Email Delivery Provider Recommendation

[purplehead]

I was using mailjet, which worked pretty good, but most of their functionity is hidden behind paid options that you can only pay with a credit card (not a debit card) and instead I switched to Brevo. This works perfect, and setup is a breeze, if you are using cloudflare. Also it comes with in built automations, so you can add people that sign up to your site to your contacts.

They give you the SMTP details that you need for the website software, and delivery is always above 9/10 for mail tester.

Good thing they have too is real time last 30 minutes, and per second stats.

 

[armory]

Looks great, but a little pricey.

I use Zeptomail, $2.5 per 10k emails.

 

[user_83d32]

Looks great, but a little pricey.

I use Zeptomail, $2.5 per 10k emails.

I second ZeptoMail. Also, for a smaller volume and simpler stats, the SMTP2GO free tier is pretty good.

 

[Rodolfo]

Try AWS SES, it goes deadly cheap.

 

[Barry]

Try AWS SES, it goes deadly cheap.

AWS are playing hardball with getting approval to exit the sandbox.

I use smtp2go - works great.

 

[Mortgage]

I previously used Mailjet and SendGrid but when SendGrid joined Twilio everything just went down the pan! Switched to Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) just over a year ago and haven't had an issue since (free plan) on multiple sites and projects.

Do wish Brevo had a dark mode UI though, IRL flashbang.

I will check Zeptomail out from above recommendations.

 

[konj]

When you're a developer running multiple web projects, whether websites or apps, you won’t get far without a proper email service. And when the costs start adding up, things can get tricky. That’s why I recommend simply getting an affordable VPS and setting up something like Mail-in-a-Box.
Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by providing a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP and everything-else server, basically, a complete mail server in a box. It’s very easy to set up, and you’ll face almost no limitations.

GitHub - mail-in-a-box/mailinabox: Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a box.

Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a box. - mail-in-a-box/mailinabox

github.com

 

[armory]

When you're a developer running multiple web projects, whether websites or apps, you won’t get far without a proper email service. And when the costs start adding up, things can get tricky. That’s why I recommend simply getting an affordable VPS and setting up something like Mail-in-a-Box.
Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by providing a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP and everything-else server, basically, a complete mail server in a box. It’s very easy to set up, and you’ll face almost no limitations.

GitHub - mail-in-a-box/mailinabox: Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a box.

Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a box. - mail-in-a-box/mailinabox

github.com

Any recommendations for a VPS suitable for mail server?

 

[Rodolfo]

Any recommendations for a VPS suitable for mail server?

Anything with good network should work, for email delivery you need to really worry about using a good IP address, the concept in the industry is "hot IP" as a new IP is "cold" and a reported IP will trigger spam filters.

IP addresses used for email sending get trashed all the time, specially if you send a lot of emails.

 

[konj]

Any recommendations for a VPS suitable for mail server?

Many VPS providers (especially budget ones like Google Cloud, AWS Lightsail, Oracle, Contabo, etc.) block outbound TCP port 25 to prevent spam, try Netcup 😉