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It will be suspended before you'll reach near 100k emails.
For that many emails you will without a doubt need a professional mail delivery service
First of all you'll need to setup DKIM SPF rDNS for each IP then you need to warm em up to make sure they're going into inbox and not spam. But still there's not guarantee.
OVH IP reputation is fairly bad. You may get a block that doesn't show up on a lot of blacklists but that doesn't mean your emails will get there.
I found a lot of larger mail services had their ranges blocked. Not necessarily for email spam. I had to resubmit removal requests to AOL every month or so despite being in their feedback loop with 0 reports. Verizon couldn't care less. Microsoft didn't want to talk about it.
Basically, deliverability from their IPs will be a nightmare. Managing your own IP reputation is quickly becoming a dice roll.
Who are you sending these emails to ?
People on the same (owned by you) or other domains (gmail, outlook, yahoo, etc).
It shouldn't be a problem if you are sending emails within your own domain (Kindly correct me if I am wrong)
Hahahaha.
Thank you for answers.
It is a list of subscribers.
I pay ~300 usd to SendGrid + SES every month. Even if I buy a small server in the premium DC with cleanest IP, looks like it wouldn't be a good replacement.
That's not too terrible given the volume at least. I love MailChannels but that's in the $499/m range.
If you could split up your sending by recipient domain you might be able to shave off cost. I never had an issue with Gmail on OVH, for the record. I bet that represents a good chunk of your list.
why not ask @jarland to make you a custom deal for your requirement. I remember reading in one of the threads where he was asking another member here to contact him wrt to mass mailing requirements
EDIT - Sorry late reply
My costs for that volume are higher than what he pays, but I'm at least happy to brainstorm and offer any advice or ideas I can
Pure emails without attachments cost less than 100$. It is 40% of payment, but Amazon charges a lot for attachments, so eventually I have to pay 250$+.
I manage a Cpanel server for a client hosted on a ovh server no email deliverability issues to Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo i dont think all of ovh's ip ranges are totally bad for email's, i do agree with Microsoft getting them to remove a ip address blocked due to other ip in the same ip ranges is totally hopeless.
Sign up to the $20 a year mxroute deal for your 2 million emails, much cheaper than $300 a month!
Sometimes you do get a good dice roll. If your luck runs out, good chance you have to start routing your mail elsewhere or leave OVH over it. Pretty tough situation to find yourself in.
How do you track this?
Gmail could put your email in the spam box without dmarc notification.
I'm extremely happy with SendGrid. They have great pricing. Mails are delivered (and appear to get marked as "important" in Gmail- which helps open rates). They have a feature rich control panel (fully featured marketing campaigns, transactional templates and more) which offers good statistics.
I agree on what you are saying gmail could just be putting them in spam, i don't have anyway to track that, the server got 200 plus domains on it mix of personal and business websites not had any complaints about mail getting rejected or going to spam.
Mailjet uses OVH infrastructure.
http://whois.domaintools.com/mailjet.com
https://twitter.com/mailjetdev/status/663993299527692288
So your comment is not fair.
Do they send from OVH IPs? Is MailJet even a decent service? Honest questions, I think I may have heard of the name once. I don't think I know anyone using their service.
I think yes. OVH is their main investor and hosting provider.
Yep, I was right.
If you dig the spf records of mailjet, you will see pure ovh ips.
http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=txt%3aspf.mailjet.com&run=toolpage
I wonder what their trick is. Pure luck or greasing palms? I think if you have enough money and/or contacts you can do a lot better than us little guys can.
Except Verizon because I think they hate money and I'm positive their abuse team has no friends :P
At that volume, I believe SES is best. It's one of those things - it's best to let someone else worry about deliverability for a small price difference (SES is really cheap for high volume)
Mailjet could ruin a myth about OVH bad reputation.
I do not believe ISPs would block OVH by default.
Use mxroute.
MXroute uses MailChannels, which will be very expensive for the maintainers of the MXroute, if a client posts 2M+ emails a month. So I guess it's forbidden to send that many of emails through MXroute.
Maybe you can pack the attachments on the cloud storage solution (like dropbox) and embed links to the attachments in email itself (to get lowered the costs on Amazon SES, if emails are cheaper without attachments).
Other than that, you may also want to check (and try) ElasticEmail.com or LeaderSend.com
Are they alive? They never answer sales tickets....
Mail deliverability management is a huge pain. If you really want to do it yourself, what I can recommend is:
After some months you should have migrated your entire user base to your own server. Be aware that you will have to look at your stats daily and take care of your server as a treasure because spammers could try to hijack it.
Good luck.
P.S.: If you want to try Cuttlefish before messing with it, request a invitation here: https://cuttlefish.oaf.org.au/
I always assumed that there was paid whitelisting with the big senders (SES, mailchimp, etc) and that's why they weren't getting internal blacklists when they get a bad signup.
Maybe i'm just jaded from tracking down spammers for so long.
Francisco