My GAE app sends email, and I followed Jeff Atwood's excellent article to improve the likelihood of email delivery.
The first two steps are really easy, but setting up a Sender ID record is more challenging. The article provides a link to a "Wizard" to help do this, but I don't know the answer to many of the questions in the wizard.
I use Google Apps for email so I'm thinking the Sender ID record should be the same for many other people in my situation (Google Apps and GAE users).
Can anyone point me to a Sender ID record for this?
EDIT:
This page explains how to set the SPF and SenderID record for Amazon SES, and gives the following TXT record for SPF:
v=spf1 include:amazonses.com -all
and the following TXT record for SenderID:
spf2.0/pra include:amazonses.com -all
Leontx's answer appears to give an SPF record and not a SenderID record.
Also, when I look at the headers of the email I send with GAE, there are notes saying that SPF authentication passes even though I haven't added either of the above TXT records to my domain. There is no info in the headers about SenderID.
I'm still confused about this, but I will now be using Amazon SES to send email. It is really cheap and it seems that Amazon takes a lot more care than Google to help make sure that email gets delivered.
Here's the TXT record I had to create to get SenderID to pass:
Host: #
Text value: v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all
But I had to get both SenderID and DKIM passing to get mail into Hotmail's inbox. To get DKIM to pass I had to create a custom domain for our GAE app that matched the domain of the email's From address. Then I had enable DKIM through that domain's Google Apps account. Then it finally worked.
GAE mail (I use Python) does not give any feedback when you send mail. To receive feedback you have to use another service /API. I use Amazon SES in my applications.
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I'm trying to change "When replying to a message" (card "Accounts", section "Send mail as") to "Reply from the same address to which the message was sent" in Gmail Settings" by Gmail API (using service account that was delegated domain-wide authority) and I cannot find it in the docs (https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/v1/reference/users/settings/sendAs).
To explain why I want to do this: I'm adding certain role based Google Groups my users are member of to their send email as preferences (by the service account with domain wide authority). For example, users responsible for dealing with legal# address are member of Google Group called legal and they have legal mails in their mailbox. When responsible users change, I just change the membership and new users receive the mails. The problem is that just the first email comes to legal# and reply goes from john.smith# for example. Because of that, I decided to have them reply from legal#, so those who requests something from Legal Departament knows they are communicating with whole Legal Departament and not Mr Smith only. But when Gmail doesn't automatically choose correct address when replying to the legal mail, it doesn't do what I'm trying to do.
It doesn't matter for me if I change it in admin console or by script running on all users. I wasn't able to use any of those ways.
Thank you for your help,
Martin
I'm pretty certain that Gmail setting ("always reply from xx#yy, or reply from the same address to which the message is sent") is not available in the Gmail API. It really is a client-side issue, since the email client chooses the "From:" line when composing each message or reply.
For your issue, you should be able to use Google groups as a collaborative inbox, see: https://support.google.com/a/answer/167430?hl=en
This user note explains your use case, see: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/apps/siprUn9Nm9g
I have successfully setup Postfix with SPF and DKIM using Google Apps (paid account with custom domain).
Before SPF and DKIM, the admin notifications ended up in spam folder but after setting those up, the emails go to my inbox (without even whitelisting the domain!)
Now, I am using tools like OSSEC which send a lot of admin notifications per day. These are only send to my own personal email address.
Is this going to affect the spam rating of my domain in the foreseeable future?
as from my personal experience I would be quite self convinced in such situation that sending such admin notification shouldn't affect your sender reputation. As far as SPF and DKIM are properly configured and you still sending to your own address only it must not have any negative effect.
I have the following situation:
xxx#gmail.com (gmail login)
xxx#company.be (mails are standard send from this mailadress)
So far so good.
I use a script in google apps to send a newsletter to all my contacts.
The script always uses the xxx#gmail.com adress instead of xxx#company.be
This is the specific part of the script:
var emailYourAddr = Session.getUser().getEmail();
Does anybody know how to change the script so the mails will be sent from the standard mailadress?
Thank you very much in advance!
You will have to first configure the company mail with gmail and then Use the company email as alias to send to send mail where the from field will show company email.
Below two links might be helpful to you.
http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=22370
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/class_gmailapp#getAliases
We are sending newsletters to users subscribed through a TV Show website, using Google App Engine Java Mail API.
The FROM address we are using are name#example.com but the problem occurs with name#[appid].appspotmail.com as well.
We already setup a SPF and DKIM records and we have a low score on SpamAssassin (about 0.7).
All others email providers receive the email normally (hotmail, yahoo, aol, etc.), but, in Gmail, ALL messages are sent straight to Spam folder. Every single one.
Anyone have a clue on this?
If all the other mail providers are working, you may want to look at gmail's spam policy: https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=81126 It may shed some light on the issues you're having.
Just wondering if someone else found a solution to the following :
--> I have an application running on GAE sending emails
--> These emails are delivered with no problem to gmail accounts but arrive in the spam folder of hotmail
--> I have adapted the SPF record in the nameserver to "v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all" but that did not help
There are a few discussions on this subject in the past but not clear on whether or not there is another solution than asking people to add the application email in the contact list.
Thanks !
You should also add DKIM now that AppEngine finally supports it.
For anyone who is having the same issue.
Problem description
Mail sent from Google App Engine are delivered correctly to gmail.com but arrive in the spam folder of hotmail.com and are even automatically deleted from other
Solution
Two steps to follow:
In the SPF record in the nameserver, include "v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all"
If you email accounts are managed by Google Apps, follow the DKIM procedure. This involves adding TXT records in your nameserver. Some companies offer to update this on-line, I add to exchange emails with the support of my registrar.