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NZyan Collaborator

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11 hours ago, Lindy said:

I'm moving this to peer to peer, but note, I'm in discussion with Sparkpost and it's likely we'll have direct integration soon.

Will this be IPBoard 4 only?

I'm running five IPB 3 boards and I depend heavily on bulk mailing via Mandrill.

Given the short time frame until end of April I have no chance to migrate all projects until then.

Andreas

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Lindy Grand Master

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4 hours ago, Andreas Jürgensen said:

Will this be IPBoard 4 only?

I'm running five IPB 3 boards and I depend heavily on bulk mailing via Mandrill.

Given the short time frame until end of April I have no chance to migrate all projects until then.

Andreas

Not likely. For IPB3, you can just use SMTP functions to ping out to Sparkpost, SES, Sendgrid, etc. For those that don't want to use Sparkpost in IPS4, you could do the same.

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On 3/4/2016 at 0:48 PM, opentype said:

That password looks a bit long. 

I ended up mixing up SparkPost and SendGrid, however, neither of them worked. I tried both and with correct API key. ;) Turns out a php file was disabled which was causing it. All working well now with SparkPost. ;)

On 3/6/2016 at 0:24 PM, The Old Man said:

Daft question but did you register with Sparkpost or Sendgrid? You have entered settings for Sparkpost, but mentioned SendGrid at the start of your post? That password seems way too long as OpenType mentioned.

I ended up mixing up SparkPost and SendGrid, however, neither of them worked. I tried both and with correct API key. ;) Turns out a php file was disabled which was causing it. All working well now with SparkPost. ;)

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20 hours ago, Lindy said:

Not likely. For IPB3, you can just use SMTP functions to ping out to Sparkpost, SES, Sendgrid, etc. For those that don't want to use Sparkpost in IPS4, you could do the same.

OK, understood. Another good reason to switch to IPS 4. If there was a working Classifieds solution...

SMTP is not a real option for me, bulk mail to one of my smaller communities (4,500 subscribers) took 4 hours via SMTP and Sparkpost.

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@Lindy when I try to use sparkpost for bulk mail I get a lot of errors... will this be fixed when you guys finish the integration?

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250-momentum3.platform1.us-west-2.aws.cl.messagesystems.com says EHLO to 158.69.194.158:56102
250-8BITMIME
250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-STARTTLS
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250 PIPELINING
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220 2.0.0 continue
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250-momentum3.platform1.us-west-2.aws.cl.messagesystems.com says EHLO to 158.69.194.158:56102
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
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250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
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334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
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235 2.0.0 Authed. Go on.
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I wonder what the benefit is with Sparkfire etc intergration into IPS4, as opposed to just using the SMTP Relay details as we're doing now? I've  read about SMTP slowing down IPS when emails are sent out, is that the main reason or is it for better reporting/logging/deliverability etc?

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On 3/8/2016 at 3:45 PM, The Old Man said:

I wonder what the benefit is with Sparkfire etc intergration into IPS4, as opposed to just using the SMTP Relay details as we're doing now? I've  read about SMTP slowing down IPS when emails are sent out, is that the main reason or is it for better reporting/logging/deliverability etc?

Short term, that's probably it, but in the longer term Lindy (or someone else on the staff here?) has mentioned that they are considering adding things like bounce detection, like what the Mandrill Bouncer app does now. 

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Just had my sparkpost account disabled today. My reputation in mandrill was something like 99.3%. Sparkpost I had a rejection rate of like 30% today and over the last few weeks of > 15%. Followed their guides and had my domain totally verified with dkim and spf. Haven't been doing anything other than board transactional e-mails. Not really sure wtf.

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2 hours ago, PacmanDo said:

Any movement here?

No, but it's my fault - SparkPost was responsive, I just need to get in touch with them and iron something out. I haven't had the opportunity to do so, but will follow-up next week. 

 

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On March 30, 2016 at 11:25 AM, PacmanDo said:

@Lindy, Mandrill ends as it was on April 26th. It would be nice to have a replacement integrated before that happens. What are the plans please?

Sparkpost integration is complete and will be in the next release.

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IPS Community Suite 4.1.11

In Development

Key Changes

In addition to bug fixes and performance improvements, this release includes following new/changed features:

  • Sparkpost replaces Mandrill for optional email service
  • Recaptcha style is now a per-theme setting
  • Ability to sort Question and Answer forums by votes on the question
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