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Alternatives for outbound email service



On 9/27/2010 8:49 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>
> IMHO, you need to set up *every* thing right, or a lot of recipient domains
> will reject your mail.  You need forward&   reverse dns entries that match.
> You need a SPF record.  You need a valid signed TLS certificate.  You need
> to react promptly if you somehow get added to a blacklist.

And occasionally there is NOTHING you can do. For example, AOL 
blacklists all the IP address ranges associated with residential DSL 
connections; if you're trying to send mail from one of those addresses 
you can do everything else right and they'll still reject it.






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