How long have you been using them?
Has it worked out well?
-RickG

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Josh
Luthman<[email protected]> wrote:
> I use Gmail for ISPs.  Minimal support.
>
> On 6/26/09, Robert West <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Email?  We don't need no stinkin' email!
>>
>> We gave up email hosting.  We were sending invoices via email and lots of
>> the customers were never getting them because they never used the email
>> address we gave them, they were mostly using Yahoo online!  The user
>> accounts were jammed packed of just junk mail and such because they never
>> grabbed mail from their box.  Well!  After some thought, we stopped giving
>> out email addresses and giving them a list of free email sites such as Gmail
>> and yahoo.  ("In an effort to keep our prices as friendly as we can.....
>> blah, blah, blah.....)  We grandfathered the existing users and hosted them
>> but eventually they all moved to the free providers also.  So now what?  No
>> more support calls on the email, I can tell ya that!  More than half of our
>> trouble tickets went away.  I no longer have to recite to grandma how to
>> reenter her user name and password just because the grandkids wiped it out
>> of her incredimail.  YES!!!
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
>> Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer
>> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 11:33 AM
>> To: WISPA General List
>> Subject: [WISPA] OT, pesky email stuff
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> What are you guys doing for email these days?  I LOVE my setup for it's
>> reliability, ease of use etc.
>>
>> Hacked customer accounts and virus's are killing me though.  We don't catch
>> things until 100,000s of messages go out and we get black listed.  This has
>> now happened 3 or 4 times in the last couple of years.
>>
>> My server admins aren't coming up with a solution to this other than to
>> limit cc's to 25 per message.  We did that once before and my phone rang off
>>
>> the hook because people can't send jokes to their friends.....
>>
>> The other thing that makes it hard is that the log files that I get (up to
>> 40 megs per day!) don't list the authenticated sender, only the reply
>> address.  So I see tens of thousands of messages from a user that's not even
>>
>> mine (faked info).  sigh
>>
>> We use Courier MTA.
>>
>> My thought is to set the server to allow a max of 1000 messages per day per
>> user.  And to somehow make the log file ONLY send me the number of messages
>> received per a user, and the number sent, user name and ip addy of all those
>>
>> sending.  Twice now I've asked about that idea and gotten no response from
>> the server admins.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> laters,
>> marlon
>>
>>
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