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1) Overview
Overview
In PracSuite there are some processes that will involve sending the user an email, such as:
Sending a 'Welcome Email' to new users.
Sending a 'Password Reset' email on request.
Triggering an email alerts or notifications.
These emails are sent from the PracSuite system and are typically from 'noreply@pracsuite.com'.
On occassion, these emails might not be received because your email address is on a Suppression List. This occurs if PracSuite has previously tried to send an email to that address, but it was rejected or bounced.
This is an important feature that protects the PracSuite domain and helps prevent emails from being marked as spam.
Why do emails get rejected or bounced?
The email address does not exist, or did not exist at the time.
e.g. The user is new to the business, and you have attempted to send them a 'Welcome Email' before their email address was ready for use.
The email address contains a spelling mistake or typo.
e.g. The user has been setup with a mistake in their email address, which prevents them from receiving a 'Welcome Email' or other notifications.
The recipient has blocked receiving emails from your PracSuite address:
The person receiving your message has previously marked your email as spam.
Your organisation has message filtering or spam policies that are blocking emails automatically.
Why does PracSuite need a suppression list?
When emails are sent via PracSuite they are using our 'PracSuite' domain (e.g. 'noreply@pracsuite.com.au'.
Each time an email is sent from the PracSuite domain and gets rejected or bounced, it lowers our Sender Reputation. It's important that we protect our sender reputation to ensure emails sent via PracSuite are less likely to be considered spam.
By adding emails to a suppression list when they are rejected or bounce, we prevent more users from sending to that same address in error and lowering our sender reputation.
How do I resolve this?
If you believe an email address is on our suppression list, you should:
Carefully check the spelling of the email address is correct.
If required, contact the recipient and confirm the email address is correct.
If you believe the email address is correct, try sending a test email to the address from outside of PracSuite (such as using your Outlook or Gmail account directly).
Ask the recipient to check their spam and junk mail folders for the missing email.
If you are certain the email address is valid, open a support case on our website with details of the email that is not being received.
If this is for a new user's welcome email, correct the email address on their user file if needed and resend the welcome email from the top of their profile. See Setting Up a PracSuite User Account.
This guide can be used to troubleshoot system messages not being received from PracSuite, which can sometimes occur when an email address is on our suppression list.
In other cases, the emails are being received correctly by your email provider however they are being moved to spam or quarantine. Our support team can help confirm if the email was received by your email provider, but we cannot assist in making changes to email security settings.