[Info-vax] SMTP AUTH ?

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote 2011-11-11 12:39:
> In article<j9bau3$mjv$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
> <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>  writes:
>
>> OK, I have checked Dynaccess. To use smtp-relay, you need one of the
>> "HeartBeat" services.
>
> Right.  I have HeartBeat A, actually just for the SMTP-relay; I haven't
> started using the heartbeat yet.
>
>> The per-hour limitations makes these not
>> practical for me. I have a burst of mails in the evening when my
>> auctions ends and my server handles the "sold-item" mails.
>>
>> 20 mails/hour for HB-A (@89 EUR/year) is not enough. 50 mail/hour
>> for HB-B (@ 120 EUR/year) is on the edge. Ans HB-C with 100 mail/hour
>> is 150 EUR/year.
>
> This applies only to sent emails.  So, from time to time, you need to
> SEND about 50 or so mails an hour?
>

Today it's say 20 mails/hour at prime-time in the evening.
Each ended auction produces one mail. And every "ask the seller"
email counts (if I route them this way). And while developing/debugging
my routines I could easily reach 50 mails within an hour. :-)

Note that there is the "newsletter" option.  It is named thusly since
> people who send out newsletters normally have to send many emails within
> a short time.  If you register the sender address (normally, you can
> send from any address), I think you can send more.  (I think the
> limitation is partly as an anti-spam measure.  He needs to keep his SMTP
> relay server clean so that people won't reject it.  If you send more
> than you pay for, you get a warning etc.  I had this problem at the
> beginning due to backscatter spam.)
>