Tweet I am playing with different ways of monetizing my skills and knowledge. I wrote a white paper on how to setup your core email infrastructure in the Amazon cloud. I haven’t spent a lot of time polishing, because I am not a writer. I have spent hundreds of hours polishing the approach. I am [...]
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Tweet I strongly believe in the cloud, and more specifically in Amazon‘s approach to cloud computing. I constantly battle people on my decision to use the cloud for my core IT infrastructure. It allows me to scale my infrastructure as needed and gave a completely new face to my IT strategy and operations. I can [...]
Continue reading about Email in the Amazon Cloud Part 6 – Restored Faith in the Clouds
Tweet I was really excited when I got this email response on my ticket from Amazon Web Services: We’ve reached out to the Amazon EC2 team and here are the next steps. In order for us to proceed, we’ll need to setup DNS PTR records for EIPs (incl xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) under your AWS account. Hence could [...]
Continue reading about Email in the Amazon Cloud Part 5 – Reverse DNS
Tweet I woke up one morning and got an email from a project manager. The original email from a client had a returned email with the following email server response: Remote server replied: 550 5.7.1 … Mail from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx blocked using Trend Micro RBL+. Please see http://www.mail-abuse.com/cgi-bin/lookup?ip_address=xx.xxx.xxx.xxx We were black listed. So I went to [...]
Continue reading about Email in the Amazon Cloud Part 4 – TrendMicro Maps
Tweet Sending large amounts of email and ensuring they get received requires a lot of work and you need to make sure your mail framework is setup correctly and is healthy. This takes a lot of work and maintenance. First off I reserve 11 IP addresses with Amazon Web Services. I reserve these 11 IP [...]
Continue reading about Email in the Amazon Cloud Part 3 – Maintaining IP Addresses and DNS Quality
Tweet I needed to send a large amounts of email. We are talking 500,000 to 1 million emails in each send. These are emails being sent to encourage event attendance or interaction, so they need to go out quickly. The powers that be wanted to have emails go out in 24 hours. In the past [...]
Continue reading about Email in the Amazon Cloud Part 2 – Scaling Email for Large Blasts
Tweet SPAM black lists come in very handy for filtering out servers that potentially are sending SPAM. However every once in a while I get a server listed and I get stuck in hell. Our primary mail server got black listed yesterday at some point, and it happens to be a black list that SAP [...]
Tweet Email has become my number one enemy lately. It is sure tough to ensure the quality receipt of emails when your are doing large email blasts. You have to start at the DNS and Server Configuration and make sure your domain email records are setup correctly to reflect your email send / receipt infrastructure. [...]