Re: [IMail Forum] Batch Sending

[Darin Cox]

Then you need to find a listserv like our Newsletter Manager or one of the others recommended here if you don't want to run the SMTP traffic through your mail servers. Darin.     ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeffery Rehm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Batch Sending This is the cable provider's SMTP server imposing the 50 email limit.  The cable provider forces customers to use their (cable company) SMTP servers, the same as Earthlink and others.  However, in doing so they also impose the 50 emails per session rule.  There may also be some daily limit, but haven't heard of one yet.   Alternate port SMTP through someone like DynDNS or No-IP isn't an option because they too have limits, although a little higher.  I have spoken to them and they are unwilling to make exceptions for legit business purposes.  The only option I can think of is sending the email in batches of 49 or 50, thereby not exceeding the 50 per session limit, or finding him a 'friend' that will allow him to use their own mail server as a relay.  I considered it, but would rather try solving the issue in his court first.       ----- Original Message ----- From: Darin Cox To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 11:05 Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Batch Sending Is it your IMail server, his, or the providers?  If it's yours or his, then the 50 limit is on your/his server, not the provider.   Perhaps a better solution to the port 25 issue would be to configure a router/firewall or server service to translate port 587 to 25, allowing him access via that port.  I haven't heard of any networks blocking 587.  Works great for our customers who have had this problem.   There has been discussion in the archives in the past 4-6 weeks about this port translation, including references to several free or cheap utilities that will do this if you can't configure a firewall/router to do so. Darin.     ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeffery Rehm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 10:42 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] Batch Sending Can IMail be configured to send emails in batches of say 50 through a relay host, or does anyone know of something that will?   I have a customer that has no choice of providers except a cable provider who recently started blocking port 25 to all SMTP servers except their own and restricts emails to 50 in one shot.  His thought was to simply upgrade to their business class service, but the only advantage of this was that they removed the port 25 block.  They would still restrict him to 50 emails.   It only becomes a problem when he does a broadcast message (price updates, etc.) to his customers, but he does this at least once a week to around 2000 customers.  This isn't spam, but mail to people that want his mailings and do business with him regularly.   For the extra $70 the cable company wants for the business class service, they shouldn't restrict anything, but in their infinite wisdom they deem it necessary to choke the hell out of business owners also.   Jeffery Rehm   Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this email and document(s) attached are for the exclusive use of the addressee and may contain confidential, privileged, or non-disclosable information. If the recipient of this message is not the addressee, such recipient is strictly prohibited from reading, photocopying, distributing, or otherwise using this message or its contents in any way.