SimplyMagick

I have a reseller plan and one of my clients wants to set up a domain so that it is strictly for free email services, ie: Gmail or Hotmail.

Does anyone know how that would work? How he would go about it?

Thanks in advance!

David

Do not let them do that. It will just invite spammers and then you'll get the complaints for it, since you host them. Free email services are not forbidden by the TOS/AUP but are highly recommended against. I would like to see them added to the prohibited list actually, but if they have to do one, I would suggest Everyone.net (they can plug it into their site and it's not actually going TO the server). However, when I had mine, the amount of spam that got dumped into the server almost crashed it serveral times (100k emails in a couple days, and 10k in a few hours). Even now, I've had to redirect that domain back to where ever the domain registrar (active-domains) points them by default, and I STILL get messages from it that have been spilling over.

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demontech

A better idea shoud may be to make the emails users pay a small-one time fee?

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Q04

Everyone.net is nice and all, but it depends on how it is managed. If it is open and free, yeah, there is a problem. But doing it say like Google does now (cell #) or pay service, it can be controlled.

I'm familiar with this software and one client has over 25,000 users without any issue.

It is all in the way you manage it.

Of course, if you seeking to have just a few users I'd say it's safe for the reseller. But if this is getting opened to the general public you need to get a dedicated as the reseller servers won't be able to handle it.

David

But Everyone.net isn't software though. It's a service managed by the Everyone.net company. It's not on the servers here, so there isn't much managing to do. Using them would be fine, but can cause problems, like the one I had where I was getting thousands of spam messages that were almost crashing the server. My only resort was to change the dns of the domain from my server to the registrars default ones.

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Q04

Sorry, I just assumed that was common knowledge.

Everyone.net is ok for giving out vanity email, etc. but the $$ return is almost non-existant.

There are really good hotmail/ yahoomail style software that can be used that brings the owner a good return.

You can't just leave yourself open to have folks registering and using it for spam and it has to be managed.