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deliverability 101

By etagwerker | Published: March 17, 2009

I have been learning a lot about a very interesting subject: deliverability. Ever since I started working on this project which includes a huge mailing list, I feel like my knowledge of ‘how mail gets to your inbox’ has increased considerably. It sounds like a simple matter, but there is a lot to it. Mostly [...]

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setting up sendmail in EC2

By etagwerker | Published: February 22, 2009

Somehow I noticed that our Drupal wasn’t sending email notifications as it was supposed to. We just migrated a CMS to one of our EC2 instances. I figured that Drupal was using sendmail, as I couldn’t find any SMTP configuration in the administration section. First of all, I checked if sendmail was running: ps -aux [...]

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phpBB + authenticated SMTP problem

By etagwerker | Published: November 28, 2008

It took us almost a week to figure out the problem between phpBB and the authenticated SMTP server (mail.authsmtp.com); but we did it! Now, two days after that, I almost forgot how we solved it. So, I want to write about it so that I don’t forget. First, I tried to get phpBB configured to [...]

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