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Anyone using anything like sendgrid or postmarkapp.com to improve their deliver ability of emails from whmcs? If so, have you found it to be useful/successful?

 

SendGrid is awesome. I have not used them with cPanel but have used them for other projects. Great service, great customer support.

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Hi,

 

Im also veru interested in finding a transaction email service that can integrate with WHMCS to send out system emails and improve deliverability and also to have the ability to track the messages sent (boucnes, etc...).

 

Postmarkapp or mailchimp new transactional service: mandrill.com would be great. Does any one if a simple smtp integration will work of if we have to build a plugin to have it work?

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I don't see any reason why using the SMTP service with these providers will not work. The only issue you may face is if you ever send attachments to your clients, most of these services will strip out attachments depending on the file type but most will allow pdf and text files but not zip files.

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I'ved tested this with mandrill and it just works, all you need to do is entry the smtp details into your WHMCS, it is also recommend that you setup DKIM and SPF according to their instructions.

 

Regarding attachments, it depends on the file type:

http://help.mandrill.com/entries/21763806-does-mandrill-support-attachments

 

Mandrill is great because they give you 12,000 emails a month for no cost.

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I'ved tested this with mandrill and it just works, all you need to do is entry the smtp details into your WHMCS, it is also recommend that you setup DKIM and SPF according to their instructions.

 

Regarding attachments, it depends on the file type:

http://help.mandrill.com/entries/21763806-does-mandrill-support-attachments

 

Mandrill is great because they give you 12,000 emails a month for no cost.

 

Hi,

 

Thanks for your information and advice. Just one more question, im at the moment using norely@mydomain.com a the smtp user. Is this the email address i should use or not. Do you have any advice on this?

 

Thanks

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The smtp username is your login username for mandrill, as far as the from address goes, I would use your support email address so if a customer has a question they can just replay to the email.

 

To the support or the acocunt department.. heres is the question. Depending on the email

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I've found Rackspace to be good. It also does incoming, so you can off load the mail services to their cluster. Therefore, you never loose any emails!

 

In a simple way you are saying that you are using Rackspace Email to host your emails and you use WHMCS to connect using SMTP to one of your Rackspace email accounts?

 

Thanks

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  • 1 year later...

On the one hand you're right as sendgrid is part of rackspace now but on the other hand it is not like connecting directly to rackspace with a regular account as sendgrid is designed for mass email, includes deliverabilty and read reports and helps ensure you don't end up on spam lists. Yup, we use sendgrid, have done for years, like them very much :-)

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