Re: OT, but mail related

2010-11-30 Thread DTNX/NGMX Postmaster
On 24/11/2010, at 21:40, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> You'd be better off with SliceHost (RackSpace) than HE, and SliceHost >>> sucks from a delivery standpoint. >> >> Hmm... Interesting. Delivery as in transactional or bulk? I only had one or >> two slices from them, and off the bat had decent re

Re: OT, but mail related

2010-11-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Will Fong put forth on 11/24/2010 1:51 PM: > On Nov 24, 2010, at 1:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> You'd be better off with SliceHost (RackSpace) than HE, and SliceHost >> sucks from a delivery standpoint. > > Hmm... Interesting. Delivery as in transactional or bulk? I only had one or > two s

Re: OT, but mail related

2010-11-24 Thread Will Fong
On Nov 24, 2010, at 1:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > You'd be better off with SliceHost (RackSpace) than HE, and SliceHost > sucks from a delivery standpoint. Hmm... Interesting. Delivery as in transactional or bulk? I only had one or two slices from them, and off the bat had decent reputation

Re: OT, but mail related

2010-11-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Gary Smith put forth on 11/23/2010 11:47 PM: >> "My general advice WRT to VPS/colo/hosting outfits such as Softlayer, >> Limestone, Sharktech, Hostnoc, Colocation America, Colo4, SingleHop, >> Liquid Web, ServePath, GigeNet, WholeSale Internet, FDCservers, >> CarolinaNet, Hurricane Electric, et al

RE: OT, but mail related

2010-11-23 Thread Gary Smith
> "My general advice WRT to VPS/colo/hosting outfits such as Softlayer, > Limestone, Sharktech, Hostnoc, Colocation America, Colo4, SingleHop, > Liquid Web, ServePath, GigeNet, WholeSale Internet, FDCservers, > CarolinaNet, Hurricane Electric, et al is to SMTP block their entire IP > space and then

Re: OT, but mail related

2010-11-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Gary Smith put forth on 11/23/2010 2:17 PM: > I've been using the same IP's for years but I'm moving all my equipment to a > new facility in the coming days. Is there a checklist of things that you > guys suggest when setting up mail servers on a brand new range? > > I'm expecting to setup 5 IP

Re: OT, but mail related

2010-11-23 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Gary Smith : > I've been using the same IP's for years but I'm moving all my equipment to a > new facility in the coming days. Is there a checklist of things that you > guys suggest when setting up mail servers on a brand new range? Get a reputation for your domain i.e. DKIM et al. If you don't

Re: OT, but mail related

2010-11-23 Thread mouss
Le 23/11/2010 22:28, Gary Smith a écrit : you can try a lookup of these IPs in multiple RBLs, and lookup the "surrounding subnet" (/24 for example) on: http://www.senderbase.org/ you may want to keep the old servers for some time. (from experience, I've found MS to "cache" reputation for

RE: OT, but mail related

2010-11-23 Thread Gary Smith
> For receiving emails, you don't have too much to worry about. Just make > sure to set your DNS TTL pretty low a few days before you make the > actual switch. Yeah, that's the easy part. In the process of modifying TTL's as we speak. For my clients I have a backup MX that uses the same rules a

Re: OT, but mail related

2010-11-23 Thread Will Fong
On Nov 23, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Gary Smith wrote: > > Makes sense. I will keep a set of MX servers at the original COLO setup to > accept emails from my new range and forward outgoing email through them until > we verify the new one. > > Gary Smith For receiving emails, you don't have too much

RE: OT, but mail related

2010-11-23 Thread Gary Smith
> you can try a lookup of these IPs in multiple RBLs, and lookup the > "surrounding subnet" (/24 for example) on: > http://www.senderbase.org/ > > you may want to keep the old servers for some time. > (from experience, I've found MS to "cache" reputation for a long long > time. That once for

Re: OT, but mail related

2010-11-23 Thread mouss
Le 23/11/2010 21:17, Gary Smith a écrit : I've been using the same IP's for years but I'm moving all my equipment to a new facility in the coming days. Is there a checklist of things that you guys suggest when setting up mail servers on a brand new range? I'm expecting to setup 5 IP's for out

RE: OT, but mail related

2010-11-23 Thread Gary Smith
> > I'm expecting to setup 5 IP's for outgoing email and as such the RNDS > records for them as well. I just want to make sure that there's little, > if any, problems for myself and my customers that use my services. > > > Hi Gary, > > You'll probably want to warm up those IPs first. Generally

Re: OT, but mail related

2010-11-23 Thread Will Fong
On Nov 23, 2010, at 12:17 PM, Gary Smith wrote: > I'm expecting to setup 5 IP's for outgoing email and as such the RNDS records > for them as well. I just want to make sure that there's little, if any, > problems for myself and my customers that use my services. Hi Gary, You'll probably want

OT, but mail related

2010-11-23 Thread Gary Smith
I've been using the same IP's for years but I'm moving all my equipment to a new facility in the coming days. Is there a checklist of things that you guys suggest when setting up mail servers on a brand new range? I'm expecting to setup 5 IP's for outgoing email and as such the RNDS records fo