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Quote from: radu81 – July 19, 2024, 04:30:59 amYou should ask your host about that, on my forum is 50 mail/minute and works fine.

Quote from: radu81 – July 19, 2024, 04:30:59 am

QuoteQuote from: Spuds – 10 hours agoUsing the PHP option in the mail settings uses PHP's mail() function which just delivers it to the servers sendmail  which is generally not fully functional on a shared host.

Not fully functional on a shared host, but works fine on a vps with Postfix

Quote from: D.M. – July 19, 2024, 03:55:04 amAlso what number of emails per minute do you advise me to set ? I currently have it set to 5 emails per minute, not sure if that's okay ?

Quote from: Spuds – July 18, 2024, 07:02:07 pmUsing the PHP option in the mail settings uses PHP's mail() function which just delivers it to the servers sendmail  which is generally not fully functional on a shared host.

Quote from: Spuds – July 18, 2024, 07:02:07 pmLooks like I missed all the fun   

Quote from: Steeley – July 18, 2024, 12:02:39 pmQuestion - Does EA send individual messages to individual users, or create a "broadcast list" and upload the list to the email server and the message for the server to distribute to the list?

It just does them one at a time to individual users

Quote from: Denis M. – July 18, 2024, 12:39:31 pmcould it be that it doesnt allow the FORUM NAME in the From field ?

That "FORUM NAME" is the common name that shows up in your email client, without that it would show the raw email address.

Using the PHP option in the mail settings uses PHP's mail() function which just delivers it to the servers sendmail  which is generally not fully functional on a shared host.

Quote from: D.M. – July 18, 2024, 02:35:58 pmThere's still a [Link] prefix before them

Why is that a problem ??  its a plain text message (NOT HTML) with an indicator that there is a link to follow.  Your email client creates the clickable link, or not, depends on the client, most do, some don't, some try and break the links.

Quote from: Steeley – July 18, 2024, 10:12:33 pm

Quote from: D.M. – July 18, 2024, 02:35:58 pmOh my GAWD 

I have finally set it up, needed to choose SMTP and run it through with the hosting providers information! Thank you very much @Steeley !!! Couldn't be possible without your troubleshooting

The mail arrived accordingly into the GMAIL mailbox and everything went smooth !!

OTay - I found my host's email worked fine with the default php setup (with some tweaks that have been rolled into subsequent releases)
You fixed your issue.. now, you're really gonna kick yourself by the time you get to the bottom of this reply.. so "gird yer loins" ! 

Quote from: D.M. – July 18, 2024, 02:35:58 pm
BUT    although the links do look a lot better now and are working perfectly ! There's still a [Link] prefix before them 

That is not an issue - if that gets turned into a clickable link, that is done by the recipient's email client. When EA sends it out, it's just text. The [Link] just clues the recipient that it IS an html link they have to copy and paste into their browser  if their client DOESN'T make it clickable..  After the 3rd time you see it, you no longer read it (or maybe not even actually "see it" any more) you just know it's there and what it means or marks.. .
(I never read the STOP sign, I see it and I automatically know what it is, and all it means to me is that it marks the location I have to stop - unless it's 3 AM then it's merely advisory..     )..

Quote from: Spuds – July 18, 2024, 07:02:07 pm
It just does them one at a time to individual users

Because of that, and EA's ability to meter the number of emails sent per minute as I pointed out on the admin page screen shot, there is NO REASON for your host to block EA emails (unless there is a limit on the total number of emails sent per month, per week, whatever..) The mail server doesn't know if the same message is sent in 10 separate emails to 10 separate addresses, or each of those 10 recipients gets a unique message.

And so, there never was a reason to deal with sendgrid ... at all. 

Now if your forum traffic gets to the point where you start annoying your host, that is typically a good problem to have, and at that point monetize your forum and get a different host!

But don't feel too bad, I was trying to use another forum package before elkarte that I spent 6 months setting up only to discover after it was all configured so I could run a critical function I needed integrating with a different platform, (that only it handled natively) that the function had a bug that rendered that function useless, and that the developers had no inclination to fix. 
Everything I'd done up to that point setting up so I could test that out, and then troubleshooting the problem and isolating it to the package and not something I'd done wrong, all of it was a complete total waste of my time. I switched to ElkArte and had it up, configured, and running in less than two weeks and then found a work-around for interfacing with the platform that drove my selection of the first package..

