Why am I being banned from SMTP services?! reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PaulLee420 · 2023-09-13 00:39 I was using SMTP2go.com for a couple years on 2oFB with no issue, until my users noticed email verification wasn't working a few months ago... I tried to login to my SMTP2go account, and it wasn't active. I THOUGHT that maybe it just ran out for non-use, or some other thing - but had trouble getting it l re-activated. Wrote it off as weird, but really just wanted to find a better solution that would work 'forever', so I moved on.. I tried gmail, but it doesn't like Mystics 'Login Auth' type... Bucko has since told me that you can set up an 'app password' that will let a specific app - Mystic - login in that way. I haven't done this yet, but might need to because... I then made a Breva.com account. It felt great - was easy to get setup, and my Mystic test email verification went right thru. Great!! Except 2 hours later I got an email saying they deactivated the account for TOS violations. I had only used it to send that one test email. What?! I then tried an SMTP.com account - and this time they said 'TOS violation' before I could even test!! Isn't that weird?? Why are they thinking Mystic is bad - or, how AM I violating their TOS's?? If you use Mystic and have a killer SMTP solution, lemme know - I just need email verification and password reset for 2oFB users... like yesterday. :P pAULIE42o /s ---------------------------------------------------------------------- recourse7 · 2023-09-13 03:02 Have you asked them? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PaulLee420 · 2023-09-13 03:42 Yes, I'm on a residential IP for sure... just thought my grimy 3 SMTP connections a week wouldn't raise eyebrows... but I guess so; but there has to be 100 other sysops doing the same thing... why me?? :P pAULIE42o /s ---------------------------------------------------------------------- recourse7 · 2023-09-13 03:44 You can always contact their support right? Ask them why you were blocked. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nodecam · 2023-09-13 17:52 Try sendgrid? That's what I use for smtp, you should fit in their free tier pretty easily. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PaulLee420 · 2023-09-14 05:17 I hate everyone .... just let 2oFB send a few emails. Grrrrrrrrrrrr. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- recourse7 · 2023-09-14 14:06 OK you sound like a silly weird person. Good luck. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- codefenix · 2023-09-14 19:36 I dunno. If one of the companies claimed a TOS violation before he could even get one message out the door like he described, then it sounds like he has a legitimate gripe, at least with that one company. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- opicron · 2023-09-14 19:48 Im using smtp to go, no issues. Just make sure yout domains are whitelisted. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- darkytoo2 · 2023-11-07 01:46 Can't do SMTP from residential IPs, the reverse DNS doesn't match and you get blacklisted pretty quickly, you have to use a smart host.