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  • Due to recent DMARC changes, iThemes email notifications are bouncing. AOL, Gmail, and others no longer allow emails that claim they’re from user@aol.com (or user@gmail.com) when they’re actually sent through some other medium (in this case, WordPress). So, since the iThemes emails are sent “from” the admin user, if the admin user’s email is @aol.com or @gmail.com, they’re undeliverable. To fix this, emails could be sent from, say, wordpress@yourwebsitedomain.com, or let the user choose the send-from email address.

    Here’s a copy of the bounce message:

    A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
    recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

    otissing@aol.com
    SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data:
    host mailin-04.mx.aol.com [64.12.88.132]: 521 5.2.1 :
    (DMARC) This message failed DMARC Evaluation for an AOL Domain. For more information please visit http://postmaster-blog.aol.com/2014/04/22/aol-mail-updates-dmarc-policy-to-reject/

    —— This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ——

    Return-path: <kennywei@advanced975.inmotionhosting.com>
    Received: from kennywei by advanced975.inmotionhosting.com with local (Exim 4.82)
    (envelope-from <kennywei@advanced975.inmotionhosting.com>)
    id 1XVlnu-0007×2-Im
    for otissing@aol.com; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:24:10 -0700
    To: otissing@aol.com
    Subject: [http://kennyweissberg.com] Daily Security Digest
    X-PHP-Script: kennyweissberg.com/wp-cron.php for 173.247.245.179
    Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:24:10 +0000
    From: Kenny Weissberg <otissing@aol.com>
    Message-ID: <2565a96a7dd0ba60c9873f24f1333538@kennyweissberg.com>
    X-Priority: 3
    X-Mailer: PHPMailer 5.2.7 (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/)
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
    X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=

    <p>Dear Site Admin,</p><p>The following is a summary of security related activity on your site. For details please visit the security logs</p><p>Lockouts: There has been 1 host locked out.</p><p>This email was generated automatically by iThemes Security</p><p>To change your email preferences please visit the plugin settings.</p>

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/

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