MWEB - stop testing me...

[GreGorGy]

I am in the process of signing a client of mine onto MWEB's Business ADSL but I saw something at another client this morning that has me changing my mind:

550 MWEB-RATE-LIMIT-DENY

They are limiting the number of emails that can leave a domain per hour. That won't work for my morning client, it won't work for my other client and it doesn't work for me. Since that limit is 200 emails. In an office of 20 people, that's 10 each per hour. I send more than that to my GF alone.

And then a few days ago, SPF error also came up for this client. Very annoying MWEB - get your techs to fix or understand - either will do.

 

[Griz]

You send more than 10 emails an hour to your GF?

 

[Anthro]

Had the same issue - use your domain SMTP :465 port with auth enabled = fixed.

 

[w1z4rd]

If you are going to be spammy get your own smtp server.

 

[GreGorGy]

You send more than 10 emails an hour to your GF?

Depends on the day - sometimes it is just non-sequiturs. That's hardly noise.

Had the same issue - use your domain SMTP :465 port with auth enabled = fixed.

Thanks - I will give that a bash. Sounds promising

If you are going to be spammy get your own smtp server.

Useless contribution - as usual.

 

[fragtion]

About time. Being the netadmin for a small corp that uses mweb exclusively for their mail and doesn't wish to switch to private, I was getting really tired of contacting mail-blacklist corps to try and unblock the Mweb SMTP server after someone else obviously used the server for spam. Glad to see that should be a thing of the past. If you send 10 e-mails to your GF in an hour, then sorry to say but YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG - you seriously need to look to a Instant Messenger program/service instead. I find Skype + WhatsApp do the job perfectly.

 

[GreGorGy]

About time. Being the netadmin for a small corp that uses mweb exclusively for their mail and doesn't wish to switch to private, I was getting really tired of contacting mail-blacklist corps to try and unblock the Mweb SMTP server after someone else obviously used the server for spam. Glad to see that should be a thing of the past. If you send 10 e-mails to your GF in an hour, then sorry to say but YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG - you seriously need to look to a Instant Messenger program/service instead. I find Skype + WhatsApp do the job perfectly.

What I send is on my OWN FKING SERVER - not MWEB's - and I was just using that to indicate the nature of Mweb's narrow approach! It is my client's connection (office of 20+ people) that they are limited to 200 per hour. That's 10 per person. One email copied to 20 people and the damn thing shuts down. MWEB must really try their best to detail their products and notify people of changes. IM programs may be at your disposal but when the other side sits in some dick-headed corporation where software other than the shipping rubbish is prohibited, sometimes we use emails for their ORIGINAL INTENDED purpose.

 

[w1z4rd]

Useless contribution - as usual.

I have the same SMTP limits on my servers. Works very well. Spammers can go elsewhere, and big companies should have their own server and not be in a shared environment.

I think you might be a couple of emails behind to your gf in the time you took to read this. Perhaps if you spent less time chatting to your gf you could do better setups?

 

[Bar0n]

Perhaps if you spent less time chatting to your gf you could do better setups?

Oh lord, I lol'd.

 

[D3x]

Yoh! SMACK!!

 

[GreGorGy]

I think you might be a couple of emails behind to your gf in the time you took to read this. Perhaps if you spent less time chatting to your gf you could do better setups?

At last something useful. As previously explained, I inherited these setups. But you are somewhat right - I should do better ones, hence this rant. And hence my probable move away from MWEB. I host my own clients all over the show but the two I have inherited are with MWEB. Time to consolidate them onto my own server.

The one sends out price lists about once every 6 weeks to retailers that want the price lists, so it is hardly spam. Now, they gotta send them in little bits and pieces, thanks to this crap.

 

[guest2013-1]

If you are going to be spammy get your own smtp server.

+100000000000000000000

 

[guest2013-1]

What I send is on my OWN FKING SERVER - not MWEB's - and I was just using that to indicate the nature of Mweb's narrow approach! It is my client's connection (office of 20+ people) that they are limited to 200 per hour. That's 10 per person. One email copied to 20 people and the damn thing shuts down. MWEB must really try their best to detail their products and notify people of changes. IM programs may be at your disposal but when the other side sits in some dick-headed corporation where software other than the shipping rubbish is prohibited, sometimes we use emails for their ORIGINAL INTENDED purpose.

FYI, cc's don't count into the overall total the last time dealt with this

 

[guest2013-1]

At last something useful. As previously explained, I inherited these setups. But you are somewhat right - I should do better ones, hence this rant. And hence my probable move away from MWEB. I host my own clients all over the show but the two I have inherited are with MWEB. Time to consolidate them onto my own server.

The one sends out price lists about once every 6 weeks to retailers that want the price lists, so it is hardly spam. Now, they gotta send them in little bits and pieces, thanks to this crap.

It would be very simple for you to just set them up to use a different outgoing mail server. They can still receive mail via their MWEB setup if they wanted. This is what I did in the end with one of my clients back when MWEB was still with IS. You can then also monitor and manage the outgoing email much better than you current can re: SPF/Reverse DNS and possible blacklisting

 

[w1z4rd]

At last something useful. As previously explained, I inherited these setups. But you are somewhat right - I should do better ones, hence this rant. And hence my probable move away from MWEB. I host my own clients all over the show but the two I have inherited are with MWEB. Time to consolidate them onto my own server.

The one sends out price lists about once every 6 weeks to retailers that want the price lists, so it is hardly spam. Now, they gotta send them in little bits and pieces, thanks to this crap.

You can pick up a vps for $4 ($19 if you want cPanel). Thats what I tend to move people to who have over 10 email accounts.

 

[MWEBHelp]

Hi GreGorGy

PM me your MWEB account details so that I can have our Business department contact you with more information regarding your concerns.