?

We have a smtp server for sending email ,but recently we found that when we send hundred of newsletter to *@yahoo.com at a short time, it will blocked them. any one have better solution to solve it ...
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Getting stats about deliverability from postfix

At work, our CEO is working on a plan to move away from a service provider who do our Spam filtering, etc. Currently, all our mail gets relayed out through this service, and all incoming email gets ...
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Steps to take to improve email deliverability

Successfully delivering email to my clients is a pretty high priority at my company. We are of course fully opt-in, paid clients, no possibility of spam, the whole thing. The information we email is ...