Re: Email service providers

2010-01-01 Thread Port Able
--- On Thu, 12/31/09, Jacqui Caren-home wrote: for a highly specific (distributed) low overhead delivery system designed to work within the (constantly changing) limitations specified by MSPs the changes postfix required would have ended up as a re-write to work with any decent performance. If M

Re: Email service providers

2009-12-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jacqui Caren-home put forth on 12/31/2009 5:28 PM: > I *know* other commercial MSP's (our competitors) also use custom > delivery subsystems although I think we are currently the only ones with > a distributed delivery system that uses active MSP delivery profiles > and MSP "delivery load balance"

Re: Email service providers

2009-12-31 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
LuKreme wrote: On 30-Dec-2009, at 11:43, Port Able wrote: Do the online ESP's develop their own email servers? Bwahahahahah! Um. No. Excuse me! A year or so ago we worked on a postfix mod to enable delivery rate limiting and active MSP profile management. It did not work as well as we hoped

Re: Email service providers

2009-12-31 Thread LuKreme
On 30-Dec-2009, at 12:20, Brian Mathis wrote: > I've not used mailmain or ezmlm for this purpose, but so called > "mailing list software" that's available as open source is often meant > to be used for having discussions with numerous people through email. > Using systems like that as a bulk mailer

Re: Email service providers

2009-12-31 Thread LuKreme
On 30-Dec-2009, at 11:43, Port Able wrote: > are: has anyone used Postfix for this purpose? Sure, lots of people. > Do the online ESP's develop their own email servers? Bwahahahahah! Um. No. > Do any of them use Sendmail, Postfix or quail? Almost certainly almost all of them use one of those.

Re: Email service providers

2009-12-30 Thread Jorge Armando Medina
Bryan Allen wrote: +-- | On 2009-12-30 10:43:48, Port Able wrote: | | I am currently consulting for a small retailer. They have been using | an online email service provider for the past few years to blast | personaliz

Re: Email service providers

2009-12-30 Thread Port Able
--- On Wed, 12/30/09, Bryan Allen wrote: [a lot of useful points] -- bda cyberpunk is dead. long live cyberpunk. This is very helpful information - thanks a bunch!  This gives me the confidence to go ahead to build a test environment based on Postfix. 

Re: Email service providers

2009-12-30 Thread Port Able
--- On Wed, 12/30/09, Stan Hoeppner wrote: You really should ask this question on spam-l.  There is an ESP discussion currently taking place.  Would be perfect timing. Far more important that the software platform you choose to do this is your deliverability.  Good ESPs know how to keep their cu

Re: Email service providers

2009-12-30 Thread Port Able
--- On Wed, 12/30/09, Eero Volotinen wrote: > Software such as mailman or ezmlm is more suited to mailing lists. > All such software can use Postfix to do the delivery. Well. usually people use sql+php style software for generating this kind of spam messages ;) -- Eero That is a good point. 

Re: Email service providers

2009-12-30 Thread Eero Volotinen
On 12/30/09 8:49 PM, Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: On 12/30/2009 1:43 PM, Port Able wrote: I am currently consulting for a small retailer. They have been using an online email service provider for the past few years to blast personalized emails to their customers (opt-in, and 100-200 thousa

Re: Email service providers

2009-12-30 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2009-12-30 10:43:48, Port Able wrote: | | I am currently consulting for a small retailer. They have been using | an online email service provider for the past few years to blast | personalized emails to their cus

Re: Email service providers

2009-12-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Port Able put forth on 12/30/2009 12:43 PM: > I am currently consulting for a small retailer. They have been using an > online email service provider for the past few years to blast > personalized emails to their customers (opt-in, and 100-200 thousand > emails at a time). They have asked me to s

Re: Email service providers

2009-12-30 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Port Able wrote: > I am currently consulting for a small retailer.  They have been using an > online email service provider for the past few years to blast personalized > emails to their customers (opt-in, and 100-200 thousand emails at a time). > They have asked m

Re: Email service providers

2009-12-30 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
On 12/30/2009 1:43 PM, Port Able wrote: > I am currently consulting for a small retailer. They have been using > an online email service provider for the past few years to blast > personalized emails to their customers (opt-in, and 100-200 thousand > emails at a time). They have asked me to see i

Re: Email service providers

2009-12-30 Thread Matt Hayes
On 12/30/2009 1:43 PM, Port Able wrote: > I am currently consulting for a small retailer. They have been using an > online email service provider for the past few years to blast > personalized emails to their customers (opt-in, and 100-200 thousand > emails at a time). They have asked me to see i

Email service providers

2009-12-30 Thread Port Able
I am currently consulting for a small retailer. They have been using an online email service provider for the past few years to blast personalized emails to their customers (opt-in, and 100-200 thousand emails at a time). They have asked me to see if we can install an email server in house to acc