[IMC-Tech] SMTP woes

[dan blah]

this will be if insight doesnt have a higher class relay...

On 4/25/06, dan blah <dan.blah at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>
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> Daniel
>


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Daniel