On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:37:16 +1300 Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Holdoway wrote: > > I took time out to find how the site was set up, check dns was set up > > correctly and make suggestions on this, and offer simple, and imo more > > stylish solutions to your problems. > > > > Thanks? Don't mention it, eh? > > > > Sheesh. > > Hold up... the topic here is my request for a subcontractor to do some > php work. True. Remind me next time. From this email onwards I will no longer attempt to aid your business ventures for free. > > I never asked for any help with mail. > > I was asked why I didn't spec a simple mail form and I explained why. Yes it did evolve, didn't it, like a lot of threads in this group. I was responding to the points raised by that. > > I never said I wanted help fixing the problem with Xtra. I know what > the solution is to that problem - DON'T USE XTRA! That's your view. Fixing your mail configuration would probably be a simpler and more correct solution. Maybe that includes upgrading your servce provider. Whichever way you choose, I strongly disagree with your statements about Xtra, and feel that other readers of this group should hear the other side of the argument. Xtra's cock-ups on clients attempting to read their emails after the Yahoo!!! takeover are another topic entirely, although I personally side with view that the techie stuff was done fine, just the PR and communication being a complete farce. Like I said, my mail server, which is next to me on the end of an ADSL line, has no ( known! ) problems sending and receiving emails to/from all domains that I've tried. xtra is fine, that's for certain. The most important part ( unfortunately snipped from the email I'm replying to ) is that you route your outgoing emails through the smart server provided by your service provider ( in the case of sp's like godaddy, just finding it is a mammoth task! ); and, less important, finding a SP that has a good reputation on managing spammers - using RBL services like spamhaus is a good resource for this. It's not a perfect solution... as a company we ( as in my primary contract ) get blacklisted by the agressive RBLs like sorbs about once a year, and we sell anti-spam solutions!!! > > Some one made a comment about hosting in SG - I responded by explaining > why I host in SG. After a lot of investigation, I eventually found out that Tusker is the company that owns the SP that you use. Just in case anyone else was as confused is I was by this comment. > > Cheers Don Steve -- Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
