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I am using just the bare minimum. PHP PEAR's mail wrapper and proper mx setup.

I was able to blast out 20,000 former customers without making it onto a single blacklist, send out about 300-400 emails per day, and am just about to do a blast to 35,000 current customers again. All free of charge.

Why does anybody pay for mail service, I wonder?

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Because the risk isn't worth the money saved, and I imagine if you got deliverability statistics on those e-mails you'd find that many of them don't make it to the recipient.

Many web-based companies would effectively be out of business if their web server was listed on a few major blacklists.

Don't make it as in how? Getting caught in the junk folder?

Maybe the fear of being listed as spam and being on a blacklist. Or it is hard to install and configure email sys.

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