[IMC-Tech] SMTP woes

[dan blah]

this is something we could host elsewhere... i could set up a reley on
our pickle mail server.

On 4/25/06, Zachary C. Miller <zach at chambana.net> wrote:
> I have added this line to our postfix config:
>
> relayhost = [mail.insightbb.com]
>
> Theoretically this means that our email should now get past that black
> hole list.
>
> But there's another problem. We now can only send TWO (2) outgoing
> emails at a time.
>
> (host mail.insightbb.com[63.240.76.151] refused to talk to me: 450 12.221.92.161 has too many connections ( 2 ) on sccimhc91)
>
> The mail queue is slowly emptying out but during a higher traffic time
> like during the day, our users might send emails faster than this
> limitted server will allow and we'll get emails piling up and terribly
> delayed.
>
> If there is a "business class" Insight SMTP relay that we can use
> instead of the general Insight one that I used above, someone please
> let me know.
>
> This is going to destroy us on the first of the month. So I guess I
> will finally really have to turn off the password reminders even
> though anti-spam guidelines say that we should send those out (it may
> be grounds for us ending up on a different blackhole list if we don't
> send them).
>
> We REALLY need to get a static IP address. A static IP address that is
> registered as such in WHOIS and with a provider that gives us proper
> reverse DNS entries. This is the only way to ensure that all our mail
> will go through and that it won't be bottlenecked by someone eleses
> server.
>
> I really think that even as we're negotiating with Insight, we need to
> be looking at other more professional truely-business-oriented
> providers. As I've said before, if we went with Speakeasy this would
> all be a no-brainer.
>
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Daniel