Re: [PHP] Mail Function In PHP

Having worked at a decent sized, respectable ISP with 100,000+ customers 
sending email via Iron Ports (email scanners), even they would get put 
on a blacklist on a monthly basis. Hell it wouldn't surprise me if 
Gmail's SMTP servers got put on a black list at some point.
There's seemingly hundreds of blacklists and whilst some play nice, 
others are very paranoid.
Usually the good email servers will detect your on a blacklist then rate 
limit the number of emails it'll accept from you. If you keep pissing it 
off, by sending emails to non-existant addresses (something they REALLY 
hate), sending emails that are too big, or simply sending too many 
emails or emails with too many recipients, then it'll tighten the 
restrictions. Over time if your good then those restrictions will be 
released and eventually you'll be able to send at normal rates.

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Michael Kubler
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Teus Benschop wrote:
>
> Once a domain or ip address was black listed, it was quite a process to
> get it unlisted again, and even then as soon as mail came from that
> domain, it got blacklisted again. Supposedly there is some certification
> process that official smtp relays need to go through so as to prove or
> certify that they won't allow spam to be sent through them, and take
> steps to remove offenders from using their relay. However, this is all
> guessing, and in the end we just gave up and used our ISP's official
> relay. Teus.