Trac verification email

[irtusb]

Through the years it has been a common thing to see new users reports on IRC about not getting the verification email when registering to Trac.

I blame some spam filters who can just delete the message before going to inbox.

In order to check what reasons may have a spam filter to do this I ran a simple mail sending test using an online tool and got the following report:

• ​https://www.mail-tester.com/web-wpvr2

In summary report notices:

• Missing Message-Id: header
• Your message is not signed with DKIM
• You do not have a DMARC record
• There is no html version of your message
• Your message does not contain a List-Unsubscribe header

[irtusb]

related #12947

[irtusb]

oh well, link is broken, that site doesn't keep log for long

[waddlesplash]

We now score 8.4/10. Here's what it says:

 Your message is not signed with DKIM
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a method for associating a domain name to an email message, thereby allowing a person, role, or organization to claim some responsibility for the message.
You do not have a DMARC record
A DMARC policy allows a sender to indicate that their emails are protected by SPF and/or DKIM, and give instruction if neither of those authentication methods passes. Please be sure you have a DKIM and SPF set before using DMARC.

You do not have a DMARC record, please add a TXT record to your domain _dmarc.haiku-os.org with the following value:

v=DMARC1; p=none

Verification details:

    mail-tester.com; dmarc=none header.from=haiku-os.org
    From Domain: haiku-os.org
    DKIM Domain: 

Your server 62.210.188.85 is successfully associated with walter.haiku-os.org

[pulkomandy]

Still happening, I had to manually validate user "elwood" (mail provider: sfr.fr, in case it matters).

For reference the procedure to manually validate an user:

• Go to trac Admin Accounts/Users page
• Find and click the user in the list
• Change their email to something else
• Change the email back and click "skip verification email"

But it would be nice to fix this as I can only wonder how many users gave up on creating an account because of this.

[vazub]

Still happening. Thankfully, the friendly admin sent me the token directly. ​https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/trac-account-email-verification-doesnt-get-delivered-to-outlook-com/10437

[waddlesplash]

Our current score is 8.3/10. The two things it lists now:

-0.14		MISSING_MID		Missing Message-Id: header

Your message is not signed with DKIM
You do not have a DMARC record

It appears we do have a SPF record but not a DMARC record. I'm also not sure why we aren't sending Message-Ids. Those both seem like they should be fixed at the system administration level.

[Coldfirex]

DMARC is usually very simple to get started if anyone needs help.