Re: [PLUG] large email volume for comcast user

[Fred Stluka <fred@bristle.com>]

On 4/19/12 6:58 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> If he runs his own MTA from a consumer IP range most of the big ISPs
> are going to block his email.  I don't like that, but there isn't much
> to be done about it.  The fact is that for every person like one of us
> that wants to run his own MTA there are 100k infected windows machines
> on some botnet sending out spam at full throttle.
Right.  Have to get a better IP.  I host my server at Amazon AWS, using
one of their "elastic" IP addresses, and registered with them as "yes, I
am intentionally sending outgoing e-mail, but I promise I am not
spamming", so they defend the reputation of my IP address with the RBL
lists.


> Plus, some ISPs block outgoing connections to port 25.
Right. Comcast may divert all such traffic to their own SMTP server.


> I'd consider Amazon's AWS Email Service:
> http://aws.amazon.com/ses/
>
> Looks like they charge a dime per 1k emails.  They also have multiple
> APIs you can use which means that you could get around outgoing SMTP
> blocks.  I haven't used them, but do use other AWS services and in
> general they tend to work well.
+1 for AWS services.  I haven't tried their SES because I run an SMTP
server on my virtual Linux box hosts on their EC2 (Elastic Compute
Cloud).

--Fred
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