Timeline for Email Question that might not fit on SF
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| Feb 19, 2014 at 4:46 | vote | accept | cyberx86 | ||
| Feb 18, 2014 at 23:53 | comment | added | cyberx86 | @TRiG: apologies - I do that more often than I should, and catch it less often than ideal. Reading it back, I'd agree on the twitchy bit. | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 16:44 | comment | added | TRiG | The continued use of the noun setup where there should be the verb set up is making me twitchy. | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 7:13 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 17, 2014 at 23:15 | comment | added | cyberx86 | Exactly - we had slightly better luck with SES - but even that isn't enough for us to be content to send business emails. That was why we were looking for a 3rd party relay - but one for business emails not transactional or marketing emails. Time for another few searches I think. You might have set me on the right track. | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 23:08 | comment | added | Michael Hampton Mod | That's probably because you're sending directly from EC2. A few places blacklist every Amazon EC2 IP address range. I have a server on EC2, and I relay all its mail through a little VPS at some other small $PROVIDER nobody's ever heard of. It gets 99%+ delivered. | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 23:06 | comment | added | cyberx86 | That is the thing. The email volume is tiny and we would have no technical issues setting up things on our own servers (and we could do it for a lot less than $780/yr, given the small volume). We use EC2 for our servers - but our elastic IPs aren't blacklisted, and we have everything else setup (SPF, DKIM, etc. and the emails are handwritten - so the content is of good quality). We don't have an ISP for our business (we don't operate out of a building and are spread across about 100km). Sending from our servers though, we always seem to get around 10% of emails ending up in spam folders. | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 23:01 | comment | added | Michael Hampton Mod | Come to think of it, at that volume you could probably use your ISP's SMTP relay for free. Presuming, of course, that this is not bulk mail but simply routine person-to-person mail. | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 22:58 | comment | added | Michael Hampton Mod | At 30 messages per day I doubt I would even bother with a third party service. If you have an email admin who is even halfway clueful, you can manage deliverability for such a low volume yourself. | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 22:56 | comment | added | cyberx86 | Well, what I meant was more that we already have servers, we already run Postfix, and we can easily setup inboxes. We are a small startup, so costs are more of a concern initially than time. What I would like, ideally, is a 3rd party SMTP relay which is designed for business/personal emails, and bills by the 1000 emails, instead of with a monthly fee for each address. We have several addresses that have sent and received perhaps 10 emails in the last year - but we have paid $75 for each of them. | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 22:54 | answer | added | Michael HamptonMod | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 22:51 | comment | added | Michael Hampton Mod | Yes, you can set it up in-house, but can you do it for $780 per year? The answer is probably no... | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 22:47 | history | asked | cyberx86 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |