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 10 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 10 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 10 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.