We currently have a company email server with Exchange, and a bulk email processing server that is using IIS STMP. We are upgrading to a 3rd party MTA (zrinity xms) for bulk sending. I need to be able to keep sending the messages already queued for IIS when we switch to the 3rd party sofware. Can I simply move the IIS queue files to the ...
When developing an application that sends out notification email messages, what are the best practices for not getting flagged as a spammer by your hosting company. (Cover any of:) best technique for not flooding a mail server best mail server products, if you were to set up your own sending messages as if from a specific user but s...
I've got my Rails (2.1) app setup to send email via Gmail, however whenever I send an email no matter what I set the from address to in my ActionMailer the emails always come as if sent from my Gmail email address. Is this a security restriction they've put in place at Gmail to stop spammers using their SMTP? Note: I've tried both of th...
I've just switched an application to use ar_mailer and when I run ar_sendmail (after a long pause) I get the following error: Unhandled exception 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. h7sm16260325nfh.4 I am using Gmail SMTP to send the emails and I haven't changed any of the ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings just installed ar_...
My ISP account requires that I send a username & password for outbound SMTP mail. How do I get PHP to use this when executing php.mail()? The php.ini file only contains entries for the server (SMTP= ) and From: (sendmail_from= ). ...
I have a domain name registered and I want to be able to send and receive mail for some mail addresses @ mydomain. I'm talking about a small number of addresses, and small mail volumes (but I would like to be able to scale if needed). I guess there are at least three options: Run a mail gateway myself (which I am well familiar with, b...
I am sending newsletters from a Java server and one of the hyperlinks is arriving missing a period, rendering it useless: Please print your <a href=3D"http://xxxxxxx.xxx.xx.edu= au//newsletter2/3/InnovExpoInviteVIP.pdf"> VIP invitation</a> for future re= ference and check the Innovation Expo website <a href=3D"http://xxxxxxx.xx= xx.xx.e...
I'm implementing a email newsletter sender service using .NET and Windows Server technologies. Are there comprehensive guidelines which could help avoiding emails being trapped by spam filters and other mechanisms? They should cover all aspects of (legal) bulk mail sending: SMTP configuration, DNS, HTML content, images, links within con...
I would like to send mail from a script on a Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition. I think the server setup is pretty much out of the box. The mail server is an Exchange one, and when you're on the internal network you can use plain old SMTP. I have done it from my machine with Perl, but unfortunately Perl is not available on the server...
I can get both System.Net.Mail and System.Web.Mail to work with GMail, but I can't get them both to work with smtp.att.yahoo.com. I get the SMTP settings from my own Web.config keys. These settings work when I send using System.Web.Mail, but fail with System.Net.Mail. <add key="SmtpServer" value="smtp.att.yahoo.com"/> <add key="Smt...
SSL can either be "explicit" or "implicit" as explained by this link: http://help.globalscape.com/help/secureserver2/Explicit_versus_implicit_SS.htm System.Net.Mail only support "explicit" SSL, as explained here: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdav_101/archive/2008/06/02/system-net-mail-with-ssl-to-authenticate-against-port-465.aspx So, I'm...
How can I test sending email from my application without flooding my inbox? Is there a way to tell IIS/ASP.NET how to deliver email to a local folder for inspection? ...
Using JDK1.5 how does one send a binary attachemnt (such as a PDF file) easily using the JavaMail API? ...
I need to send email through an (external) SMTP server from Java however this server will only accept CRAM-MD5 authentication, which is not supported by JavaMail. What would be a good way to get these emails to send? (It must be in Java.) ...
My VPS provider (Slicehost) doesn't provide an SMTP server. I use Google Apps to send and receive mail for my domains, but I want to be able to programmatically send e-mail. I've been Googling this issue on and off for many months, and I just can't seem to get a clear picture of what I need to do. Do I just need an MTA like postfix? ...
Our web application sends e-mails. We have lots of users, and we get lots of bounces. For example, user changes company and his company e-mail is no longer valid. To find bounces, I parse smtp log file with log parser. Some bounces are great, like 550+#[email protected]. There is [email protected] in bounce. But som...
I'm using MDaemon as out mail server and the last days I get an error "554 Message does not conform to standards" for emails sent from one of the machines. Any idea what may be causing it? Other machines work fine. More info....this is the log file: Mon 2008-10-20 16:11:37: Session 7831; child 1; thread 3908 Mon 2008-10-20 16:11:36: A...
I have a customer who needs to send some direct mailing to his contacts which is being collected from trade shows etc. I am thinking about providing a web based solution for them on sending direct mailing material- however this kind of solution always face a major difficulty on having the server blacklisted. I would like to know if there...
Website started life originally under IIS 6 and the site worked great there. Now after relocating to a new server running W2K8S, everything but mail delivery from the website now works great under IIS 7. Researched briefly on the Web to see if anybody had a good resolution, but no avail... Not even a glimmer of hope on Microsoft's own s...
Encrypted email - sounds like a great thing, right? Problem already solved, right? Well... I don't think so and I'm hoping I'm wrong! To understand what I'm asking, please understand what I'm NOT asking: I am not asking how I encrypt and sign messages sent over public networks. This is a bit different. I want to set up a mail server wh...