UPDATE: So it IS sending emails but they are all ending up in my Gmail spam folder....so I'm kinda back at square one with that and need to figure out how to keep that from happening, the obvious solution is using smtp rather than php which is what I'm doing now.
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Ok... so Google says they will kill access to/from less secure apps (email clients, other software, etc) this year. Keep that in mind... everything will have to be oAuth.
Now... as I stand today.
I have my own server, used to own American Web Host so I can usually figure out whatever. Today though, it's a real pain to keep an email server playing nice with the big boys, yahoo/hotmail/gmail, etc no matter what txt/spf/etc records or reputation...emails are constantly going to customer spam folders. And it just gets worse every year.
So... I've been migrating a few of our business domains email to Gsuite which has worked out well. I have an off road parts company and just did this for it but can't get emails sent from cs-cart. Obviously the web site (usoffroad.us) is hosted on my server and has DirectAdmin on it which makes things easy...setting up domain email elsewhere, fixing internal DNS etc etc.
But I'm not having any luck getting email from the usoffroad domain/cs-cart store to arrive at my gsuite/gmail inbox.
When I dig the MX for usoffroad.us it returns the correct records:
; <> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.68.rc1.el6_10.3 <> usoffroad.us mx ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 42663 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 0;; QUESTION SECTION:
;usoffroad.us. IN MX;; ANSWER SECTION:
usoffroad.us. 1800 IN MX 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
usoffroad.us. 1800 IN MX 10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com.
usoffroad.us. 1800 IN MX 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
usoffroad.us. 1800 IN MX 10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com.
usoffroad.us. 1800 IN MX 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
usoffroad.us. 86400 IN NS ns0.dnsmadeeasy.com.
usoffroad.us. 86400 IN NS ns2.dnsmadeeasy.com.
usoffroad.us. 86400 IN NS ns3.dnsmadeeasy.com.
usoffroad.us. 86400 IN NS ns1.dnsmadeeasy.com.
usoffroad.us. 86400 IN NS ns4.dnsmadeeasy.com.;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: 208.115.254.242#53(208.115.254.242)
;; WHEN: Wed Jan 29 11:23:11 2020
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 250
So the server isn't trying to send it to itself.
But.. if I want to try the whole gmail smtp debacle in CSC Settings... then that's a problem too.
What is the solution if I'm hosting my own domain with csc and sending out email through gsutie/gmail where my email for the same domain is hosted?