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posted by janrinok on Sunday October 23 2016, @03:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the over-to-you dept.

From 2 very Anonymous Cowards:

Two of us volunteer to manage a private website with about 700 members, constantly rotating in and out (they are mostly undergrad students). For this we use low cost webhosting and recently found out that the email account (same ISP & domain name) only allows 60 outgoing emails/hour. Thus when we want to email the whole membership (a couple of times per year) we are going to have to break the list into a dozen pieces.

It would be nicer if we could submit the whole list at once. We don't mind if the emails are sent "drip feed" with one going out every minute or so.

Anyone ever seen anything like this? I tried a few search strings and didn't find anything, but my Google-fu may be bad today.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by RamiK on Sunday October 23 2016, @06:41AM

    by RamiK (1813) on Sunday October 23 2016, @06:41AM (#417775)

    Many home users' IPs are blacklisted (https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx) and can't be used to run their own SMTPs.

    There's no easy way around it: You either own a server with a commercial static IP address that you can send messages from or you end up having to relay. And often enough, relaying means losing control over your From field.

    Personally, I relay incoming faxes with a raspi hylafax\postfix server to gmail\1&1 accounts (relayhost=[smtp.gmail.com]:587 or relayhost=[smtp.mail.com]:465) using the usual CA issued keys (smtp_use_tls=yes). To make things private*, I encrypt the actual messages with a personal PGP key-pair. However, it means I need to use a client (thunderbird) to read the messages.

    *so google \ GMX \ someone guessing my account password won't be able to go through my mail. I leave the "the phone company \ government is reading my fax" paranoia to someone who actually cares about it.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23 2016, @02:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23 2016, @02:23PM (#417849)

    > Many home users' IPs are blacklisted (https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx) and can't be used to run their own SMTPs.

    This.
    But not only that, even if you aren't officially blacklisted you may find yourself grey-listed such that the big email services will score your email as more likely to be spam. So if there is anything else about your message that bumps up the spam score you are much more likely to end up in the junk folder.

  • (Score: 2) by darkfeline on Sunday October 23 2016, @08:19PM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Sunday October 23 2016, @08:19PM (#417942) Homepage

    They said they're using cheap web hosting.

    DigitalOcean offers VPSs for $60 a year, and that's not the cheapest offering available. It can host a web server and SMTP server easily.

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    • (Score: 2, Informative) by speckled on Monday October 24 2016, @04:37AM

      by speckled (248) on Monday October 24 2016, @04:37AM (#418040)

      By far the cheapest VPS offer I know is ArubaCloud (1€ per month for 1GB RAM, 20GB SSD). I have two servers (Backup MX, VPN) there for a few months now, one in Italy and in Czech Republic, had no problems yet and, surprisingly, performance has also been great. Can't say anything about customer support, though.