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[nycphp-talk] Emails not being received when using mail()

B.A.S. lists at nopersonal.info
Mon Jan 14 18:40:55 EST 2008


John Campbell wrote:
> Sending mail from a shared host is always problematic.  Do you have
> your own ip?  A shared ip address is a disaster because if there is
> one spammer on the host, you are SOL and there is nothing you can do
> about it.  If you care about emails going through, get your own ip and
> make sure your dns has a SPF record.
> 
> Regards,
> John Campbell

No, the client in question doesn't have their own (dedicated) IP and 
AFAIK the only thing available is a static IP, which I'm guessing 
wouldn't help since (as I understand it) several domains could be using 
the same static IP. It doesn't have an SPF record either.

Thanks for the advice.

Bev



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