> Our company currently has a dedicated mail host in house that emails out directly to the clouds. We do not relay to another mail host or
> anything. We want to implement a feature where we can email clients who have missed their last month's payment when we print their
> current statement. As such, I'm wondering - how many emails per day can be sent this way before being blacklisted by Spamhaus and the
> like? Many of them say they don't blacklist based on volume, but by practice, but I'm unsure of other sites. At a previous job, our
> admin said that AOL would blacklist us for sending out something like 500 1 recipient emails per day, or any number with more than 75
> recipients. We may have gone through AOL for our mail hosting, however.
BTW, you can register you server with AOL and they'll not block but send you a message showing where an AOL user complained about your mail. I registered my server with AOL and they do run a pretty professional operation. The postmaster really does answer the mail at AOL, that's more that I can same for most ISPs.
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> We typically have around 400 clients who miss a payment each month (usually not the SAME 400, of course). However, this can jump up
> and down a couple hundred, and many will probably opt out. How likely does this seem to get us blacklisted?
Probably never if each person was getting a separate, tailored e-mail message. The number of messages sent generally has nothing to do with getting blacklisted by Spamhaus and others. Most of the blacklists look at the content and not the process.
That said if you are trying to send the same message to 400 RCPT TO addresses and it looked at all spammy then you're getting on at least someone's blacklist. ;-(
<p>&gt; Our company currently has a dedicated mail host in house that emails out directly to the clouds.&nbsp; We do not relay to another mail host or
&gt; anything.&nbsp; We want to implement a feature where we can email clients who have missed their last month's payment when we print their
&gt; current statement.&nbsp; As such, I'm wondering - how many emails per day can be sent this way before being blacklisted by Spamhaus and the
&gt; like?&nbsp; Many of them say they don't blacklist based on volume, but by practice, but I'm unsure of other sites.&nbsp; At a previous job, our
&gt; admin said that AOL would blacklist us for sending out something like 500 1 recipient emails per day, or any number with more than 75
&gt; recipients.&nbsp; We may have gone through AOL for our mail hosting, however.</p><p>BTW, you can register you server with AOL and they'll not block but send you a message showing where an AOL user complained about your mail.&nbsp; I registered my server with AOL and they do run a pretty professional operation.&nbsp; The postmaster really does answer the mail at AOL, that's more that I can same for most ISPs.
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&gt; We typically have around 400 clients who miss a payment each month (usually not the SAME 400, of course).&nbsp; However, this can jump up
&gt; and down a couple hundred, and many will probably opt out.&nbsp; How likely does this seem to get us blacklisted?
Probably never if each person was getting a separate, tailored e-mail message.&nbsp; The number of messages sent generally has nothing to do with getting blacklisted by Spamhaus and others.&nbsp; Most of the blacklists look at the content and not the process. &nbsp;
That said if you are trying to send the same message to 400 RCPT TO addresses and it looked at all spammy then you're getting on at least someone's blacklist.&nbsp; ;-(
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