Tutorials & Guides Email Delivery Solutions
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Having issues with your phpMyDirectory delivering emails to your users? Over the past several months we have been having major issues where emails sent through our server did not reach their destinations. Most of the time email delivery issues are solved with proper SPF records, however setting up proper SPF records can be a nightmare especially if you are not server-literate. The mother of all delivery issues we had is hotmail email accounts. Gmail/Yahoo and other free email based services were not a problem, but Hotmail and other MSN email services flat out rejected all our emails sent. We finally found a solution that is unbelievably simple which solved all our email delivery issues. Check out http://www.smtp2go.com/ This service is very cheap (as low as $23.88 / year) and took us only 1 minute to setup on our servers! Test emails sent were delivered straight hotmail inboxes (which amazed me) and there were no delay's in delivery. Not only can you use this for your server/phpMyDirectory installation, you can also set it up for your email program on your computer. This is especially handy for users who travel a lot. Whenever you are at a different location and you use email applications such as Microsoft Outlook, you have to manually configure your SMTP server settings depending on the Internet ISP you are using at your new locations. With smtp2go you only have to configure it once and you can send emails wherever you are in the world without having to reconfigure settings! If you decide to go with this service (highly recommended) here are the steps to set it up for your phpMyDirectory after you signup with smtp2go:
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