On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:52 AM Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > > On 4/25/20 8:28 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > We talk about 20-40K emails per month. > > I believe that one would need a properly configured host > > with correcrty set up DNS, SPF, DKIM, etc etc to make many mail servers > > happy, as most people have no control over email whitelisting. > > And it has to be on a reasonably fast and reliable network, where you > > are able to ask admins to allow for an outgoing SMTP. > > (here goes "free", unless you are able to utilize resources of some > > organisation like a university or a company, or an non-profit > > like a Linux distributor, say. A dedicated server > > would still cost ~100$ per year at least, I guess, something we can > > afford, though) > > And it needs to be set up and maintained. > > > > Any volunteers for this job? Michael? > > > > 20-40k per month isn't much. SPF and reverse DNS are trivial to set up, > and you don't need DKIM. (That's not too hard either, but DKIM/DMARC > often just cause your messages to get rejected again.) > > If the Trac web server has a static IP, all you would need to do is > install an MTA on it and tell Trac to use the local sendmail command > instead of connecting to SendGrid over SMTP to send these messages. That > shouldn't cost anything extra if Trac is on a dedicated server, but I've > no idea how that is set up. If it can send mail, and if we can change > the PTR record for the IP, that's all we'd need.
Trac server is hosted on Google Compute Engine (or whatever it's called now), which disallows outgoing SMTP. (also, it seems that the IP may change over time). That's why we went with SendGrid as Trac was being moved our of UW hosting. > > The goal here is just to do better than servers that are on six > blacklists... it doesn't take a dedicated team of full-time experts to > do that. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/abb652b8-c25c-2ced-f9f8-f3d26e250ede%40orlitzky.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq0fRmKwtAG%2BHSn_7vXWjn_ghH4agY5TorPPoatfkmfiug%40mail.gmail.com.
