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senortim

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Curious about CAN-SPAM
July 09, 2008, 12:10:27 pm
My web host (Dreamhost) is super rigorous about CAN-SPAM compliance. I see in your wiki that DH is one place where people are using CiviCRM.

Lobo, does your reply in http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,850.0.html mean that CiviCRM is compliant with CAN-SPAM? Any gaps?

I'm hoping they will raise their shell limit (since my list is only 400ish contacts, with <5 campaigns/yr), but they will probably need me to prove compliance.

Thanks!
Tim

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Re: Curious about CAN-SPAM
July 09, 2008, 12:23:02 pm

Tim:

We dont know if we are compliant with CAN-SPAM. We have not read it in the recent past to make that statement. Would be great if you can take a look at the most recent CAN-SPAM statement and see if CiviMail meets all the criteria

You might want to consider using CiviSMTP as your backend to process mail and avoid installing CiviMail on DH

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senortim

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Re: Curious about CAN-SPAM
July 09, 2008, 12:56:49 pm
OK, thanks. I'm going to be experimenting with CiviCRM over the next couple of months and I'll do what I can to raise any concerns (acknowledging that I'm a newbie with CiviCRM and a novice with bulk emailing.)

--Tim

senortim

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Re: Curious about CAN-SPAM
July 11, 2008, 10:55:26 pm
OK, by CiviSMTP do you mean the UAS host? Also, I'm unclear on whether this is a replacement for CiviMail (as your message implies). From what I read of the documentation, it looks like CiviMail is still required to configure the SMTP info. Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Tim

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Re: Curious about CAN-SPAM
July 11, 2008, 11:01:15 pm

yes, i mean the UAS host

CiviSMTP replaces the mail server configuration (the postfix/amavisd/imap2soap...) part of CiviMail. Basically you skip the install of components auxilary to CiviCRM (like amavisd)

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senortim

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Re: Curious about CAN-SPAM
July 11, 2008, 11:21:02 pm
Interesting. Thanks for the (very!) quick reply. :-)
Tim
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