Spammers Cause All Sorts of Problems

If you have not been burdened with an unrelenting barrage of spam in your inbox, consider yourself blessed. Spam is reported to take up approximately 90% of all e-mail coming into your mailbox. Because of this, most, if not all, ISPs and e-mail providers have declared a war on spam.

One of the weapons in this war is the ability ISPs have to block various mail servers. This is known as "blacklisting." People who run nameservers, as we do, must move aggressively to prevent ANY e-mail activity which even remotely resembles spam in order to keep our IPs from being blocked.

An Excellent Solution--As Far as We Are Concerned

One solution to this problem, and one that we employ, is to require our clients to use their ISP's outgoing mail server (SMTP) to send ALL outgoing e-mail. Using this can be a lot more secure since ISPs can restrict access to their mail servers based on Internet Connection IP. So, for example, if one of our client's Internet Connection IP did not belong to that client's ISP, then the ISP could reject it. Further, since these connections are a single hop away, there is no way for a person to use open proxies on the Internet to try and mask his IP from the SMTP server. Therefore, if one of our client's were to use his ISP's mail server to send spam, his ISP would know exactly who he was and would take immediate measures. ISPs are way tougher than Web site hosting companies.

But How Will It Look?!?!?

Some people believe that using their ISP's Outgoing SMTP mail server would affect the way the message appears when it arrives in the mailbox of the person it was sent to. This is NOT the case. Changing your outgoing mail server to that of your ISP will not affect the way your e-mail appears. Using your ISP's outgoing mail server will not affect the reply-to nor the appearance that it has come from your domain name. In other words, you can still send mail through your ISP's outgoing mail server and, when the recipients of those messages reply back, those messages will go to your POP account set up under your domain name. The recipient will still see your name and your domain POP3 account e-mail address in their message.

For more information about setting up POP3 e-mail accounts on our servers, please check this knowledgebase and our tutorials.

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