Infrastructure / OperationsFebruary 2016

Renaix – Email Alerts & Deliverability Fix

Diagnosed and resolved email deliverability for Renaix job alerts, ensuring recruiters and candidates reliably receive application and alert emails.

Technologies Used

SMTP / Email RoutingWordPressPHPDNS / MX
Renaix – Email Alerts & Deliverability Fix

Project Metrics

Architecture

Hardened SMTP routing + application notifications

Deployment

Live fix with audit of mailboxes and forwards

Integration

Job alert automation (candidate & recruiter)

Performance

Consistent delivery to team mailboxes

Compatibility

Works across office aliases

Challenges

  • Recruiters stopped receiving job e-alerts.
  • MX/alias rules were forwarding to a single mailbox inconsistently.
  • Needed to validate end-to-end delivery with test jobs.

Solutions

  • Traced SMTP routing and alias logic for office addresses.
  • Standardized alert triggers from WP admin/jobs board.
  • Ran live tests and verified each recruiter address.

Results

  • Restored dependable alert delivery.
  • Team regained visibility on candidate applications.
  • Documented mailbox routing for future changes.

“Hi, I've just heard back from the office. Mails to info@renaix.com and marketing@renaix are set up to go directly to paul@renaix.com but he hasn't received any for a long time. There's clearly something wrong here. Could you look into this…?”
Christine Bowles, Codeable comment (Feb 19, 2016)

Thread reference: “[New comment] WP admin/jobs board: create automated email to candidate and recruiter. Confirm current situation?” (opened from your inbox today)

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