Shared hosts are very reluctant to allow bulk emails from their servers because the stakes are much higher than if you have a colo server where you are the only site on the box.
There exist servers that monitor email output from mail servers and if the volume of email changes rapidly, the mail server can be put on blacklists, which means that mail server cant send ANY email to AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, MSN, etc etc. This happened to us. I had a user sign up for hosting, I signed him up for a minimum size hosting plan, and went off to bed. By morning, he had sent 30,000 emails through the mail server, and our entire box was blacklisted. This means all of my sites, and any other sites on that box (could be as many as 50 sites) were all blacklisted, and emails couldn't be sent to the ISPs that subscribe to the blacklist service. The comment associated with our ban said that the volume of mail had increased by over 25,000 emails in a 24 hour period. If only one user was banned that would be bad enough, but we had dozens of sites banned, who had nothing at all to do with the action of this spammer. We deleted the site at 8am in the morning about the same time as we found out his credit card had bounced too. It took us weeks and a brand new mail server box on a new ip address to get ourselves unbanned. So that is why you'll find it difficult to get a shared hosting company to let you bulk email. There are too many potential spammers trying to stitch us up. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks Pty Ltd http://afpwebworks.com Full Scale ColdFusion hosting from A$15/month -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Tong - TalkWebSolutions.co.uk Sent: Monday, 13 November 2006 8:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CFCDEV] bulk emails Rackspace are very accommodating as long as they are optin. On 06/11/06, Dan Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick, > Thanks for the help. I just have a hard time beileving that their are not > any isp hosts out there that cater to this sort of need. I have been > searching for a couple days now with no luck. > > You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, please follow the instructions at http://www.cfczone.org/listserv.cfm CFCDev is supported by: Katapult Media, Inc. We are cool code geeks looking for fun projects to rock! www.katapultmedia.com An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
