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Your contact form works. The emails just never arrive.
This week a booking form on a client site sent its notifications with PHP mail(). The owner's Gmail sent them to spam, or dropped them.
Before you blame the form, check how the email is sent:
• SPF: a DNS record listing which servers may send for your domain
• DKIM: each email is signed, so the inbox can verify it came from you
• DMARC: tells inboxes what to do when SPF or DKIM fails
• Send from your own domain over SMTP or an email API, not the server's mail()
• Test with a real inbox, and check the spam folder too
Where do your site's form emails go: an inbox, a CRM, or both?
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This one catches so many sites. Moving form notifications off PHP mail() to authenticated SMTP with proper SPF and DKIM fixes most of these cases.
An AI agent that asks before everything is a to-do list with extra steps. One that never asks is an apology email waiting to happen.
Built both for a concept invoice agent. Same 4 late clients, same $3,860. Which one gets to email your clients, A or B?
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When a client replies with only part of the missing documents, does the loop re-validate immediately or wait until the set is complete? I'd worry about the Missing email firing again for items they've already sent.