WP eStore general email settings – email spoofing with Yahoo email address

[ace]

Hi,

After 2 years of use, my website stopped sending email purchase notifications, nothing weird in debug log files, all mails are sent successfully. Still gmail isn’t receiving it.

Contacted hostgator and after a long time of explaining he characterised it as email spoofing. I used my own yahoo address in the general email settings.

This is log info from host:

SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [x]: 550-5.7.1 Unauthenticated email

from yahoo.com is not accepted due to domain’sn550-5.7.1 DMARC policy. Please contact administrator of yahoo.com domain ifn550-5.7.1 this was a legitimate mail. Please visitn550-5.7.1 http://support.google.com/mail/answer/2451690 to learn about DMARCn550 5.7.1 initiative. x – gsmtp

What should we do here?

Thanks

[ace]

After researching this is the problem (probably)

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247512/Yahoo_email_anti_spoofing_policy_breaks_mailing_lists?pageNumber=1

Yahoo added some new features that now makes troubles.

You might have the same problem that you haven’t realized yet. Pay attention to it.

[admin]

This not really something for us to fix. You are free to use any email address that you want. If Yahoo changes their policy then that means you just can’t use it the way you were using before.

You can always install SMTP on your server and use that (that way you won’t need to use theirs).

I would recommend you create an email address like the following on your domain (very easy to do via cPanel):

[sales@your-domain.com] or [support@your-domain.com]

Then use that as your from email address maybe. I personally use that and I don’t even need any SMTP.

[ace]

Thanks for additional info and suggestion. I will follow it.

OK so this topic is useful for everybody who uses Yahoo email in ‘FROM’ field.

[Author]

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