Re: OT - massive newsletter

2007-09-19 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 19.09.07 12:07, mizzio wrote: > hello everybody, > > I apologize to ask an off-topic question, and feel free to point me to > any other resources on the net. > > I'm setting up an SMTP server (centos + qmail) on a dell quad core > machine for sending out a periodic newsletter (10 millions a mo

Re: OT - massive newsletter

2007-09-19 Thread Paolo Cravero
mizzio wrote: I'm setting up an SMTP server (centos + qmail) on a dell quad core machine for sending out a periodic newsletter (10 millions a month). In order to avoid any possible blacklisting problem, I'm looking for all the best practices. Right now I've set up: You need EXPLICIT authoriza

Re: OT - massive newsletter

2007-09-19 Thread mizzio
Thank you (very good reading). Would you suggest postfix then ? Thanks Maurizio On mer, 2007-09-19 at 12:30 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 19.09.07 12:07, mizzio wrote: > > hello everybody, > > > > I apologize to ask an off-topic question, and feel free to point me to > > any other

Re: OT - massive newsletter

2007-09-19 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* mizzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hello everybody, > > I apologize to ask an off-topic question, and feel free to point me to > any other resources on the net. > > I'm setting up an SMTP server (centos + qmail) on a dell quad core > machine for sending out a periodic newsletter (10 millions a month

Re: OT - massive newsletter

2007-09-19 Thread mizzio
thank you for the "good luck" :-) mizzio On mer, 2007-09-19 at 12:32 +0200, Paolo Cravero wrote: > mizzio wrote: > > > I'm setting up an SMTP server (centos + qmail) on a dell quad core > > machine for sending out a periodic newsletter (10 millions a month). > > > > In order to avoid any possi

RE: OT - massive newsletter

2007-09-19 Thread Randal, Phil
If you don't want to annoy a lot of people your spamming (oops, newsletter sending) software needs to deal with NDRs back from recipient's domains and either put their subscription on hold after a small number of failures or automatically cancel them. There's nothing worse than mailing lists which

Re: OT - massive newsletter

2007-09-19 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Randal, Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If you don't want to annoy a lot of people your spamming (oops, > newsletter sending) software needs to deal with NDRs back from > recipient's domains and either put their subscription on hold after a > small number of failures or automatically cancel them. >

Re: OT - massive newsletter

2007-09-19 Thread Kris Deugau
Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Randal, Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: If you don't want to annoy a lot of people your spamming (oops, newsletter sending) software needs to deal with NDRs back from recipient's domains and either put their subscription on hold after a small number of failures or automatical

Re: OT - massive newsletter

2007-09-19 Thread John D. Hardin
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, mizzio wrote: > I'm setting up an SMTP server (centos + qmail) on a dell quad core > machine for sending out a periodic newsletter (10 millions a > month). > > In order to avoid any possible blacklisting problem, I'm looking > for all the best practices. As others have said,

RE: OT - massive newsletter

2007-09-19 Thread Randal, Phil
Kris Deugau wrote: > Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: >> * Randal, Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> If you don't want to annoy a lot of people your spamming (oops, >>> newsletter sending) software needs to deal with NDRs back from >>> recipient's domains and either put their subscription on hold after >>> a sm

Re: OT - massive newsletter

2007-09-19 Thread hamann . w
>> >> * mizzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > hello everybody, >> > >> > I apologize to ask an off-topic question, and feel free to point me to >> > any other resources on the net. >> > >> > I'm setting up an SMTP server (centos + qmail) on a dell quad core >> > machine for sending out a periodic new

RE: OT - massive newsletter

2007-09-22 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:16 PM +0100 "Randal, Phil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you don't want to annoy a lot of people your spamming (oops, newsletter sending) software needs to deal with NDRs back from recipient's domains and either put their subscription on hold after a small

Re: OT - massive newsletter

2007-09-22 Thread mizzio
Thank you to everyone for the support. Maurizio On mer, 2007-09-19 at 08:17 -0700, John D. Hardin wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, mizzio wrote: > > > I'm setting up an SMTP server (centos + qmail) on a dell quad core > > machine for sending out a periodic newsletter (10 millions a > > month). > >

Re: OT - massive newsletter

2007-09-22 Thread Mick Pollard
> > > I'm setting up an SMTP server (centos + qmail) on a dell quad core > > > machine for sending out a periodic newsletter (10 millions a > > > month). > > > > > You might consider using mailing-list software such as mailman, which > > allows people to subscribe and unsubscribe and takes care

Re: OT - massive newsletter

2007-09-22 Thread Dave Koontz
If I might ask, where are you getting the list "SEED" addresses from? It's hard for me to imagine you have such a large number of users that have already requested information you have not configured to send yet. If this is a purchased list of addresses ... you may have some problems quickly. Re

Re: OT - massive newsletter

2007-09-22 Thread John D. Hardin
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Dave Koontz wrote: > If I might ask, where are you getting the list "SEED" addresses > from? It's hard for me to imagine you have such a large number of > users that have already requested information you have not > configured to send yet. If this is a purchased list of addr

Re: OT - massive newsletter

2007-09-23 Thread mizzio
The service is not new - it should be just moved to a new platform. cheers maurizio On sab, 2007-09-22 at 07:40 -0400, Dave Koontz wrote: > If I might ask, where are you getting the list "SEED" addresses from? > It's hard for me to imagine you have such a large number of users that > have alrea

Re: OT - massive newsletter

2007-09-23 Thread mouss
mizzio wrote: > hello everybody, > > I apologize to ask an off-topic question, and feel free to point me to > any other resources on the net. > > I'm setting up an SMTP server (centos + qmail) on a dell quad core > machine for sending out a periodic newsletter (10 millions a month). > > In order to

Re: OT - massive newsletter

2007-09-23 Thread mouss
Kris Deugau wrote: > Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: >> * Randal, Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> If you don't want to annoy a lot of people your spamming (oops, >>> newsletter sending) software needs to deal with NDRs back from >>> recipient's domains and either put their subscription on hold after a >>> sm

Re: OT - massive newsletter

2007-09-26 Thread mizzio
thanks again, very good and complete list of best practices ! cheers, maurizio On dom, 2007-09-23 at 22:53 +0200, mouss wrote: > think it is good in the case of mass mailers. > otherwise, "miscreants" may nuke your reputation. and if you send mail > to hotmail, you'd better have S