Why inbound emails to my Crisp Inbox are not received?
You may be using or trying to use the Crisp inbound emails / email inbox feature, without success. All messages to your Crisp inbox email address might not be received properly, or you may get weird SMTP errors when sending an email to your Crisp inbox.
Check each of the following points to find the reason why emails would not work:
The most common reason for emails not being received is that they might be marked as spam by Crisp anti-spam system. This system is used to protect your Crisp Inbox from being flooded by spammy conversations.
However, sometimes, it may treat regular emails as spam (we call this False Positives), or it may treat spam emails as "clean" email (we call this False Negatives).
You can try disabling the anti-spam system, to check emails get received without it:
Go to: https://app.crisp.chat
Go to your settings: click on the settings icon
Click on "Websites"
Pick your website
Go to "Chatbox & Emails settings"
Click on "Email settings"
Disable: "Filter junk emails (block them)"
Try again sending an email to your Crisp Inbox
After successfully configuring your Custom Email Domain, you may have made some DNS changes and either added an extraneous DNS MX record pointing to another email server, or removed the DNS MX record provided by Crisp.
You may attempt to re-configure your Custom Email Domain from scratch, by reseting it and configuring your previous email domain again. Check this help article.
You may be using an old, legacy email from a previous Crisp website, or another Crisp website. Thus, the email address you are trying to send emails to might point to the wrong Crisp Inbox.
In this case, we advise that you check your email is the correct one by following those steps:
Go to: https://app.crisp.chat
Go to your settings: click on the settings icon
Click on "Websites"
On your website, click on "Integrations"
In the popup that opens, click on "Email"
Compare your email with the one that shows in the popup
Check each of the following points to find the reason why emails would not work:
1. Emails are marked as spam
The most common reason for emails not being received is that they might be marked as spam by Crisp anti-spam system. This system is used to protect your Crisp Inbox from being flooded by spammy conversations.
However, sometimes, it may treat regular emails as spam (we call this False Positives), or it may treat spam emails as "clean" email (we call this False Negatives).
You can try disabling the anti-spam system, to check emails get received without it:
Go to: https://app.crisp.chat
Go to your settings: click on the settings icon
Click on "Websites"
Pick your website
Go to "Chatbox & Emails settings"
Click on "Email settings"
Disable: "Filter junk emails (block them)"
Try again sending an email to your Crisp Inbox
2. Your Custom Email Domain DNS has MX record issues
After successfully configuring your Custom Email Domain, you may have made some DNS changes and either added an extraneous DNS MX record pointing to another email server, or removed the DNS MX record provided by Crisp.
You may attempt to re-configure your Custom Email Domain from scratch, by reseting it and configuring your previous email domain again. Check this help article.
3. The email points to the wrong Crisp website
You may be using an old, legacy email from a previous Crisp website, or another Crisp website. Thus, the email address you are trying to send emails to might point to the wrong Crisp Inbox.
In this case, we advise that you check your email is the correct one by following those steps:
Go to: https://app.crisp.chat
Go to your settings: click on the settings icon
Click on "Websites"
On your website, click on "Integrations"
In the popup that opens, click on "Email"
Compare your email with the one that shows in the popup
Updated on: 13/06/2022
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