RJM62
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Geek on the Hill
I have a client that insists on using a mailing list service to notify clients of new products and so forth.
I don't allow clients on shared servers to use lists because, in the past I've had too many blacklisting incidents. Not that the clients were spamming; rather, recipients who had opted-in to the email later decided they no longer wanted them, and reported them as spam rather than opting out. This caused all the clients on the shared server to have mail issues until I sorted out the problems with whichever of the umpteem blacklists I was lucky enough to wind up with that day.
I've told this client that if they want to use lists, I will happily move them to a VPS with its own mail server and IP addresses, this way whatever they do doesn't affect any other clients. But they don't want to pay the extra cost. So now I'm considering third-party mail solutions for them. I've used Google Apps for some clients in the past, but preferably what I'd like for this client is a mail-only service.
My concern is simply isolating them from any of my mail server IP addresses, so when they wind up getting themselves blacklisted, it's not my problem. Otherwise, I'm not going to renew them, and they can find hosting elsewhere.
Any suggestions?
-Rich
I don't allow clients on shared servers to use lists because, in the past I've had too many blacklisting incidents. Not that the clients were spamming; rather, recipients who had opted-in to the email later decided they no longer wanted them, and reported them as spam rather than opting out. This caused all the clients on the shared server to have mail issues until I sorted out the problems with whichever of the umpteem blacklists I was lucky enough to wind up with that day.
I've told this client that if they want to use lists, I will happily move them to a VPS with its own mail server and IP addresses, this way whatever they do doesn't affect any other clients. But they don't want to pay the extra cost. So now I'm considering third-party mail solutions for them. I've used Google Apps for some clients in the past, but preferably what I'd like for this client is a mail-only service.
My concern is simply isolating them from any of my mail server IP addresses, so when they wind up getting themselves blacklisted, it's not my problem. Otherwise, I'm not going to renew them, and they can find hosting elsewhere.
Any suggestions?
-Rich