About using desktop PCs for mass bulk email or mail server

PC mail server for MailsBroadcast

Step 1. At System Manager - Email Delivery Setup
SMTP Server: Enter PCs Server Name
Notes:
To identify your PCs email server name? More info
Notes:
This tells MailsBroadcast to send email to your PCs (server name) mail server program and send (relay) emails out directly to your recipients ISPs mail server (to bypass your ISPs mail server).

Step 2. At Message Manager - Delivery Setup
Sender email: Enter sender Email Address
Reply to email: Enter an Email Address
Notes:
Using a *non-existing FROM (sender) email--and when the recipient ISP mail server perform a reverse lookup--the *non-existing sender domain considered a non local users and connection terminate.

Step 3. Log-on into the Internet
Check: your ISPs DNS Server IP Address? More info
Enter: your ISPs DNS Server IP into AgroSoft? More info
At: MailsBroadcast
Go to: Message Manager
And: Start Broadcasting

Notes:
Some ISPs mail servers that do not accept connections through direct mailers and bounce your email with 550 error message or are blocking their Port 25 to reduce spam, therefore, will only accept emails via your ISPs mail server--in this case you won't be able to use your PCs as a mail server. See: Mail Server FAQs

nslookup reverse lookup a DNS whois tool that perform forward and reverse DNS queries for the current address (this will usually give you the IP address of a hostname and the hostname of an IP address)

Non-local user Many ISP mail servers prevent relaying of SPAM by not allowing emails to be sent--that is outside a sender domain. Meaning that; the FROM or (Reply To) is using an email domain that is different from the log-in domain

Benefits of using a PCs mail server?

Benefits of using a PCs mail server

By using your PCs as a mail server, you can send unlimited email messages without restrictions--because most ISPs limit user access to their mail server by time or the quantity of emails that can be sent.

When you are using your PCs as a mail server, the email will be sent directly to your recipient's mailbox via their ISP mail server and bypass your ISPs mail server delivery queue.

Single thread mail server can send between 500 to 5,000 or more text emails per hour with a 56Kbps V92 or ISDN modem--depending on your Internet connection bandwidth or throughput and the mail server. *single-thread, means that emails are sent-out one after another--after the recipient mail server have accepted each email sent--the program will then proceed to send the next email (if it is not accepted, it will be kept in queue to be resend later).

**Multiple thread mail server programs (send multiple emails simultaneously to recipients ISPs mail server). They can send very large volume of emails (250,000 text mails) through Broadband system like: DSL 256/516kbps, ADSL 12/480 Mbps, or Network/Cable T1 (1.544Mbps) Internet connection using powerful high performance dedicated mail server.

Note: Different ISPs provide different up-load and download speed--meaning that having a 256/512Kbps DSL or 480Mbps USB 2.0 High Speed or Full Speed 12 Mbps 2.0 USB ADSL download does not mean that you can up-load at the same speed, check it up with your ISPs. It also depends on whether your motherboard support USB 2.0 (1.1 device) Full Speed device or the USB 2.0 High Speed--meaning that if you have a ADSL 2.0 USB Full Speed Modem running on USB 1.1 then you only get 12 Mbps

Emailing speed can be as slow as 500 or 5,000 text message per hour (depending on message size) using a 56K or ISDN, DSL at the lower end and for ADSL, Network/Cable T1 (1.544Mbps) connection, may even send up-to 250,000 emails per hour--depending on the Internet connection throughput and computer mail server system capability.

For more info about speed of broadcasting emails...
See: Email Speed
See: Mail Server FAQs

About DNS Servers and IP address?

About DNS Servers and IP address?

If you are using an email client (Outlook Express or Eudora) to send email, for example, if you have an account with AOL you will be sending it to its Outgoing mail SMTP aol.com and AOL.com is the nameserver

Therefore, to use your PCs as a mail server, you will also need a nameserver to identify itself to all your recipients ISP mail server. See: IP Addresses and DNS

How to identify your PCs mail server name?

For Windows 95/98/Me
Click >Start>Settings >Control Panel>Network >Identification and you will be able to identify your PCs name (note it down).

