What does SPF mean? No when I use mail -s, the email is sent from
u...@ip.address
On Mar 20, 11:34 am, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 20 Mar 2009, at 18:16, tony wrote:
>
>
>
> > I have a rails app that can send emails to gmail, yahoo accounts. But
> > when it comes to more obscure accounts like emai...@my-app.com or
> > emai...@blah.edu, the mail never arrives even though the log shows
> > that
> > the email was sent. Any ideas why this may be happening?
>
> Different hosts might be more or less restrictive when it comes to
> spam (eg blacklists of ip ranges, whether they check SPF records etc...)> I
> have sent an email directly through the same web server through the
> > command line using
>
> > mail -s and that worked. Why doesn't it work through my rails app?
>
> I know nothing about mail -s. Does it send email through the same smtp
> server as your rails app. Would it set the same return-path/from
> address (which is what matters for SPF) as your rails app ?
>
> Fred
>
> > here are my configuration settings (mostly default)
>
> > # Disable delivery errors, bad email addresses will be ignored
> > config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
> > config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
> > config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
> > config.action_mailer.default_charset = "utf-8"
>
> > config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
> > :address => "localhost",
> > :port => 25,
> > :domain => "my-app.com"
> > }
>
> > help please!
>
> > thanks
> > Tony
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