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 >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > -- > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however > improbable, must be the truth." > --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >
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