[DUG] TIdSMTP and XTRA Secure Remote Email

[Alister Christie]

Yeah, they also have some anti-harvesting stuff.  When doing a big BCC 
email I've been splitting emails up into groups of 45 recipients, but 
xtra have some annoying error messages that don't inform you which 
recipient is bad (out of the 45) - I guess I could just perform a sort 
of binary search to find out which one it is.  I havn't run into any 
problems sending out a seperate email to each user - except that some 
virus scanners can't keep up.

Alister Christie
Computers for People
Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
http://www.salespartner.co.nz
PO Box 13085
Johnsonville
Wellington 



Robert martin wrote:
> Hi they told us some of them (we must be too nice).
>
> I think the core rule was you cant send an email to more than 99 (49?) 
> email addresses in one go.  However if you want to send an email to 
> 1000 there is nothing stopping you sending it as 11 separate < 100 
> address emails.
>
> I hope I haven't just destroyed national security :)
>
> Rob Martin
> Software Engineer
>
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> Alister Christie wrote:
>> Xtra is just evil in my opinion.  I've had lots of problems sending 
>> bulk emails - they have spam rules in place but won't let on as to 
>> what they are, lest the real spammers find out and work around them.
>>
>> Alister Christie
>> Computers for People
>> Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
>> http://www.salespartner.co.nz
>> PO Box 13085
>> Johnsonville
>> Wellington
>>
>>
>> John Davys wrote:
>>>
>>> I use XTRA's Secure Remote Email service and am trying to use an 
>>> Indy TIdSMTP component (BDS2006, Indy 10.1.5) to send an email 
>>> message via XTRA's smtp server. This server (smtpr.xtra.co.nz) 
>>> requires user authentication and SSL to send through it.
>>>
>>> I can send messages to myself or my colleagues who also have xtra 
>>> mailboxes, but if I try to send to a non-XTRA mailbox I get an 
>>> EIdSMTPReplyError exception, with code 550 reported i.e. "Requested 
>>> action not taken: mailbox unavailable", so I guess XTRA has 
>>> tightened up its security and is now assuming I am a spammer and is 
>>> blocking me since this used to work fine.
>>>
>>> Has anyone managed to work out the combinations of properties for a 
>>> TIdSMTP & associated TIdSSLIOHandlerSocketOpenSSL component (since 
>>> the Secure Remote service requires SSL) and TIdMessage that will 
>>> work with XTRA?
>>>
>>> I've tried pretending to be Outlook 2003 (my normal mail client) by 
>>> setting TIdSMTP.MailAgent to "Microsoft Office Outlook 11" etc which 
>>> didn't work (this sets the X-Mailer header). Other settings I'm 
>>> using with TIdSMTP:
>>>
>>> AuthType = atDefault
>>> Host = smtpr.xtra.co.nz
>>> Port = 465
>>> UseEhlo = true
>>>
>>> Plus my Username and Password of course.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> John
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>>
>>> John Davys, Senior Consultant, Database Systems
>>> Rezare Systems Limited
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