Use a better SMTP mail relay service
Most ISP's offer basic SMTP services (some offer none at all!).
They allow you to use their servers only while you are using their Internet connection (quite understandable!) but this causes problems if you use multiple ISP's.
As another anti-spam precaution they often only allow you to send as you@your-isp-name.com and not you@your-domain-name - no good if you do have your own domain name!!
To get around this you need to use an authenticated SMTP mail relay - we found AuthSMTP on Google - and it seems to work perfectly.
Their service authenticates you using a user name / password and allow access to multiple / alternate SMTP ports - meaning you should be able to use it from almost all ISP's.
In addition you authorise the 'from' addresses you send as - so you can only 'send' from email addresses you can 'receive' - so stops a lot of spam and phishing schemes which rely on being able to fake the sender address.
The benefit of this is it actually makes their servers more reliable - if normal ISP's send spam / phishing schemes their servers risk being blacklisted which means your email gets blacklisted!
The service is low cost, has been 100% reliable and well worth a look!
They allow you to use their servers only while you are using their Internet connection (quite understandable!) but this causes problems if you use multiple ISP's.
As another anti-spam precaution they often only allow you to send as you@your-isp-name.com and not you@your-domain-name - no good if you do have your own domain name!!
To get around this you need to use an authenticated SMTP mail relay - we found AuthSMTP on Google - and it seems to work perfectly.
Their service authenticates you using a user name / password and allow access to multiple / alternate SMTP ports - meaning you should be able to use it from almost all ISP's.
In addition you authorise the 'from' addresses you send as - so you can only 'send' from email addresses you can 'receive' - so stops a lot of spam and phishing schemes which rely on being able to fake the sender address.
The benefit of this is it actually makes their servers more reliable - if normal ISP's send spam / phishing schemes their servers risk being blacklisted which means your email gets blacklisted!
The service is low cost, has been 100% reliable and well worth a look!
by anti-spam @ 11:06 AM [Link]
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