Hello,

Would we be able to get an update on if the case with AWS solved this issue? It could be useful for other members of the community with a simulator setup.

Thanks,

Trevor

Hi Trevor

Yes, it was an AWS limit that would not let us send more than certain number of emails via their SMTP (we do have a bunch of stuff in AWS that also sends emails). I opened a case and requested limit increase and that fixed it.

Things that someone need to know the first time they are setting up SMTP in AWS:

1. every email address in From and To has to be "verified" by AWS.

2. you can only send 200 emails / day be default

3. In order to get rid of any of those 2 restriction you would have to agree to some terms of service (to ensure that one does not abuse this service for sending mass spam or fraud, etc.) and can request for the limit to be increased (or removed in case of forcing to send to verified emails only). I think they lift the limit of emails to 2000 per day if you  just ask, but I'm not 100% sure about their policies on that.

May I give some feedback on SolidCP UI design:

It would have been nice if there was a way to actually be able to set some default server email address in the interface.

Additionally those settings are very obscured and not obvious. Why are they not under the actual "settings" menu on the left? One would assume the server settings also includes the SolidCP settings.

Hello,

I have made a feature request in the tracker for a single default from address.

The reasons the templates are in their location is because they are not server wide and  can be overwritten by any reseller to their needs. They are able to adjust the From address along with what is contained in the template (So they can include their company info for example).

Thanks,

Trevor

Thanks for all the help and information.

For the SMTP email settings, maybe there can be at least a little line of text or link to inform/remind user that they should update the "From" field in the email templates as well. That little change will make a big difference for someone who is setting SolidCP up for the first time and will not need a significant change (if any) in the code or scripts.

Maybe that could speed things up without rocking the boat too much and get it into the next update 🙂