Rick, I guess you did not read my reply fully, it seems you got to the gpogle apps bit and just lost interest. It was one suggestion only, I did not say that was the only solution.
Regards Russ Michaels www.michaels.me.uk www.cfmldeveloper.com - Free CFML hosting for developers www.cfsearch.com - CF search engine On Apr 11, 2013 9:03 PM, "Rick Faircloth" <r...@whitestonemedia.com> wrote: > > And, Russ, I guess you're talking about MS Office Exchange Web App? > If so, that would be $4.00 per user per month. > > That would cost me about $400 per month. Whew! > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Russ Michaels [mailto:r...@michaels.me.uk] > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 3:30 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: Large amounts of CF email > > > I would still recommend sendgrid if the emails your clients send are > important and you want tracking and reporting and bounce processing to make > sure the mails reach their recipients. > You also need to consider spam blacklists,.do you regularly check them to > make sure your not listed? Do you want all the hassle of dealing with that > with your own smtp server? > If none of this matters to you and you ate happy to run your own smtp > server them smartermail free edition or hmailserver will do the job. Also > look at phplist as a mailing list manager. > As for hosting incoming mail, I would suggest using google apps or > office365, running your own mailserver can be a lot of work and.does > require intimate knowledge of dns, spf, spam, back scatter, dnsbl, loop > backs, spoofing, etc to do it properly, and google apps and office365 are > better than anything you can offer anyway, with bells on. > If you do decide to do it yourself then I suggest a separate server for > mail, unless your only doing smtp then what you have is fine for that qty > of mail. > Remember the more services you put on same server the more you create a > single point of failure that will take everything down in one go. > You could certainly take dns out of the equation, dns comes free with all > domain registrars, the main benefit to run your own dns is if you allow > your clients to manage it via a hosting control panel if you manage dns > manually then you.you can do the same via your registrar, or use a service > like nettica. > > Regards > Russ Michaels > www.michaels.me.uk > www.cfmldeveloper.com - Free CFML hosting for developers > www.cfsearch.com - CF search engine > On Apr 11, 2013 7:45 PM, "Michael Muller" <mich...@mullertech.com> wrote: > > > > > Hey all, > > > > Ok, so I'm all set on the question of SPF etc. Here's another one. > > > > I am taking on a client who has an existing CF application. It's one of > > those 30%-off coupon things. They have a dedicated server right now that > > holds CF/SQL/SmarterMail all on one box. They send out a little over > > 100,000 emails a month. > > > > My existing setup is two cloud-based servers at Enterhost: CF/DNS on > one, > > and SQL/SmarterMail/DNS on the other. I do not want to add the extra > email > > burden to my system. I already send out about 50,000 emails a month from > > about 170 websites, not including the POP personal / business emails of > 75 > > of those clients. > > > > The current concept is for me to get another server specifically for > their > > email delivery, and to move their app to my CF machine and their database > > to my SQL machine. With the extra email-only server I get SmarterMail, > > though I'm not sure that's the best tool for delivering large amounts of > > email from CF. > > > > I saw that Russ Michaels mentioned sendgrid.net in a post a couple days > > ago about CFMAIL dropping some emails. This client knows that their needs > > are going to grow beyond the 300,000 ($200/mo) limit in a short amount of > > time, and so that will turn into an expensive solution eventually. > > > > So, if I stick with the new cloud server just for this one client's email > > delivery... am I setting this up right? > > > > 1. Their app on my CF server with hard-coded SERVER (see 3. below) in all > > CFMAIL tags > > 2. Their DB on my SQL server > > 3. Their own SM server (see 1. above) > > > > Is there a better email delivery option from CF, and if so how would you > > integrate the two onto the on box so the customer can also get their own > > email at their domain? I'm curious for my own needs as well. > > > > Is there a better way to set up the boxes? > > > > I know this sounds like fundamental stuff, but I'd love any opinions > > people may want to volunteer (including "what are you crazy?!"). > > > > Thanks, > > > > MM > > > > > > > > > > Michael Muller -- (413) 320-5336 > > http://MontagueWebWorks.com > > > > ** Powered by ROCKETFUSION ** > > > > Information is not knowledge > > Knowledge is not wisdom > > > > Eschew Obfuscation > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:355390 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
