[IMC-Tech] SMTP woes

[dan blah]

from maillog seems to be working to me... its just a flood of msgs on
mail.ep (electric-pickle)
On 4/25/06, Zachary C. Miller <zach at chambana.net> wrote:
> 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.
> > > > >
> > > > > --
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> > > > --
> > > > Daniel
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Daniel
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> > 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
>


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Daniel