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Decent free external mail service? (besides Google Apps)
erhwegesrgsr
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Hi,
I was working on a robust solution to host mail servers to give my members an email address completely free of charge.
Google Apps is VERY nice as people would have their own Gmail yet it has a free user limit and not sure if it has an API for creating email accounts.
Any recommendations on externally hosted free mailservers or somebody interested in delivering such a thing?
If not, then I'll probably build a forwarder based email system.
Thanks in advance.
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http://domains.live.com/
Up to 500 users, can request more for free. There's a PHP thingy too: http://blog.jeltel.com.au/2010/03/php-class-for-windows-live-admin-center.html?m=1
@ihatetonyy
Thanks, that could work out quite well
I use postmark for outbound, the first 1,000 are free.
Amazing service imo, the rates are really cheap after the first 1k too.
@BronzeByte - You could easily set up your own mail server. Here is a tutorial on how to do it: http://library.linode.com/email/postfix/gateway-debian-6-squeeze
You can easily adapt it to your favorite Linux Distribution, and you can probably find a decent VPS to run it on at a good price. It surely beats the hell out of some other more expensive solutions.
No, it doesn't. All large scale mail transport providers have agreements with the large scale mail hosts to keep the flow going. That's the only reason you see the corproates opting for Sendgrid/Postmark, the cost is pretty marginal though.
Try doing any serious mailing with local stuff, you aren't likely to get far.
And no, before the smartasses come in, serious mailing != spamming.
anyone know the exact sending limit of google app? it looks less than advertised.
What do you expect for free...?
And wanting to create mass accounts sounds like abuse to me.
Yep, that and SendGrid are top-notch.
Dealt with this for over 10 days with a client who was mass mailing to their local subscribers.. we should just let him enjoy the fun that is waiting for him. I'd seriously pay out of pocket to somebody than deal with email servers.
@bamn My thoughts exactly, it's such a pain in the behind to do it right. And even then, you have idiotic providers blocking you left and right.
I'd rather pay Postmark than deal with it, which is exactly what I did.
Also, Hi @orien. We don't see you here often, you should try to be more active
(I'm a fan of your Cleverkite stuff, keep it up!)
AT&T is better to deal with than Comcast for blacklist related stuff, let me tell you that from experience
The most painful one so far I've had to deal with is Yahoo.
Do they have mindless drones working there or something...? :V
My blog email is running on Yandex.ru which works pretty fine, has all webmail/pop3/imap/smtp with SSL. try mail.nsbeta.info
zoho mail:)
(duplicate)
created a live.com domain account. Tested. Same as hotmail or free upgrade to outlook.com.
Very good free services but unfortunately it does not support catch all mail.
Does it support DKIM?
The reason I still stick with Google Apps because it got DKIM 
Though you can set up SPF/DKIM/etc for local mail exchange, but yea it makes it handy, and you'll want to use DKIM anyways for all your mail accounts since everyone else would pass the SPF records easily if they too are using google apps to send (in case they decided to put something like your email in the from).