Check out http://postmarkapp.com. Depending on the volume of mail you need to send, it's either pretty cheap, or worth it for their tracking tools.
Dave On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Brook Davies <cft...@logiforms.com> wrote: > > This a bit OT. I just wanted to share what I'd found, in case anyone else is > considering moving to the cloud. Its certainly attractive, and being able to > spin up a new server from an image configured with webserver, CF, OS and > your website files in under 5 minutes is pretty cool. > > > > Just keep one thing in mind. Sending email from the cloud (at least from > Amazons) is problematic at best. The IP's (Elastic IP's), that we were > assigned we're already in the SpamHaus database and other RBLs. And we NSI > wouldn't let us set up a cname record with those IPs. > > > > There *are* procedures to get your IP's removed/whitelisted but I don't > think you can count on this since there are so many blacklists and your > sharing an IP range, so your neighbour could get you in trouble again in the > future. > > > > For me, I can't risk emails not getting delivered (new user account > registrations, password reminders, notifications, campaigns - all of em), so > the solution is to maintain an SMTP server at a co-lo or dedicated server > location that you can trust to do your mail sending. Or use an outsourced > email (smtpauth.com,jangosmtp.com) service. You can also set up a VPC with > your existing hardware from the cloud and 'talk' to it like it was on your > local network. > > > > Anyhow, I just wanted to put this out there. I was stoked to move to the > cloud, and this threw a bit of a wrench in the idea, since having to > maintain a server somewhere for sending email is kinda of a pain in the > butt. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339394 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
