Is this common for a Business DSL account?

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Lifer
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I know someone who works for a small business with a small business DSL account from Bellsouth. They are experiencing problems sending mass e-mails (one e-mail with 100 or so recipients). After sending such e-mails, a delivery error notice comes back within a few minutes from the "System Administrator" saying that no carrier was available to deliver the e-mails. I am now on the phone with Bellsouth, and they are telling me there is a limit on the number of e-mails I can send; it's like 75-100 per hour? Is this common?

 

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Lifer
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Why aren't they running their own mail servers?

It has nothing to do with DSL, the same limit would still be there on DSL, dial-up, cable, a T1, etc.

The admin of the mail server has set that limit to keep people from spamming from their mail server.

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Lifer
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Well, they do have a machine running Win2K Server there...

Maybe I can help. Anyone want to provide a crash course on setting up a SMTP server on Win2K Server?
 

DAM

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pay for an smtp service, buy a cheap linux box and a static ip and voila smtp server to boot!



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