SMTP Relays

Shamsher Singh shared this idea 2 years ago
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Need SMTP Relays on Spanel email services

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certainly something we would need if we consider moving from cpanel to spanel. We need to use services like spamexperts / mailchannels and other comparable smtp relay services. 

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SpamExperts incoming filtering will work just fine on SPanel and there are many people using it.

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Vlad, Incoming is of course working, i was talking about outbound relay sory if i confused you with that, the main purpose of these services is that they deliver fast and accurate without rejections of blacklists as these are specfic services for correct and fast mail delivery. Often IP ranges from datacenters are blocked especially by companies like Microsoft which like to throw whole subnet blocks into a spamfilter instead of the offenders.  Causing not only the spammer to be blocked but the rest of the subnet as well, somtimes hunderds of IPs. And always a nightmare to request delisting of your innocent server.  Clients are more than willingly paying for a service which is monitored 24x7 where the mail service can switch networks if something may go amiss ; also it stop clients which are hacked from sending out mass mail (protecting the customers brand in that way as well). So an outbound relay service like Spamexperts and mailchannels (or any other service like this) would be very welcome.  Its easy to do for all accounts or per domain with some exim configuration. 

p/s in the netherlands some datacenters simply do not allow you to NOT use an outbound relay service to keep their networks clean, so we could not even install spanel if we wished to do so. 

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Thank you for your reply, Patrick!

I never read about a feature request for outbound spam filtering. That's maybe because we have the SShield real time cyber security protection which first of all blocks most of the web attacks, then it notifies the website owner right after their site got compromised to fix/secure it quickly but also SShield monitors the outbound emails being sent and will also notify the server administrator in case outbound spam is detected.

If you add a reasonable maximum emails per hour limit for each user on the server, the chance a compromised account to get your IP blacklisted is very very low before SShield catches that and the administrator of the server resolves the security issue.

On top of everything, SShield doesn't cost extra and protects all SPanel powered servers.

If the demand for SpamExperts outbound increases, we'll certainly develop a one-click integration in SPanel so that anyone can use it even without technical skills.

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