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E-mail should be working again

Just a short notice to let you all know that we've started using Mandrill to send automated system e-mails to LowEndTalk.com users. Anybody who has been experiencing issues with receiving e-mail should now start to receive e-mail again.
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-MannDude
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here...? Gmail has weird SPAM filters sometimes, it tosses good e-mail in the SPAM folder for reasons I don't know.
In any case, you got the e-mail, which is the most important thing.
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Does this issue have any correlation with not getting in-site notifications of mentions?
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Sorry, I thought the announcement was made because LET's emails were going to spam and that this change of setup was the solution to remedy that.
-MannDude
Nope. The issue was that some e-mail providers rely solely on SpanHaus' lists and thus were rejecting (not marking as SPAM) all e-mail. Those people should now be receiving e-mail again.
SPAM filters are mostly custom to the user, AFAIK.
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I've got mine fine. Not going to spam. Thanks.
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Finally started getting the first ones in my inbox other then in Spam. We are using Zoho as our provider with the standard spam settings.
Now all the emails are going straight to my spam box, unlike before.
Outlook.com/Hotmail still blocks the E-Mails.
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You could check you personal settings at outlook.com. If that's not causing the issue, you should be looking for another e-mail provider. If they're blocking mail coming from Mandrill you're probably going to miss out on a lot of e-mail.
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With a dedicated IP?
any idea re: hotmail/outlook, i suspect if enough members marked your domain as a safe sender, you'd get unblocked for everyone.
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So switching to mandrill actually reduced deliverability?
Just fill the form Outlook.com offers for deliver ability issues and they will respond or speak with Mandrill if your using their services.
However I suspect its an issue their side not to do with mandrill but the history of the domain.
I can confirm the services I have using Mandrill is not blocked in Outlook.com.
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Before the switch LET's emails were SPF and DKIM validated and went straight to my Gmail inbox. Now they're not and they go to spam. We know Gmail puts a lot of weight into authentication, so it seems like a safe assumption that the lack of that is at least part of the problem, if not the whole problem?
I use Mandrill as a sender as well and have seen identical emails immediately switch from going into Gmail's spam folder to Gmail's inbox just by setting up SPF and DKIM.
http://help.mandrill.com/entries/22030056-How-do-I-add-DNS-records-for-my-sending-domains-
I would assume they had set up SPF and DKIM as part of the switch to Mandrill?
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Nah:
No.
I have asked Alex to fix the DKIM. According to Mandrill the SPF record is just fine.
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Weird. Gmail didn't see it earlier and I don't see it now -- these are the only TXT and SPF records that come up:
We had fixed the spf record yesterday actually.
This may be helpful. https://www.nccgroup.com/media/481419/wp-us-14-williams-i_know_your_filtering_solution_better_than_you_do-web-1-0.pdf
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I don't filter out spam and I've never received an email from the help desk. I don't know if this is related, thought I'd put it out there.
We recently moved the helpdesk's email server too, let us know if its working better as well.
Looks like LET emails are coming from the LowEndBox servers again (not Mandrill), and for me they're going into spam.
Which e-mails are you talking about? PM notifications? Registration e-mail? Helpdesk e-mail?
I just realized the e-mail settings may not have synced across the cluster which results in e-mail not being delivered to some people. I'll ask Alex to look at it.
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It seems to be the case that the settings are just on one server. The cluster doesn't have a distributed file system (for core files) so any changes to the configuration I make need to be done manually by Alex. I forgot this was the case as well for e-mail settings.
I'll get this fixed ASAP guys. My apologies for any inconvenience caused.
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Is the cluster still needed in the first place? It's hard to imagien that LET causes so much load that it can't be handled by a single modern dual CPU box. I think there should be enough advertising revenue to pay for this?
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Sounds like you figured it out already but yeah, Vanilla stuff like PM and topic notifications.
I think it's mostly to handle peak traffic and possible attacks better, though I'm not sure. I didn't design it.
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I noticed that if there's a lot of stuff going on (loads of PMs or highlights) you only get some email notifications, but if it's slow you get all of it. Seems like it's ratelimited?
One has landed this morning in my Outlook.com inbox, nothing else yet or earlier however.
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Actually my confirmation email ended up in the spam folder. I guess it's due to the link or something, IDK. At least I received it!
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Nope. There's 1 cluster server that uses Mandrill and the others use the old mailserver. So, you've received an e-mail through Mandrill, I think.
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Everything is still going to my spam box
At least you get it
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hi,
just a little update that your emails are going through to my spam folder.
Helpdesk e-mails are coming through now. @mpkossen - Any update on my ticket, its been over a week?
As long as people keep asking me everywhere when they can get featured I don't have time to reply to tickets.
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I would ask but I figure after 6 months im not getting listed.
Just ignore them, like Jon and support threads
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That shouldn't be possible as that ticket would have been closed by now.
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Strange, I never heard anything so I assumed it wasn't an offer you were after listing.
I might throw another one up for new plans once we have finished internal testing
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All LowEndTalk webservers should now be using Mandrill, which should result in all e-mails being delivered.
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I had a pm notification from lowendtalk go to my gmail spam box today.
Delivered-To: redacted
Received: by 10.202.230.74 with SMTP id d71csp310003oih;
Thu, 28 Aug 2014 05:49:51 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.152.205.36 with SMTP id ld4mr4213688lac.40.1409230190761;
Thu, 28 Aug 2014 05:49:50 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: redacted
Received: from forward2m.mail.yandex.net (forward2m.mail.yandex.net. [37.140.138.2])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k5si5091981laa.119.2014.08.28.05.49.49
for redacted
(version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128);
Thu, 28 Aug 2014 05:49:50 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: none (google.com: redacted does not designate permitted sender hosts) client-ip=37.140.138.2;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
spf=neutral (google.com: redacted does not designate permitted sender hosts) smtp.mail=redacted;
dkim=pass header.i=@mail16.wdc04.mandrillapp.com;
dmarc=fail (p=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=lowendtalk.com
Received: from mxfront8m.mail.yandex.net (mxfront8m.mail.yandex.net [37.140.138.58])
by forward2m.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 4FD695CA1054
for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:49:49 +0400 (MSK)
Received: from mxfront8m.mail.yandex.net ([127.0.0.1])
by mxfront8m.mail.yandex.net with LMTP id nnT08Zuk
for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:49:49 +0400
Received: from mail16.wdc04.mandrillapp.com (mail16.wdc04.mandrillapp.com [205.201.139.16])
by mxfront8m.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPS id dA8twvKoJb-nmgCbLJp;
Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:49:48 +0400
(using TLSv1.2 with cipher AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits))
(Client certificate not present)
Yeah, my notifications go straight to the Gmail spam box. Is DKIM enabled?
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Looks good to my anti-spam. I wonder if Gmail just hates Mandrill App.
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Good to hear, let us know if anything else does not arrive as expected.
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I use mandrillapp and have zero problems here with gmail.
Still going straight to my spam box edit using gmail.
What email?