On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:24:00AM -0700, Andrew Rosolino wrote: > > I am not sure what the best way to go about this is. We run almost 200 > websites on one of our servers and each website has a quite large user base. > Usually 10-20 of the websites will send out mass e-mails but the problem is > Yahoo and other e-mail hosts don't like the volume being sent from the IP > address so they defer the messages. This creates a huge backup of thousands > of e-mails. I have about 10 unused IP addresses that I would like to > randomly be chosen to send the mass e-mail from. > > Is it possible to have the exim server randomly choose an IP address to send > its mail from?
The wrong solution, if they see lots of email they will still delay. I have a similar small Internet m/c that sends out ~300,000 emails/month, much of it mail lists (mailman). When I took on a list that accounts for 80% of the traffic I initially got delays on mail going to yahoo & google. If you chase round their web sites you can get some advice on what to do; the yahoo delayed message gives a URL (check your log files). Fill in a web form for bulk mailers (the yahoo one is a complete pain - IIRC) and it eventually gets better. I now (6 months on) have few problems sending to these hosts - the pain lasted about a month or so. I suspect that it helps if the mail being received are not marked as spam by the recipients - but have no evidence to back this assertion up. -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php Past chairman of UKUUG: http://www.ukuug.org/ #include <std_disclaimer.h> -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
