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You explained it all Rich, thanks. I'm not using it for spam, the idea was |
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to make it easier for me to contact all my students at a time, so I think |
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this is not considered as spamming, but anyway, I'll check for Amazon |
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service see if it can do the job correctly and easily. |
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:42 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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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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> -- |
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> Rich |
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