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YeOldeStonecat

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Anyone have experiences with 3rd party SMTP services?

For clients with Exchange servers....most of my clients..I have our data host partner upstairs do their DNS, smart hosting, blah blah..and he provides his authentication SMTP server on alternate ports (non-25)..so I can setup my clients SBS servers Exchange to forward through him. All is dandy.

But I have a few clients who run SBS...and they're on ISP bandwidth like SBC...so I've historically been stuck doing SMTP forwarding to the ISPs SMTP server. Well.with all the freekin changes that SNET/SBC/YaPoo/AT&T/Prodigy is going through..even the most recent smtpauth.sbcglobal.net server is giving hiccups the past 2 days..seems they have a RevDNS issue, other recipients rejecting that e-mail as spam.

So I'm wondering if anyone has experience with 3rd party SMTP services such as...
http://www.authsmtp.com/ ..which I just found as top hit doing a Gooooooooogle.
 
Are you refering to smarhosting?

I have one customer that is using the MailHop Outbound service from DynDNS. This will work if your customer refuses to get a static IP.
http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/outbound.html

Google recently purchased Postini. They have a package that is $12 per user per year that will allow for outbound connections. I just switch my company over to this because my ISP wouldn't update my PTR record and Yahoo was flagging mail from my domain as spam. I was a little bit of a pain to set up, but it has been running great so far. The price is really competitive as well. It's part of the Google Apps suite.
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/security/compare.html
 
MorfiusX said:
Are you refering to smarhosting?

I have one customer that is using the MailHop Outbound service from DynDNS. This will work if your customer refuses to get a static IP.
http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/outbound.html

Google recently purchased Postini. They have a package that is $12 per user per year that will allow for outbound connections. I just switch my company over to this because my ISP wouldn't update my PTR record and Yahoo was flagging mail from my domain as spam. I was a little bit of a pain to set up, but it has been running great so far. The price is really competitive as well. It's part of the Google Apps suite.
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/security/compare.html
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Google==>Postini...wow..cool...thanks for that link. Client is on static IP...I have their MX record pointing directly to them right now..so they get mail directly. I know I could flip the Exchange server to direct mail out..but honestly with all the changes 'n trying to stay on top of RevDNS and staying off spam lists and constantly dealing with MX record maint...I really prefer to try to stick with having a Smart host do that..have their Exchange pull from the host..and SMTP forward to the host. So Google Apps may be good for this....esp with Postini filtering now.

Def worth a good looksie.
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
Google==>Postini...wow..cool...thanks for that link. Client is on static IP...I have their MX record pointing directly to them right now..so they get mail directly. I know I could flip the Exchange server to direct mail out..but honestly with all the changes 'n trying to stay on top of RevDNS and staying off spam lists and constantly dealing with MX record maint...I really prefer to try to stick with having a Smart host do that..have their Exchange pull from the host..and SMTP forward to the host. So Google Apps may be good for this....esp with Postini filtering now.

Def worth a good looksie.
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It's been working great for me for the past few weeks. Support has been top notch as well.
 
So they can act as an SMTP Smart Host? MX record points to them..and they can dump to your Exchange Server? And they give you an SMTP service on an alternate port (other than 25)...so you can build the SMTP virtual connector?
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
So they can act as an SMTP Smart Host? MX record points to them..and they can dump to your Exchange Server? And they give you an SMTP service on an alternate port (other than 25)...so you can build the SMTP virtual connector?
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Absolutely. They also have pretty detailed documentation on how to do it.
 
K after reading...seems like the message security bundle is a good fit...gives the filtering...as well as the ability to queue if servers offline. The message discovery package..I can't see the advantage to that.
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
K after reading...seems like the message security bundle is a good fit...gives the filtering...as well as the ability to queue if servers offline. The message discovery package..I can't see the advantage to that.
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The message discovery bundle gives you archiving, which can be needed by regulation for certain industries. We are using the security bundle only.
 
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