[TriLUG] [Novalug] bulk email - gmail

[John Franklin via TriLUG]

I’ve had other issues with mail from one of the less-than-a-pizza-a-month hosting services.  IIRC, there was no way to set up DKIM, or set up SPF in a sane way, or something like that, and as a result a lot of mail was bouncing.  This was mail from a Drupal 7 site, so we installed the SMTP Auth module and used it to connect to our primary mail server, where we could auth as a real user that was just a service account (webbot at example.org or something like that) and send all email that way.

A different client had a cloud VM for sending their bulk subscription mail, personalized per subscriber [1], and with a volume of a few thousand done in a big batch once a week.  The biggest problem we had there was about PTR records.  At this hosting provider, we could set the IPv4 PTR record for reverse DNS, but not the IPv6 one.  GMail, including business accounts hosted at GMail, would not accept the mail if we sent via IPv6, so we set up Postfix to only send to GMail via “legacy” IP.

A cheap cloud VM can handle tons of mail.

jf
[1] 100% legit subscriber.  As in, they pay for the content in the email.

> On Mar 27, 2018, at 10:08 AM, Howard via Novalug <novalug at firemountain.net> wrote:
> 
> We have had similar problems. Our acct is with Bluehost which uses this smpt:
> 
> ouracct123.prod.phx3.secureserver.net
> 
> There was a daily limit which I called and was able to have increased.
> We still had some bounces.
> 
> Then the person sending mail removed all links from email except "to unsubscribe blah blah", made the msg body a short blurb and put our "Announcements Letter" as a pdf attachment. That has links etc.
> 
> That seemed to solve the problem!
> 
> Don't recall earthlink but comcast and gmail were big bouncers.
> 
> Howard();
> 
> 
> On 03/27/2018 08:57 AM, Roger W. Broseus via Novalug wrote:
>> My hosting service limits the number of addressees to help control spam. I requested and they gave me an increased ceiling on my outgoing - a few hundred. And, I send bcc. This is for a dance group of a low-few-hundred members.
>> 
>> Only problem that I have is on the recipient side: earthlink's overly aggressive policies result in bounces. And, their remedy is too burdensome. I seek alternate addresses for those folkies or they are just dropped from my address book.
> 
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John Franklin
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