David Exodus
Posted in Technical Support 5 years ago
Hello people, i wanted to ask how to optimize the phpmail class for not coming to the spam folder.
As it seems like this appears often and i also tried to switch to SMTP for testing purposes but somehow it didn't work event with the SMTP Component. I would like to use my own SMTP settings and more... How can i even set an SPF record or things that aren't described in the:
/classes/mail
folder?
The SMTP Component itself says that it's connected.
David Exodus
Replied 5 years ago
Sendmail is for sure listening and working, I'm using this mail on a regular basis with these settings im using also for ossn. The main problem is that I can't force it to send via SMTP instead of PHPmail.
Michael Zülsdorff
Replied 5 years ago
Well, admittedly the responses of the OSSN SMTP component are not really transparent.
You said "The SMTP Component itself says that it's connected."
That's in fact a good first result - but to my knowledge the component doesn't verify whether your MTA (sendmail or whatever) is also listening to the port you had chosen.
To verify you may run telnet localhost YOUR_CHOSEN_PORT from your shell.
Please understand that it's beyond the scope of this forum to support 3rd party software or how to get your server up and running, but I'm sure you'll find the right how-tos somewhere on the net.
David Exodus
Replied 5 years ago
Alright, I've setup a new dns provider which allowed me to make these records. Is there Anything else to optimize this process? So isn't it possible to simply activate the SMTP Class instead of PHPMail? I would prefer it also because of Port 465 and SSL.
By the way 62.138.238.45 can't be, as i have no server there... couldn't test it yet as the new configuration already loaded.
Michael Zülsdorff
Replied 5 years ago
Well,
different mail agents may use different rule-sets to devide 'good' mail from spam - one rule commonly in use is: Does reverse DNS lookup work?
And in your case it does not:
nslookup metal-schweiz.ch resolves to 62.138.238.45,
but nslookup 62.138.238.45 gives non-existent domain
Thus, before trying to use any 3rd-party mail relay I'd recommend to set up your server correctly and make reverse DNS lookup work first.
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