spam filters and other mail problems

Hi,

for DKIM, SPF and DMARC please read https://support.google.com/a/answer/174124?hl=en&ref_topic=2752442&rd=1 and the follow ups.

As far as I understood you suggest to enhance wp-greet to let the user enter the DKIM parms to use it?

The disuccion about what data should be into mailreturnpoath, replyto,… is highly philosophic. Ask ten people and you will get at least 12 answers ;-))
I am thinking about adding a parameter for each and setting a default, so everybody can change it for their needs.

LOL @ ask 10 people and 12 answers. So that’s no exact science.

Thanks for the link. I did read this one.

As far as the parameters that would be great. That would mean seperate sender, from, replyto fields etc (so webmasters can at least try those 12 different settings ??

Yeah DKIM params would be great. Would that be in the form of some defined inputs, or could it be – for advanced users – a textarea where webmaster can insert line-by-line key/value with phpmailer parameters they want to use. Or more foolproof it could be in a seperate file. Whatever is placed in there would add to/override default settings added to $mail.

Offtopic, a file like that for overriding the $settings to customize tinymce, editor_css etc. would be useful as well

So, I would add or use the following fields for mail address settings:

1. Sender, if empty sender is taken from the form, else the given email address is used
2. From, if empty From is taken from the form (same as sender), else the given email address is used
3. FromName, if empty FromName is taken from the form, else the given text is used
4. Reply-To, if empty Reply-To is taken from the form (same as sender), else the given email address is used
5. BCC, if empty no BCC is added, else the given email address is used
6. Return-Path, if empty no Return-Path is set, else the given email address is used

Did I miss something?
BTW, do you have a DKIM enabled domain to test DKIM?

Yeah that’s even more than I hoped for haha. Atm I don’t see anything missing.

No, I don’t have a DKIM enabled domain, as I’m running the site on a VPS and my knowledge is lacking. Pulling my hair out to get it set up right… there’s a lot of good and bad info out there. Can’t even seem to get the PTR stuff right….

Ah yeah you forget the CC to sender ??

BTW, can these fields also work via wp_mail? (not php mail)

I’m thinking about alternatives like postmarkapp, which uses an API, but there’s also various libraries available, and a WP plugin which uses wp_mail().

I thought about the CC too but did not find a reason to set this static, since it would be visible to the receiver of the card.

I tried wp_mail before but as far as I know it has limited support for smtp, auth smtp, SSL and thats why I stoppen following this approach.

Ok, sticking with smtp.

After messing with IPv6 and DNS settings for days it looks like gmail (at least my own account) is now accepting ecards again when using static sender only.

A lot of cards were sent these last days with gmail recipients. I was thinking of using the rescheduler, but realise this won’t work. If I recall the rescheduler was created for unsent cards using card_sent=0 && future_send<>0 whereas now I have sent cards that went into spamfilters. I think I would need to resend cards for unfetched cards that are not scheduled, or have no future date.

Another concern is that sending many mails at once will again trigger a spamfilter. I don’t recall if the scheduler can set a future date, so I would have time to manually change sending time.

Also I tried the scheduler on my local install and it doesn’t seem to be doing anything… looks like I will have to resend manually.

Or, how do I let them send on its own, so it will send the emails. Set card sent to 0. Set future send to a future date/time. What else is needed?

I think this is the correct approach. I would recommend not set to much cards to the same date in the future but let’s say 25 every x hours or so.

I added the mail parameters today and now I am testing.
Would you test the new release?

Tested with the above is not working. Is visiting the site enough to trigger future cards on the scheduled datetime, or does it need a cron job?

NOTE again, I can’t use the rescheduler. It’s broken. Opens in a new screen with a textarea and 2 buttons, but they don’t do anything at all. WP contron plugin doesn’t show anything either.

Sure I’ll test the update.

Visiting the site is enough to trigger wp-cron entries to send the cards.
Yep, the thickbox is broken. Just fixed it and will send you a new package which contains all the new stuff

In the mean time I have manually forwarded the emails for gmail users. Wasn’t so bad. Happy that I my gmail issue got fixed as there were more than 100 ecards created the 24 hours alone…

With 5.0 you can enter all addresses as you like.
DKIM support will only go to a kind of premium extension if someone wants it.

Will discuss that later. Merry christmas!