On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 02:01:48PM +1200, Mark Foster wrote:
So in terms of the OP, I don't see why joe-user on a dynamic-IP home connection should need the ability to use port 25 to talk to anywhere but their local ISP SMTP server on a normal basis[1].
Whats a normal basis?
My Home ISP won't let me send to more than 200 (or so) email addresses per day. If I used my ISP's email system I would constantly be losing my email service due to hitting the limit.
I do the field scheduling for my local town soccer league. [Never volunteer! :-) ]
So when I send a few announcements out to coaches, referees and administrators, I hit that limit and get my email shutoff for two days or so. I eventually switched to MailHop at DynDNS (smtp auth)
I would have used port 25 but our ISP has begun blocking outbound port 25 nationwide, due to large amount of outbound spam from their customers. :-)
*rest snipped* Is the above described limitation a common occurrance in the world-at-large? I've not heard of ISPs doing number-of-recipients-per-day limitations. I've heard of them doing number-of-recipients-per-email limitations (thus limiting large cc/bcc lists) but not total number of emails. Who's to say that there arent legitimate reasons to email a large number of people - perhaps your customers?? Certainly if my own ISP did something like that, you're quite right, i'd have to find an alternative. (Or perhaps, an alternative ISP. ) (who set the limit at 200? Can you opt-out of the limit or have it upped?) Mark.