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Mathew O'Hare

Still Finding My Feet

I'm still learning who does what here in Belfast. *chuckle* 

Who do people here use for outbound SMTP servers?  My client has been sending its bulk emails out on its own servers, and they have been crumbling under the weight.  I contacted our web host, and they seemed to want to sell us all these other services in addition to simply using the server.  Any ideas?

Published Aug 15 2007, 10:19 by mattohare
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paulanthony said:

I would suggest either get a dedicated server in, or outsource the email bulk through campaignmanager.com, or a local outfit such as Ion Technologies.

August 16, 2007 11:28
 

paulanthony said:

Sorry make that www.campaignmonitor.com

August 16, 2007 11:29
 

Mark R said:

We use ION's subscribe software to do all our mailings and the service is excellant and their team are always very helpful when we have any problems.

August 21, 2007 10:37
 

the King said:

c'mere fairy... time for spankin'!

August 22, 2007 3:14
 

ak said:

ebil ha><0r!

<script>

 alert('w00t!');

</script>

August 22, 2007 3:17
 

ak said:

I'm am innocent, I did not perform such a ha><0r attempt!

August 22, 2007 3:22
 

kry0 said:

earth.tree.branch.leaf.tip[snip.snap.honk.w00t].part.one.section.a

August 22, 2007 3:26
 

ak said:

u all look very similiar from your pictures

August 22, 2007 3:27
 

Damien McGivern said:

Apart from the fact that the volume can cripple your server, one issue with using you own server as a SMTP server to send bulk emails is that the probability of you being put on a spam list increases, even is your intentions are good. Previously we've (NIMTUG) been placed on spam lists but this was due to the fact that we had shared hosting and the other hosts were to blame but another issue that most people don’t realise is that some email providers such as yahoo and hotmail only allow a certain amount of emails within a given time fame from the same IP address unless you pay them to be on their white list.  So the emails just don’t get through. This is one of their anti-spam techniques which plays into the hands of companies that offer mass email sending services as their high email throughput can justify paying these additional costs. If you find a good solution please let me know.

August 25, 2007 1:14

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I've been working databases since the 70s. The early ones were on paper, mind. Started working with them in the 80s on computers. This has been the design of the database structures and the user interface to go along with them.
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