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The major email vendors (which, for example, almost all our Avalon members use) are becoming increasingly strict with what email they will accept. They are imposing increasingly stringent standards...

Yesterday, I disabled all three of sendmail, postfix, and dovecot, which were the three major email handling programs installed on our Avalon server.

We were not using any of them, and even if we...

Correction of correction:
While the venerable sendmail program is installed on the Avalon server, as are also email programs Postfix and Dovecot, those are not what we use to send mail. Rather we...

It might well be that the reason that the Honorable Mr "noreply" got the blame for all that Gmail traffic from our Avalon server is that our server's secure SMTP login to the Gmail server (done each...

We do similar - using Dovecot (an SMTP server) rather than PHP's builtin email handler, to send outgoing email on its way. [/QUOTE]
Belated technical correction: We use Sendmail, not Dovecot, to...

Yup - ISP's are part of the internet infrastructure. Part of their job is moving packets, whether email or otherwise, toward wherever they are destined. For email, that's going to be wherever the...

Ah - yes - we could send email more directly to which ever big boy server each email address referred to.

Here are the top 31 email domains of our Avalon members, from some few year old data I...

Absolutely - if any of our current, or potential new, members choose to setup their own SMTP email server, our Avalon server could send them email directly, without going through any of the big boys....

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Well, well ... thanks to my log file examination skills, and the talents of one other Avalon staff member (not sure if he wants to be named ... he or Bill are Welcome to let him take a bow) ......

To minimize the risk of a website takedown, whether by script kiddies or satanists:

One has to register the URL for one's website (e.g. "projectavalon.net") with a separate, reliable, DNS...

We do similar - using Dovecot (an SMTP server) rather than PHP's builtin email handler, to send outgoing email on its way. You might want to check out this article for a comparison of the advantages...

Yes - as I noted in Post #2 above ... though your statement of that problem is more clearly worded than mine ... good.



Whether Google's gmail is blocking all email that Avalon sends it, or...

Once I get my super-duper firewall back up and working on the Avalon forum, I will easily be able to examine the related log files and see whether:


two post requests were sent to the forum...

Off hand, I have no clue, and no correlating evidence that I've noticed.

Fastmail is my preferred email provider for the personal accounts of old school geeks like me who appreciate Fastmail's rich client technology. I've been using email for nearly a half century, and...

For the record, putting "DNS TXT CNAME mailgun" in a search engine got me this relevant explanation:


Mailgun Help Center: Domain Verification Walkthrough

Ok - it's making a wee bit more sense to me (and I haven't even had my morning coffee yet :coffee: :fingers crossed:).

If you're logged into the forum (presumably in your case as "Bill Ryan"), and...

So far, unless I missed something (quite possible), the only lost Contact messages have been an essay in Russian on freight transportation (huh?), Viagra advertisements, and test messages from Bill...

I suspect that this same issue will also affect other email messages sent from the ProjectAvalon server in the last couple of days, and counting, such as:


messages telling members that threads...