Re: [PLUG] large email volume for comcast user

[Julien Vehent <julien@linuxwall.info>]

On 2012-04-18 22:08, Eric at Lucii.org wrote:
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> A friend of mine runs a private email list so he sends an average of a 
> couple
> of dozen emails a day to several hundred people.  He's switching to 
> Comcast
> because his old ISP is going away.  Now he has discovered that Comcast 
> caps
> his outbound email to 1000 per day.  After that, the SMTP server just 
> stops
> responding.  They've told him that he can send more if he pays for a 
> business
> account but he's not willing to go that route since the list is more of a
> personal hobby than anything else.

Is comcast really going to count the number of SMTP connections he opens to 
other SMTP servers every months ? That seems silly.
Are you sure the outbound limit isn't just limited to comcast.com addresses 
?
I'm pretty sure that, if you run your own MTA, comcast's limit won't apply.

Or go Fios.

- Julien
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