Email deliverability and BoardSpot
BoardSpot provides Admins with an easy interface in which to draft and send emails. BoardSpot does the work of delivering these emails to the recipient's email server, and BoardSpot provides Org-wide Admins with visibility into the emails that were sent from the portal.
Organization Admins alone can see the Email Report under Settings in the sidebar menu.
As a portal member, ALL emails you receive from BoardSpot will be legitimate information (meeting invitations, etc.). The BoardSpot company never sends you junk/spam emails. Please whitelist BoardSpot emails, which will help ensure you receive all communications.
Org admins can see the Email Report under Reports in the sidebar menu, which now includes the delivery status for each email sent from the portal since this feature was released, in May 2024.
"Delivered" means the recipient's email server (Google, Outlook, etc) accepted the email and has decided what to do with it - such as deliver to inbox, send it to spam folder, etc..
"Opened" means the recipient has opened the email at least once.
"Bounced" means the recipient's email server (Google, Outlook, etc) did not deliver the email. Common reasons an email bounces, include: the member's email address is incorrect/misspelled, the member has not yet accepted the portal invitation and set their password, the member has a spam or filter preventing delivery, the member has an email auto-responder turned on, the member has routing rules turned on that route the email out of their inbox, AND/OR the member's email host (the portion of their email address after the @) has set filters or firewalls that are preventing delivery.
"Sent" means the BoardSpot email server has sent this email to the recipient's email server. This status will update when the email is delivered, opened, or bounces.
"Rejected" means the BoardSpot email server has sent this email to the recipient's email server, but the recipient's email server rejected it. Usually this is because the email address is wrong/unknown.
Email is drafted in BoardSpot by Admin and sent.
BoardSpot saves the email details, which are listed in the Email Report (under "Settings" in the sidebar menu).
BoardSpot's email server accepts the email, and queues it for sending out.
The recipient's email server (Google, Outlook, etc) accepts the email. _Note: At this point the email is out of BoardSpot's hands, and we no longer have control of delivery._
Recipient's email server decides on the action to take with this email, such as delivery to the Inbox, filtering it to spam, etc..
Recipient's email server queues approved emails to be delivered to inboxes.
Recipient's inbox applies all filters, blocks, and forwarding rules according to the Settings they have created.
Incorrect/unauthenticated recipient email address.
Recipient marked past emails as spam.
The recipient's email server settings, firewalls, and/or spam filters.
Your organization's email hosting account is inactive or payment overdue.
Recipient can add BoardSpot.com to their Contact list.
Recipient can contact their email provider to understand the delivery decisions made for that email.
Recipient can check their personal inbox filter, blocking, and forwarding settings to see if emails are being rerouted.
Organization Admins alone can see the Email Report under Settings in the sidebar menu.
As a portal member, ALL emails you receive from BoardSpot will be legitimate information (meeting invitations, etc.). The BoardSpot company never sends you junk/spam emails. Please whitelist BoardSpot emails, which will help ensure you receive all communications.
Email delivery status:
Org admins can see the Email Report under Reports in the sidebar menu, which now includes the delivery status for each email sent from the portal since this feature was released, in May 2024.
"Delivered" means the recipient's email server (Google, Outlook, etc) accepted the email and has decided what to do with it - such as deliver to inbox, send it to spam folder, etc..
"Opened" means the recipient has opened the email at least once.
"Bounced" means the recipient's email server (Google, Outlook, etc) did not deliver the email. Common reasons an email bounces, include: the member's email address is incorrect/misspelled, the member has not yet accepted the portal invitation and set their password, the member has a spam or filter preventing delivery, the member has an email auto-responder turned on, the member has routing rules turned on that route the email out of their inbox, AND/OR the member's email host (the portion of their email address after the @) has set filters or firewalls that are preventing delivery.
"Sent" means the BoardSpot email server has sent this email to the recipient's email server. This status will update when the email is delivered, opened, or bounces.
"Rejected" means the BoardSpot email server has sent this email to the recipient's email server, but the recipient's email server rejected it. Usually this is because the email address is wrong/unknown.
The 7 steps an email takes from your BoardSpot portal to a recipient's inbox:
Email is drafted in BoardSpot by Admin and sent.
BoardSpot saves the email details, which are listed in the Email Report (under "Settings" in the sidebar menu).
BoardSpot's email server accepts the email, and queues it for sending out.
The recipient's email server (Google, Outlook, etc) accepts the email. _Note: At this point the email is out of BoardSpot's hands, and we no longer have control of delivery._
Recipient's email server decides on the action to take with this email, such as delivery to the Inbox, filtering it to spam, etc..
Recipient's email server queues approved emails to be delivered to inboxes.
Recipient's inbox applies all filters, blocks, and forwarding rules according to the Settings they have created.
Reasons an email may not be delivered to an inbox:
Incorrect/unauthenticated recipient email address.
Recipient marked past emails as spam.
The recipient's email server settings, firewalls, and/or spam filters.
Your organization's email hosting account is inactive or payment overdue.
Possible solutions if an email was not received:
Recipient can add BoardSpot.com to their Contact list.
Recipient can contact their email provider to understand the delivery decisions made for that email.
Recipient can check their personal inbox filter, blocking, and forwarding settings to see if emails are being rerouted.
Updated on: 19/06/2024
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