[NetSIG] February changes to mass mailers

[Lynn Palmer]

Thanks, George.

We've been having all kinds of issues with sending to gmail accounts.  
They are looking to add DKIM and DMARC to DNS for us.


Lynn

Lynn Palmer
Senior Systems Administrator
Computer Science | University of Victoria
ECS 461  ext 5792 (250-472-5792)
lpalmer at uvic.ca

On 2/1/24 23:37, George Bowden wrote:
> Hi netsig
> Our computer club uses mailchimp to send out our monthly newsletter to 
> 300 recipients.
> We use cozyhost to host our website and mailserver
> Our domain name registrar for victoriacomputerclub.org 
> <http://victoriacomputerclub.org> is namecheap where we register 
> ns1.cozyhost.space <http://ns1.cozyhost.space> and ns2.cozyhost.space 
> <http://ns2.cozyhost.space> as "custom dns" nameservers
>
> We put events at victoriacomputerclub.org as the sending address in mailchimp
> This is a forwarding address without a mailbox, but my problem exists 
> even with newsletter at victoriacomputerclub.org that has a mailbox.
>
> Mailchimp gives detailed instructions
> In their article About Email Domain Authentication <About Email Domain 
> Authentication: https://eepurl.com/dyij4X>, Mailchimp says that google 
> now requires authentication  for those sending more than 5000 emails 
> in 24hours, but they dont say whether that number is for all emails 
> mailchimp sends from all their clients, or just from us.
>
> In Namecheap, trying to add cname records to our domain, in the 
> advanced DNS tab, for host records and for mail settings, it says 
> *"You can manage host records in your cPanel account, or transfer DNS 
> back to Namecheap BasicDNS to manage the records here. Change DNS Type 
> <https://ap.www.namecheap.com/Domains/DomainControlPanel/victoriacomputerclub.org/domain>" 
> *
>
> I don't see options in cPanel to add cname records, and I don't know 
> the side effects of transferring DNS back to Namecheap BasicDNS, which 
> might be the best solution.
>
> Advice or ideas?
> -- 
> George Bowden  250-893-7423
> Victoria BC
> No ChatGPT used
>
>
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