Hi Paul, >> A 3rd alternative would be to create a webservice on a cheap hosted >> server and use this service to send your emails.
> You have to be careful about blacklists with this alternative: most likely, a > cheap > host has had lots of customers either purposely spamming, or with infected > machines > spamming. This gets noticed by the blacklisting services, and the entire > subnet > (which could be 65K ip addresses or more) gets listed. Then, your customers > have > recipients that never get their mail (because their ISP's mail server uses > the > blacklist to determine which mail to send to the bitbucket). I should have been more explicit - you don't need to use your web host's SMTP service (because of the problems you cite) - you can usually use an external SMTP service with your web host's email libraries. Malcolm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
