Hi, At your direction I signed up with a 3rd party SMTP server so that I could generate email content using our Winhost database and send the emails to our opt-in users with the 3rd party email server rather than the shared Winhost SMTP servers. It worked fine the first time I used it. I generated 2,500 emails in about an hour using the 3rd party SMTP server. I didn't change anything in the code, but it stopped working. I know the 3rd party email server is working because I can send email through it using Windows Live Mail. I can also send mail using my Winhost account through my ASP script. Even though I took great pains to avoid doing so, did I somehow violate the Winhost policy by sending 2,500 emails using the 3rd party's SMTP server? Here's my script: ' smtpout.secureserver.net is the 3rd party SMTP server ' bar411.biz is the domain name established by the 3rd party SMTP server ' bar411.com is my Winhost domain name ' HTML is the body of the email generated by ASP code and my Winhost database Set ObjSendMail = Server.CreateObject("Persits.MailSender") ObjSendMail.Host = "smtpout.secureserver.net" ObjSendMail.Port = 80 ObjSendMail.Username = "[email protected]" ObjSendMail.Password = "password" ObjSendMail.From = "[email protected]" ObjSendMail.FromName = "Bar411" ObjSendMail.AddAddress "user email address" ObjSendMail.Subject = "Your weekly Bar411 schedule" ObjSendMail.Body = HTML ObjSendMail.IsHTML = TRUE ObjSendMail.Send Did I violate the policy by using the "From" and "FromName" as my Winhost email account instead of the 3rd party email account? Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated. Thanks
No. If you are using a 3rd party email server there is no policy you can violate from us. I suggest you contact the email administrator of that 3rd party email server and verify there smtp log to see if they are sending the email.
That's a good idea, your site. I knew someone in Los Angeles who was going to start something similar but he didn't have the moxie to follow through with it.
