My bank write to me regularly suggesting I sign up for email notification of when my statement is available to view online. I did sign up years ago and have phoned several times to remind them, and also point out that I do in fact get email notifications. Problem seems to be whatever system they use to check email has gone doesn't recognise my personal address as valid so even though they can and do send to it they don't know they have.
Back in my techie writing days I wrote a few pieces about technical debt and banks seem to be the worst. They were early into computerisation when most people thought an electric calculator was pretty hot but ever since they've been bolting on extra features and adding bells and whistles while the underlying systems are held together with sticky tape.
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On 19/10/2021 19:24, mick wrote:
On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:41:58 +0100 Mark Rogers mark@more-solutions.co.uk allegedly wrote:
Several family members have domains (mostly at 123-Reg) and use email forwarding for xxx@<their domain> to their personal addresses (eg at Gmail, Virgin, BT, whatever).
Increasingly they're finding that mail sent *from* their domain addresses is ending in recipient junk folders.
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Mark
It is becoming increasingly difficult to /successfully/ send mail from a personal domain, particularly when that domain is not recognised as pne of the big email providers. (I speak as someone who runs his own mail server, and has done for well over a decade, and is becoming increasingly exasperated by the hoops I have to go through to get mail delivered. It is almost as if there were some global conspiracy aimed aat stopping anyone other than a major ISP being allowed to send email. Paranoid? Me?)
The most important record is the SPF txt record in the DNS, followed by a DKIM record, then DMARC. I sucessfully get by with a simple SPF record because I send FROM the MX server for my domains and I have good DKIM records for each domain. I have no DMARC records, but I may have to in future. Things can get complicated if you send mail from a server other than one on your own domain (say google) because you have to tell the world that their server is allowed to send on your behalf. Google has a good explanation of how to set up SPF if you use them to send at https://support.google.com/a/answer/10684623?hl=en and digitalocean also has very similar advice at (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-spf-record-...
Mick
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