(And then in accordance with the universal law of infinite perversity, the platform I was trying to coordinate with that drove the need for that forum package I'd spent 6 months setting up, went and shut down several months later, making everything about that requirement totally irrelevant even if I had managed to make it work).

Now, if that makes you feel any better at all.. yea, "it could be worse".. 

Glad it's working now..

Lesson: Burn the bridges when you get to 'em.. otherwise you may discover you burned them too hastily and all you did was waste precious fuel and a damn good match.

Quote from: D.M. – July 18, 2024, 02:35:58 pmOh my GAWD 

I have finally set it up, needed to choose SMTP and run it through with the hosting providers information! Thank you very much @Steeley !!! Couldn't be possible without your troubleshooting

The mail arrived accordingly into the GMAIL mailbox and everything went smooth !!

Quote from: D.M. – July 18, 2024, 02:35:58 pm
BUT    although the links do look a lot better now and are working perfectly ! There's still a [Link] prefix before them 

Quote from: Spuds – July 18, 2024, 07:02:07 pm

QuoteQuote from: Steeley – 9 hours agoQuestion - Does EA send individual messages to individual users, or create a "broadcast list" and upload the list to the email server and the message for the server to distribute to the list?

It just does them one at a time to individual users

Quote from: Steeley – July 18, 2024, 12:02:39 pmQuestion - Does EA send individual messages to individual users, or create a "broadcast list" and upload the list to the email server and the message for the server to distribute to the list?

Quote from: Denis M. – July 18, 2024, 12:39:31 pmcould it be that it doesnt allow the FORUM NAME in the From field ?

Quote from: D.M. – July 18, 2024, 02:35:58 pmThere's still a [Link] prefix before them

Quote from: Steeley – July 18, 2024, 01:46:55 pm

Quote from: Denis M. – July 18, 2024, 12:58:35 pmThis is the From field I recieved:

]admin@mydomain.cc[/email], 18 Jul 2024 17:05:01 -0000 X-Mailer: ELK Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative, e194be95f88ef5ae361b3705a115e8f1-@mydomain.cc

Yep - 3 "from" addresses

• admin@mydomain.cc
• 18 Jul 2024 17:05:01 -0000 X-Mailer: ELK Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative
• e194be95f88ef5ae361b3705a115e8f1-@mydomain.cc

Something is not delimiting "admin@mydomain.cc" and each following "comma" is interpreted as a separate from address..

Meanwhile, make sure, in Admin  Mode, Admin Center -> Maintenance -> Mail -> Settings

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That should be it all you need..

(Note also that you can configure an email queue on that screen to meter how many emails are sent per minute so you don't overload your hosts email server]

Also Note, the server and username settings in that screen should match the settings in the client you set up and proved works, (assuming, of course, you have actually set up your own email client to try this and are not just using the hosts preconfigured webmail client.)

Quote from: Denis M. – July 18, 2024, 12:58:35 pmThis is the From field I recieved:

]admin@mydomain.cc[/email], 18 Jul 2024 17:05:01 -0000 X-Mailer: ELK Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative, e194be95f88ef5ae361b3705a115e8f1-@mydomain.cc

Quote from: Steeley – July 18, 2024, 01:13:22 pm

Quote from: Denis M. – July 18, 2024, 12:58:35 pm

I have an account on my Hosting Webmail and I'm using the RoundCube mail application supplied by my hosting provider through the cpanel, I can sucessfully send and receive email on that email through that application , which application would you advise to use ? Though the problem isn't the email application since the receiving address (GMAIL) doesn't accept multiple From addresses and the email always shows the ''Forum Name'' in the from section?

EDIT: just to add and elaborate the email goes from ElkArte, through my Mail application but gets declined and returned by Gmail

My reason for not using the hosts webmail application (roundcube) but a different client is because YOU have to configure the client credentials for accessing the account to send and receive. Roundcube as your host's email client is already configured by your host.
If you can configure an email client successfully then you now know what ElkArte has to mimic. And you'll be able to see more readily what is different between your client and ElkArte if EA still isn't working.. 

One last thing.. we already know Google is getting really stringent with email configurations and client security, so instead of using gmail as a test recipient, use an account on a different domain to test through (your own personal email addy, or set up a hotmail account  or yahoo account..), or send email to something like this, --> https://www.mail-tester.com/   for feedback,  just to make sure google isn't ..well, being google.