For Windows 2000,NT,XP
Click >Start >Settings>Control Panel >System>Computer Name >Computer Description: (enter name, note it down).

Notes:
Windows 2000,NT,XP Users may need to setup a Network for Internet before a name can be entered: Click >Start>Settings >Network Connections >Network Setup Wizard--and follow instructions.

How to Identify your ISPs DNS Server IP Address?

To bypass your ISPs mail server and send (relay) email to another domain--your recipients ISPs mail server, you will need to know and make use your ISPs DNS IP Address

Notes: ISP DNS server IP Address has nothing to do with the process of email message delivery. It merely serves to turn the IP address--a series of four 8 bit numbers, ie: 151.196.75.10 into a domain name www.memydomain.com

Therefore, sending emails via your PCs mail server will not jeopardize your ISPs DNS server in any way when you enter its address--ie: 151.196.75.10 into your PCs mail server program. The DNS server is used by all Internet program or web browsers to access the Internet.

However, all ISPs DNS server IP Address represents a location on the Internet, therefore, who owns or administers the block of IP address can be traced with an IP Block whois tool to query the Internic database--it means that:

Every e-mail sent will have a point at which it was injected into the information stream. Emails are always generated from a real computer from which it was sent and can be traced by looking at the message header.

Dial-up users IP address, although always different, each time they connect into the Internet--can be easily traced, because your ISP will have a unique login/logout end-user logs file of a particular unique account holder--Exact TIME, DAY, DATE, DURATION, PHONE number and LOCATION used to broadcast emails.

Dial-up modem users will need to check their ISPs DNS IP Address each time they log-in--because it changes with each each log-in. Always-on users (ISDN, DSL, Cable, Network etc.) will have a permanent DNS Server IP Address--just check with your ISPs or System Administrator.

How to identify your ISPs DNS Server IP Address for dial-up modem users? Get on-line and follow below procedures:

Throughput? The outgoing & incoming datagram Bits.Bytes between your computer, ISP connection and the Internet network. PING your ISP servers to determine connection throughput.

Windows 95/98/Me Windows 2000,NT,XP (further down)
After you have log-in to the Internet, click:
>Start >Run >Open >key-in: winipcfg >Click OK

Then
At the dialog box, click>More Info button to display your dial-up DNS Server--Notice the DNS Servers IP Address: 204.101.251.2

Note: Dial-up modem DNS Servers changes with each log-in and will need to go through this procedure each time and key-in the DNS Servers address into their mail server program--unless, the PCs mail server program have auto detect DNS Server features.

Windows 2000,NT,XP
Log-in to the Internet and then click:
>Start >Run >Open >key-in: cmd.exe >Click OK

At the command prompt key in: ipconfig/all and hit enter

Setting up your PCs as a mail server?

Setting up your PCs as a mail server
A freeware version available from www.argosoft.com

To use your PCs as a mail server, you need a mail server program. The function of a mail server program is to send emails from your PCs directly to your recipients ISP mail server and bypass your own ISP mail server.

Using ArGoSoft Mail Server Freeware program
You don't need to be connected (on-line) to set it up.

Dial-up modem users
For now, enter your point back "loopback" address 127.0.0.1 You will need to check the current DNS Server IP Address and enter it here every time you log-on before you can send email from your PCs.

Notes: The DNS server IP address has nothing to do with the process of email message delivery. It merely serves to turn the IP address--a series of four 8 bit numbers, ie: 151.196.75.10 into a domain name www.mydomainsite.com - that's all. See (above) DNS Server

Always on DSL, ADSL, Network, Cable users
Enter your DNS Server IP Address and no more changes required thereafter.

That's it, you are all set and ready to send email from MailsBroadcast--using your PCs as a mail server. Dial-up modem user must remember to log-on, check and change the DNS Server IP Address before any emails can be sent.

Notes:
Any undelivered emails will be keep in ArGoSoft outbox pending delivery at a later time--undeliverable mail could be due to various reason like recipient mail box busy, mail server busy, server down etc.
See: Why some email address can't be sent "off & on"?

To delete or remove any undelivered mails from ArGoSoft C:\program files (where it was installed) ArGoSoft, outbox

How does your email gets to the recipient?
See: How email works?

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