Technical Standards
The following technical requirements apply to the delivery of Internet e-mail through Pioneer Internet's e-mail network.- Pioneer Internet's servers will not accept connections from unsecured systems. These include open relays, open proxies, open routers, or any other system that has been determined to be available for unauthorized use.
- Pioneer Internet's mail servers will not accept connections from systems that use dynamically assigned IP addresses.
- Pioneer Internet will not deliver e-mail that contains a numeric Universal Resource Locator (URL). (Ex: http://0.0.0.0)
- Pioneer Internet's mail servers may reject connections from IP addresses which have no reverse-DNS (PTR record assigned).
- Pioneer Internet may reject connections from servers whose recipient lists consistently generate a higher than 10% bounce failure rate. (i.e. over 10% of a sender's mailing list is destined for users that do not exist on our system)
- Pioneer Internet may reject connections from senders who are unable to accept at least 90% of the bounce-return messages (mailer-daemon failure/error messages) destined for their systems.
- Complaints submitted by Pioneer Internet members can be used as a basis for refusing connections from systems.
- Pioneer Internet may provide daily communications to postmaster@ and abuse@domain name (or @IP address if no reverse-DNS or PTR records are present) to senders who may be in violation of Pioneer Internet's guidelines.
- Pioneer Internet's mail servers will not accept connections from systems that are configured with residential IP addresses.
Please Note: Pioneer Internet uses member feedback to assist in the identification of the sources of Unsolicited Bulk Email.