Recent Posts by Chris Powell

Topic: Brightbox Help / ActionMailer, postfix and TLS

Ian

I had this problem upgrading to Rails 3. The solution was to do…

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings[:enable_starttls_auto] = false

This sounds similar to your fix, but didn’t require delving into postfix config files. I believe this used to be the default setting for this parameter, but I have no idea why the default was changed or what it means. I was just happy to get email sending again!

Chris.

Topic: Brightbox Help / SPF Records

Thanks John. I should have googled the karoo.kcom.com address before bothering you as it turns out it belongs to my development ISP, so I obviously managed to run some of my tests in development mode by accident, further confused by the email replies arriving late and out of order. Yes, I’m an idiot.

Chris.

Topic: Brightbox Help / SPF Records

Morning…

I have been trying to set up an SPF record on my domain for sending email through the Brightbox SMTP relay as explained in the Wiki:

v=spf1 a mx a:smtp-senders.brightbox.net -all

I sent messages to check-auth@verifier.port25.com and some pass and some fail. On the failed ones I am told that the message has been sent through smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (212.50.160.34). The recommendation is that I change my SPF record to:

v=spf1 a mx a:smtp-senders.brightbox.net a:smtpout.karoo.kcom.com -all

Is that the correct thing to do, or am I doing something else wrong? Does the senders list need updating?

Thank you!
Chris

Topic: General Discussion / How to implement recurring billing?

I’m working on a couple of sites which I hope to sell on a monthly subscription basis. I’m looking at Active Merchant and PayPal Website Payments Pro (UK) as a possible way forward, although I don’t think Active Merchant handles PayPal recurring payments…? Anyway, any advice about the easiest (and cheapest?) way to handle subscriptions here in the UK would be most welcome.

Or I suppose I could just have a PayPal Donate button and hope for the best!

Chris.