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onliner
10-28-2004, 05:15 AM
Hello, i searched but couldnt find an answer.

i was wondering whether someone with the Advanced package may somehow provide a frontend to users so that they can open up new email accounts something like Hotmail

Cheers. ;)
Ron
10-28-2004, 10:19 PM
You mean provide an email service to people using your own account? If so kinda depends on how many you want to hand out
onliner
10-29-2004, 12:08 AM
yes provide an email service to people but also have a frontend like hotmail so that they can create an account, view their emails, reply etc

would tht be possible?
Randyo
10-30-2004, 08:15 PM
yes provide an email service to people but also have a frontend like hotmail so that they can create an account, view their emails, reply etc

would tht be possible?Do yourself a favor, Free email services have a nasty way of getting IP's blacklisted, I would think twice about it. Even a pay service can be a problem when a spammer decides that the $5 signup is worth a couple hours of spam
onliner
11-01-2004, 12:28 AM
alright then thanks, just wanted to provide my users another extra service but i dont like spam and i dont want to help a spammer in any way
Ron
11-01-2004, 07:22 AM
Yep what he said. I mean I wont talk you out of it or anything but Ill give you fair warning anyway, that sorta thing can be a huge problem for us. Once our servers or any servers IP gets blacklisted, that entire server is effected and we would have to suspend your account after that. Getting off a blacklist is extremly difficult regardless of what spam lists tell you, its all automatic, there is no human sitting on the other end, maybe some but not the big ones.

The other problem with that is jamming up email. There is one guy that had 100's of email accounts, when the mail was backing up at 30K emails an hour, he was suspended to. If you over due the resources on a server or get us blacklisted, we frown on it :(

If you get a spammer on a regular email account, their easily tracked, its through scripts that are difficult but not impossible. If you purchased your own dedicated server and wanted to do this that would be your own deal there. :D