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Need SMTP that woks
For a community forum I need smtp, I used amazon SES shit, Spend two days and not working , Too complicated,,, I used Mandrill it was easy to make it work but it is slow when sending emails and that Reputation shit is another thing I hate. For a huge community forum with a lot of posts, notifications etc what SMTP service do you guys recommend?
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Amazon SES, but if it's really "too complicated", then try Mailgun. First 10k/mo are free.
Thanks the problem is that I am not sure if I can trust small companies with my data. Mailgun seems to me a small company ofcourse comparing with amazon
Mailgun is run by Rackspace. They're hardly small.
Stripe, GitHub and Heroku all use them.
if you do give mandrill a chance it really does work well and your reputation and sending limit will increase quite fast.
It's sad, but sometimes small companies take customer data a lot more seriously,
than really big companies.
I agree
There are a million transactional email services out there, but all of them are ultimately pretty similar. If you don't like Amazon SES, Mandrill, or MailGun I kind of doubt you'll like any others.
That said, if you care about size SendGrid is probably the biggest transactional email provider -- they're used by Pinterest, Foursquare, Pandora, Spotify, etc.
http://sendgrid.com/
Mandrill is OK too
Mailgun is definitely a reliable choice for high deliverability.
+1 for Mandrill, the reputation is increasing pretty fast and you can actually see the email content you sent.
We use mandrill for the VPS business.
Get a VPS with a /29 or a single ip. Set up prt records etc and don't spam.
I do this with a 99% delivery rate.
Even when you run your own mail server, you still have to build your "reputation". Some spam filter providers actually keep track of the number of e-mails sent from a server in aggregate, so a new IP suddenly used to send a large amount of e-mails will be caught by these spam filters, and your message will either be blocked, quarantined, sent to spam folder, or marked as spam.
Yes, that is what I saw in quite a few cases lately, especially from microsoft, they misleadingly say the IP is on a blocklist when mxtoolbox shows only the usual spamcannibal idiots nobody uses or nobody at all. People get back to us to remove the IP but that is not the case, it is simply that Microsoft blocks new sending IPs by default.