[ale] OT volume email question

[Greg Freemyer]

Tim,

Are you running your own smtp server?

If so, it will be directly connecting to the smtp servers of all the
email recipients.  Your isp becomes nothing more than a pipe and as
long as they don't have you firewalled off from the rest of the world
it should not be an issue.

Be aware that if you trigger anti-spam software your direct connect
isp will be notified and you may find your service pulled.  In
addition, you may find yourself blacklisted.  A lot of smtp admins
have them setup to automatically dump any emails coming from a
blacklisted host.

I know this because we have had a couple of virus infected windows
boxes go crazy and start spaming the world.  We got blacklisted pretty
quickly and our whole company lost the ability to send emails via our
isps smtp server.

It only took a few hours to fix the first time, but repeated listings
get harder and harder to resolve.

Greg

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Tim Watts<timtw at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on an email campaign today and I have a question about doing this
> on a personal email account. For good reasons, gmail has a daily send limit.
> Does anyone know whether ISPs typically put similar limits on email accounts
> and in particular does earthlink? I can't locate a policy page on their site.
> How do organizations send out bulk email without getting flagged as spammers?
>
> BTW, I'm not trying to spam people. They have indicated an interest in getting
> messages from us we've just never sent anything out on a large scale before.
>
>
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