Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Recommendations for email hosting?

Ian Park wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I recall seeing several threads on the subject of ISPs and web hosting
> providers, but my need is a bit different. I have a domain
> (chalmers-park.name) hosted by 1and1.co.uk, with email service only (no
> web hosting) for email addresses which our family use. Recently I've had
> some grief when I tried to use 1and1's SMTP server to send email to
> addresses on a particular domain (st-nicolas-newbury.org) - that's the
> domain for our local church, and I'm secretary of the PCC.
>
> After much repeated explanation to the "technical support" people at
> 1and1, it emerged that 1and1 are excessively picky about checking the
> mapping between domain name and IP address for mail servers with which
> they're asked to interwork - they pray in aid RFC2181 section 10.3. The
> advice from the operator of the mail servers for st-nicolas-newbury.org
> is that although 1and1 are correct that RFC2181 requires this behaviour,
> the RFC is unreasonably strict, and 1and1 are the only operator which
> does this check.
>
> Which brings me to my question: based on your experiences with different
> email hosts, can you recommend an outfit to switch to when my contract
> comes up for renewal in February next year? I pay 1and1 around £20 a
> year for the domain name registration and email hosting, and I'd prefer
> not to see a steep increase...
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice
>
> Ian
>
I would send your email through your ISPs SMTP server. This is how I get
around the issue of having emails blacklisted because they're sent from
a server on a residential IP.

James