Establish working email addresses for feedback hyperlinks

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Establish working email addresses for feedback hyperlinks #57

Closed jimallman closed 9 years ago

jimallman commented 9 years ago

The FCDB site currently uses contact@calibrations.palaeo-electronica.org as the email recipient in several mailto: hyperlinks. This should be enabled (or replaced with a real working email address) before launch.

I've sent a test message to this address, which was rejected with this result:

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

    contact@calibrations.palaeo-electronica.org

Technical details of permanent failure: 
DNS Error: Address resolution of calibrations.palaeo-electronica.org. failed: Domain name not found

FYI, here are the current mailto: links on the site:

In the site's header: Contact Us
The link above is repeated on the site's About page and again in the FAQ.
The calibration display page has a Comment on this calibration link, which has a dynamic subject line based on the current calibration.

jimallman commented 9 years ago

In reviewing past email on this topic, @pdpolly mentioned that e-mail addresses associated with palaeo-electronica.org are managed through the PalAss server.

So it sounds like we can set up the MX records (email handling) for a new domain to point to this server. We'll need a little help from PalAss in any case, but it shouldn't be a major obstacle to set up a couple of mailboxes in the domain of your choosing.

One possible simplification would be to use calibrations@palaeo-electronica.org for feedback instead of contact@calibrations.palaeo-electronica.org. This would use the existing domain, and it's shorter besides.

pdpolly commented 9 years ago

I'll check with Mark Sutton about whether such an address has already been created....

Ksepka commented 9 years ago

I just tried sending a test email using the "Comment on this Calibration" and "Contact Us" links. Both attempt to send the message to:

contact@calibrations.palaeo-electronica.org

My gmail account reported:

DNS Error: Address resolution of calibrations.palaeo-electronica.org. failed: Domain name not found

I was under the impression we had fixed this - now I am not sure whether the address is misformed or something else is wrong.

pdpolly commented 9 years ago

The address needs to be corrected to "calibrations@palaeo-electronica.org". I think that address is now functioning and mapped to dan's address.

On 8 Jan 2015, at 3:38 PM, Ksepka notifications@github.com wrote:

I just tried sending a test email using the "Comment on this Calibration" and "Contact Us" links. Both attempt to send the message to:

contact@calibrations.palaeo-electronica.org mailto:contact@calibrations.palaeo-electronica.org My gmail account reported:

DNS Error: Address resolution of calibrations.palaeo-electronica.org. failed: Domain name not found

I was under the impression we had fixed this - now I am not sure whether the address is misformed or something else is wrong.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/NESCent/FossilCalibrations/issues/57#issuecomment-69245064.