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[Register new account/ reset password] Emails are going to spam

Open fayyazahmed66 opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Register a new user or reset your password
  2. Check your inbox Expected result: Email should come to inbox Actual result: Emails coming to spam spam

fayyazahmed66 avatar Nov 01 '22 09:11 fayyazahmed66

label: olive testing

fayyazahmed66 avatar Nov 01 '22 09:11 fayyazahmed66

@fayyazahmed66 this is normal for Open edX® so to say. The SMTP service is enabled, but the server is not configured for email authentication (DKIM, SPF, etc.). This means that emails do get sent, but it's very likely that they will end up in spam, depending on your email client configuration.

Should we add this to the list of post-launch test cases? That way we can wait for someone in our team to launch an Olive instance and configure email authentication and see if it works.

Honestly, even with authentication, some emails still end up going to spam.

DeanJayMathew avatar Nov 02 '22 15:11 DeanJayMathew

I've registered some users in the last couple of days, and I've been getting the activation emails just fine. Can you test this again? should the server setup be a prerequisite for the demo installation?

mariajgrimaldi avatar Nov 15 '22 13:11 mariajgrimaldi

I just want to point out that we would never have received our own activation emails for our accounts on the demo server if there was a problem. It might depend on the rules used by the service receiving the emails?

sambapete avatar Nov 15 '22 17:11 sambapete

It's working for me fine with GSuite email.

DeanJayMathew avatar Nov 22 '22 13:11 DeanJayMathew

I have verified it again. Emails are coming fine now.

fayyazahmed66 avatar Nov 28 '22 08:11 fayyazahmed66