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Getting mail notifications with junk mail format (sdfsdfdfs@gmail.com)

By Bhaskar Chawda @bchawd1
    2020-11-27 10:42:50.439Z

    Hi Magnus,

    When there is a notification from talkyard we get email notification as some junk_chars@gmail.com ex: dGFsa3lhcmQ@gmail.com, is there any way to configure as somevalid_name@talkyard.com . Sometime emails are of kind dGFsa3lhcmQ@gmail.com give impression as spam mails. Please let us know is it possible to achieve above.

    Thanks and Regards,
    Bhaskar

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    1. KajMagnus @KajMagnus2020-11-29 23:03:58.104Z2020-11-29 23:14:21.368Z

      That sounds a bit surprising — Talkyard does this: apacheCommonsEmail.setFrom(fromAddress) and the fromAddress cannot really be missing because then Talkyard would have logged a "No talkyard.smtp.fromAddress configured." error and wouldn't send emails.

      There're only ASCII letters in the from address?

      What if you send the mail conf (e.g. the fromAddress config value) in a private message, with private things like password edited out? / replaced with sth else?

      You use Gmail currently as email service provider? Then I'm wondering if this is something Gmail specific.

      Mabye some more related SMTP property than just the "from" can be specified, hmm.

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      1. BBhaskar Chawda @bchawd1
          2020-11-30 11:22:33.742Z

          Hi,

          Yes there are only ASCII letters in the from address.

          No we don't use gmail as mail service provider. We used Azure AD(outlook). We have company mail server configured for handling mail traffic.
          Can you please elaborate the comment:
          What if you send the mail conf (e.g. the fromAddress config value) in a private message, with private things like password edited out? / replaced with sth else?

          Do you have any idea how to do settings for Azure AD(Outlook) to receive the proper mail?

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          1. KajMagnus @KajMagnus2020-12-01 16:40:24.661Z

            I meant if you copy the email configuration in /opt/talkyard/play-framework.conf, change hostnames to "example .com", e.g. the mail server address to "mailserver .example. com",
            and then send me a private message with that anonymous config, then I can have a look?

            Probably I won't see anything, just from looking at the config — but if I setup an Azure AD tenant and an Outlook address somehow, then I can use a similar config as you do.

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            we don't use gmail as mail service provider. We used Azure AD(outlook). We have company mail server configured for handling mail traffic.

            Ok, you you use Outlook for receiving emails?
            But there's no Azure AD Outlook related send-emails service?

            Instead, Talkyard connects to the company's mail server?
            Can I ask what mail server software does it run? (Maybe I could websearch for that, + Azure + Outlook)

            (There's no email serivice provided by Azure AD, similar to Amazon SES?)

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