Questions: I dont have email support thru my ISP, is the a way to send mail through my domain? Can I use one of those programs that ferrets the net and gathers email addresses ? Can I e-mail someone that I don't know ? Can I do an E-Mail BLAST ? Can I BULK E-MAIL ? Can I SPAM? Can I send E-Mail to "targeted" Mailing Lists? I am trying to send e-mail and I keep getting the error "Mail Relaying Denied"... what do I do ? Answers: I dont have email support thru my ISP, is the a way to send mail thru my domain? You should use your internet access provider for sending e-mails (smtp.youraccesprovider.ext) Can I use one of those programs that ferrets the net and gathers email addresses ? Sure as long as you dont THEN go and use those email addresses to SPAM :) Can I e-mail someone that I don't know ? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! If you email to a list, and you get SPAM COMPLAINTS, you WILL BE FINED and shut down. PERIOD. Can I do an E-Mail BLAST ? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! If you email to a list, and you get SPAM COMPLAINTS, you WILL BE FINED and shut down. PERIOD. Can I BULK E-MAIL ? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! If you email to a list, and you get SPAM COMPLAINTS, you WILL BE FINED and shut down. PERIOD. Can I SPAM? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! If you email to a list, and you get SPAM COMPLAINTS, you WILL BE FINED and shut down. PERIOD. Can I send E-Mail to "targeted" Mailing Lists? You can, as long as you don't get ANY SPAM complaints. BE VERY carefull when buying/renting mailing lists... as MOST of the people selling these are JUST SPAMMERS in "OPT IN" clothing. If you email to a list, and you get SPAM COMPLAINTS, you WILL BE FINED and shut down. PERIOD. I am trying to send e-mail and I keep getting the error "Mail Relaying Denied"... what do I do ? In order to allow you TO SEND MAIL from your domain, you need to Authenticate by logging into your POP server first. This will solve this problem :) Please read the reasons as to why we do not have "open-relay" below. The recent problem concerning SMTP is a actually a feature that our servers have and is not meant as a hindrance to your or your business. Let me explain how this feature works and will benefit you and then we can work out the details to help you use this feature. This feature is to protect you and the rest of our clients from SPAM and from being blocked or labeled as a SPAM-relay. Certain "blackhole" companies like ORBS have put together a database of Hosting companies and servers that have an open Mail-Relay. ORBS will go to each IP address on a server and if they can send mail through your server they put you in their database and inform you that your relay is open. ORBS then gives this database to ISP's around the world. If someone from that ISP tries to send mail to anyone on your server the ISP will see that you are on the database and deny that mail from getting to you. No if, ands, or buts, the mail just drops off the net. ORBS had previously blocked some of the servers on our network in the past! From mail traffic. We have removed these servers and we are working with ORBS to keep the rest of the servers from getting in the ORBS database list. As you can see by now that if your server is put on the list you will slowly loose every piece of email. That is why we have had to close Mail-Relay for the server. Therefore this is actually a feature that we have to offer. In general it is best to use your ISP's SMTP server and if you do not need your own SMTP server you should use your ISP's outgoing mail server (SMTP) in place of your domain's.