check your spam
Why the last couple of years has this been happening? Whenever i sign up to a Mir server it always goes to my Spam / Junk section. Never used to
check your spam
Why the last couple of years has this been happening? Whenever i sign up to a Mir server it always goes to my Spam / Junk section. Never used to
We get it asked quite a lot. Our own servers, we pretty much have protection up the wazzoo now - with people today being a lot more 'savvy' in general, and protection being much easier/reachable for all MX and mail servers it just simply pays to put as much protection on mail as we can. Literally a case of us (and other hosts/providers too i'd imagine) getting less hassle for false positives than letting spam through, contributed to by the rather 'knee-jerk' rules and protection laws put in by government over the last few years too.
There is so, so much spam being bounced around (in rough figures, our servers receive maybe 450,000 emails a day roughly. About 125000 of those are genuine or deemed to be). With that sort of quantity, pretty much all the work is automated, so false positives are much more likely. You'd think the opposite would be true, with protection methods becoming more sophisticated, but so is spam/spammers. You don't just have rules like 'Does it contain 'dildo?' any more.
Mir specifically? You'll often probably be hitting several triggers/flags. New email address not sent to you before? Check. Mail originating from a server/site script instead of human generated? Check. Domain name new/unranked? Check. Content considered higher risk ('activate now')? Check. And less likely, non-English words/phrasing mixed in ('Mir').
SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient(Config.MailServer, Config.MailPort)
{
EnableSsl = Config.MailUseSSL,
UseDefaultCredentials = false,
Credentials = new NetworkCredential(Config.MailAccount, Config.MailPassword),
};
MailMessage message = new MailMessage(new MailAddress(Config.MailFrom, Config.MailDisplayName), new MailAddress(account.EMailAddress))
{
Subject = "Zircon Account Activation",
IsBodyHtml = true,
Body = $"<!DOCTYPE html>" +
$"<body>" +
$"<p>" +
$"Dear {account.RealName}, <br><br>" +
$"Thank you for registering a Zircon account, before you can log in to the game, you are required to activate your account.<br><br>" +
$"To complete your registration and activate the account please visit the following link:<br>" +
$"<a href=\"{Config.WebCommandLink}?Type={ActivationCommand}&{ActivationKey}={account.ActivationKey}\">Click here to Activate</a><br><br>" +
$"If the above link does not work please use the following Activation Key when you next attempt to log in to your account<br>" +
$"Activation Key: {account.ActivationKey}<br><br>" +
(account.Referral != null ? $"You were referred by: {account.Referral.EMailAddress}<br><br>" : "") +
$"If you did not create this account and want to cancel the registration to delete this account please visit the following link:<br>" +
$"<a href=\"{Config.WebCommandLink}?Type={DeleteCommand}&{DeleteKey}={account.ActivationKey}\">Click here to Delete Account</a><br><br>" +
$"We'll see you in game<br>" +
$"<a href=\"http://www.zirconserver.com\">Zircon Server</a>" +
$"</p>" +
$"</body>" +
$"</html>"
};
client.Send(message);
Was just assuming you had a PHP mail script on the site that generated the mail out to be honest. Forgot that you had it built in to the client.
Well it's just sending mail via SMTP anyway, which is good. I can't see you've done anything different to what I'd do. It's a well reputed server, with correct setup (best practise).
Do you specify a 'from address' at all?
Can you generate one and send it to me? I'm downloading client now but I'm at home, so it's slow as buggery at the moment.
email routing from gmail and its going into spam? must not have something setup right in your DNS zones...
Quick check and your main issue is probably no SPF, you have something setup in TXT, but does G Suite use that?? No idea...
p.s when I signed up it never went into my junk mail folder..
Is there anything on my part that I can help reduce it?
I send mail via Google-Admin so not sure if that helps
As to the final product, I trust in Jamie's experience to create a balanced and fair server with longevity. Primarily sticking to the original content with a splash of creativity I feel is the right path - in terms of basic game mechanics, nothing radical is required.
Personally I hope the server has a x 8-16 exp rate. A compromise for higher and low rate users, that allows for longevity but also makes later game content seem less despairing.
Completely agree here, Marble had some amazing features and quality of life gameplay additions which i'm sure he will add here too .. the problem, in my eyes, was the creativity went too OTT, keep things simple here Jamie and it will go far - I've tested a little and it seems great so far
Disagree i'm afraid - exp should be low, official tables even better - most servers get this wrong, mir wasn't suppose to be rushed, we don't have the items or spells to accommodate for fast pace progress .. There are other ways to compromise for different users .. A great way of doing this is rested exp for logged out people
Don't screw with the exp table by adding high exp levelling areas, stick to the rule of;
higher exp = harder/sparce mobs/small chance of rare (eg 5%)/low pot drops
low exp = easy/lots mobs/small chance of rare (eg 1%)/high pot drops
Best bet would be to get rid of the forums and have a trouble ticket system that only Jamie can read. That way all comments/complaints/bugreports can go directly to Jamie and no more bandwagon "I want this" or "server is dying threads". Also hide the usercount , do not show any usercount at all. Better to leave User count to the imagination. At least thats what I would do.just hope the Mir2 players don't ruin the game with all there needs, since the discord channel is more or less all Mir2 players.
hopefully jamie puts them in there place.
And at the rate the exp is now, no matter how many things you could add, people will pop up and play a few hours, some a few days and then just move on
Best bet would be to get rid of the forums and have a trouble ticket system that only Jamie can read. That way all comments/complaints/bugreports can go directly to Jamie and no more bandwagon "I want this" or "server is dying threads". Also hide the usercount , do not show any usercount at all. Better to leave User count to the imagination. At least thats what I would do.
the server looks like it will be great but ZentaurX sounds great also with new classes
so people might have the best of both worlds mid rate and low rate even tho they are not the same files? don't think they are...
More options for players = Better for the Mir 3 community