I'm not surprised that aws would be blocked by Google. My servers have been attacked my compromised aws servers almost daily. I can imagine the amount of spam coming out of them. Google and live will block whole subnets if it's really bad.
It seems like you could use a low dollar VPS and have shell access to a server. Jason Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 19, 2015, at 1:16 PM, Victor Odhner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, All. > > I'm tentatively looking for a reliable host for a single low-volume email > account, to use as a bounce return for occasional batch email. The number of > bounces would be low, and it would be a receive-only mailbox, so volume would > be almost zero and there'd be no concern for backups, etc., but the system > would have to have good availability. I'd pay a token amount for the hosting > if needed. > > The Problem: > > Currently our emails are on Google Apps, but Google doesn't accept our > Fetch-Bounces connections for some reason. The fetch process is on Amazon > AWS. The bounces account does not show any "suspicious activity" so I don't > know what Google's problem is with the fetch-bounces process trying to log > in, but it's not authenticating. I saw one reference online to AWS being > blocked by Google. Our provider doesn't let me have shell access on the > hosting system, but he may have a trick or two before giving up. > > If that fails, I think maybe if would be simpler just to host the bounce box > somewhere less "complicated" than Google, so that's what this trial balloon > is about. > > My customer: > > Phoenix Allies for Community Health (PACH) runs a free primary-care clinic in > downtown Phoenix, serving people who have no access to primary care. (See > azpach.org.) My son is co-founder so I got volunteered to maintain their > volunteer database, and CiviCRM was my choice. > > My provider is CiviDesk.com (Denver based). The owner is a CiviCRM developer > and provides paid services to non-profits that use this free CRM software. He > supports some low-budget organizations for free who serve under-served > populations. > > Thanks, > > Victor Odhner > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
