help changing the From address when sending email

[Paul Hibbert]

Theresa,
It is pretty easy to set up your new domain and an email with your on-rev.com account.

First you need to set up an 'add on domain' in the c-panel for your on-rev.com account, go to the 'Domains' panel and click on the 'Addon Domain' icon. Fill in the details, it's straight forward, but remember to save the password, save the settings and go back to the c-panel home screen.

Next, go to your domain supplier's control panel and look for the Domain Name Server settings and change the Name Servers to ns1.on-rev.com, ns2.on-rev.com and ns3.on-rev.com save the settings and log out of your domain supplier's control panel.

Now you can go back to the on-rev.com control panel and configure a new email for your new domain in the Email Accounts panel.

If this isn't too clear, send me email and I'll make some screen shots to explain the steps.

Paul

Sent from my iPad

> On Oct 12, 2015, at 9:24 PM, Theresa Pettit <theresap72 at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I'm very new to this so maybe I'm oversimplifying it in my head. Do I really need to go through all of those steps? I do have a domain I purchased but it's not being hosted anywhere at the moment. 
> 
> Is it possible somehow just have my domain connected to my on-rev server account and then direct it to that to use as the from address or is it more complicated requiring the extra steps below?
> 
> Thanks,
> Theresa
> 
> 
> 
> -----------------------------
> 
> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015
> 10:02:47 -0400
> From: "Ralph DiMola" <rdimola at evergreeninfo.net>
> To: "'How to
> use LiveCode'" <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: RE: help changing the From address when sending email
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I thought sending email was an easy thing. It turns out in this spam/virus
> world we live it gets more complicated.
> 
> First of all sending messages with a "from" other than your on-rev master
> address is technically "spoofing". This is done legitimately all the time
> with consultants running a server process on behalf of their customers.
> There are several things one can do to prevent spam filters from having
> heart failure.
> 
> 1) Put a "mailfrom:ACCOUNTNAME at SERVERNAME.on-rev.com" in the email header.
> This give spam filters a valid path back to the on-rev server.
> ACCOUNTNAME = master on-rev email address(login username)
> SERVERNAME = Server name (i.e. diesel, thor....)
> 
> 2) Put a "from:SPOOFEDADDRESS at SOMECOMPANY.com" in the email header.
> SPOOFEDADDRESS at SOMECOMPANY.com = is the email address you want the recipient
> to see. It should be a valid email.
> 
> 3) put a "Message-Id: <UNIQUE-ID at SOMECOMPANY.com>" in the email header.
> UNIQUE-ID = I use the LC uuid
> 
> 4) put a "Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 22:48:57 +0200" in the email header. LC
> Example: ("Date:" && the internet date)
> 
> 5) put a "Subject: MY SUBJECT" in the email header.
> 
> 5) If the email is html then also include a text version also. Not including
> a text version will up your spam score.
> 
> 6) A short email body will up your spam score.
> 
> 7) Non https images or links will up your spam score.
> 
> 8) add a spf txt record to your DNS. This is not a show stopper. See
> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-an-spf-record-to
> -prevent-spoofing-improve-e-mail-reliability for example. I am not vouching
> for this site it's just an example. Do a "spf txt record examples" search
> for more information.
> 
> There are on-line tools to test your spam score. Paste in the
> email(including headers) and see your score.
> 
> Before I did all this my X-AntiAbuse spam score was 12 out of 10. All my
> email was flagged as spam. By doing the above steps (sans the spf thingy) I
> lowered it to -0.3
> 
> I am not an email expert and I'm sure this score could be lowered even more
> with more header tweaking but this get my emails delivered and not put into
> junk mail folders.
> 
> I have done some major re-working of the example sendmail script. Let me
> know if you would like me to send you my updated version. You may have to
> change a few things to make it your own.
> 
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf
> Of Theresa
> Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2015 2:03 PM
> To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: help changing the From address when sending email
> 
> 
> 
> I'm creating an app that needs to send an email to the user. I've gone
> through the lesson about sending email through LiveCode Server here
> http://lessons.runrev.com/m/4070/l/8184-sending-emails-from-livecode-server-
> scripts
> and I get the email to send but no matter what I seem to do, I can't get the
> "from" address to be anything but my server account email. Is there
> something I'm missing? I've tried it using a variable and also just putting
> a straight email address in but I can't get it to change.
> 
> 
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