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On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Auto Protection Info |
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<papezulma@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>That looks like a mass mailer. Do you need to send thousands of emails |
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> No, but around 2000 emails a day maybe as maximum. |
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> I managed to configure correctly the relay, does anyone have a suggestion |
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> for a free SMTP relay service please? |
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Best of luck with that, but I'd be shocked if one exists. |
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Any SMTP relay that can actually get mail delivered to anybody needs |
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to ensure that their service isn't used to send spam, or they'll |
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quickly find that they can't get mail delivered to anybody. |
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If it is really easy to sign up with no identification and the service |
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is free/etc, then it is going to be almost impossible to keep spammers |
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from abusing the service. |
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If somebody is offering a free SMTP relay service I'd be surprised if |
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it has a poor reputation and the reality is that your mail is all |
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ending up in spam folders, if it gets delivered at all. |
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There are tons of services that are relatively inexpensive. They're |
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all going to make you pay by credit card and such so that it isn't |
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trivial to just burn through accounts. They'll have a TOS they're |
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going to hold you to as well. |
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I found Amazon SES really easy to set up, and it can work just fine as |
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an SMTP relay, but with the caveat that they only want you sending |
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mail "From" your own domains (and they're going to check that you |
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control those domains). They also have some limits on volume that you |
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need to contact them to raise. I have no idea what that involves. I |
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suspect it mostly involves somebody just making sure you seem to run |
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some kind of legit service. |
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Alas, all of this stuff is the price of spam. If somebody delivering |
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mail doesn't keep their service clear of spam they're going to end up |
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being blacklisted by the big service providers and they'll quickly go |
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out of business. And that is why SMTP relay is generally not free. |
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As long as you're legit it should be easy to set something up, just |
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don't expect to do it for free, and obviously don't expect to be able |
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to use it for spam... |
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Rich |
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