[IMC-Tech] SMTP woes

[Zachary C. Miller]

I have updated postfix to use this new SMTP relay.

Sascha, please let me know if the mail sending problems you are seeing
go away.

I am amused that on the same day that insight's SMTP relay cut us off
for too much traffic, they told you that they had no traffic
limits. These people are terrible.

dan blah wrote:
> i have tcpserver set up to allow relay from our server only right now.
>  if this is what we need to do its just a simple change of our postfix
> relayhost to mail.electric-pickle.net (if i am understanding the
> problem correctly)...
> 
> just to verify we are allowed to send...
> blah at imsahp:~$ telnet mail.electric-pickle.net 25
> Trying 66.29.58.223...
> Connected to mail.electric-pickle.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 mail.electric-pickle.net ESMTP
> MAIL FROM: blah at chambana.net
> 250 ok
> RCPT TO: dan.blah at gmail.com
> 250 ok
> DATA
> 354 go ahead
> Subject: blah test
> 
> this is a test blah blah
> .
> 250 ok 1146016692 qp 73593
> QUIT
> 221 mail.electric-pickle.net
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> blah at imsahp:~$
> 
> On 4/25/06, dan blah <dan.blah at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Zachary C. Miller - @= - http://zach.chambana.net/
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> > >
> > > --
> > > Daniel
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Daniel
> >
> 
> 
> --
> Daniel
> 

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Zachary C. Miller - @= - http://zach.chambana.net/
IMSA 1995 - UIUC 2000 - Just Another Leftist Muppet - Ya Basta!
 Social Justice, Community, Nonviolence, Decentralization, Feminism,
 Sustainability, Responsibility, Diversity, Democracy, Ecology