Here's what they wrote me about their policies- we can't use it because we don't do an opt-in confirmation because we've found that people want the email but can't be bothered to or can't always figure out how to just click on a link to confirm their subscription- they may not expect the confirmation requirement and then get mad they didn't receive their email.
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We have initiated an anti spam trap of 100 emails per hour via SMTP and
200 emails per hour via SSH/script due to high levels of spam and
phishing coming from our servers.
If you plan to use this account for bulk email purposes (500/hr max), we
will first need to ascertain that your usage is consistent with our
anti- spam policy, which you can review here:
http://www.dreamhost.com/spam.html The most important aspects of this policy, which we would like you to
address, are:
1. Whether or not you have used an opt-in confirmation process (not to
be confused with regular 'opt-in') for all of your your list's
subscribers. This is a process wherein each person who signs up for your
list is sent an email after subscribing with a tagged link in it that
they must click on before being added to the list. Those who do not
click on the link are not added, and receive no further bulk email.
2. Whether you log each confirmation with the date/time and IP address
associated with that confirmation.
3. Where we may go to independently review your opt-in confirmation
logging data.
Also, we would like to know where we may sign up for your mailing list
in order to test out its opt-in confirmation functionality.
If your bulk email usage is not in compliance with these policies, we
must ask that you cease any bulk email activity immediately until you
have become compliant. The highest limit we grant is 500/hr . If you need
to send more then that, you will need to throttle the sending. The
easiest way to do that is to use our Announcement List feature, which
you can access here:
https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=mail.list The Announcement List feature handles the opt-in confirmation and
logging aspects of the policy for you, so that you don't have to. There
is no limit/hr when using the Announcement List.
Thanks!
Glen
