Who can suggest an ethical SMTP provider for low volume transactional mail? I’m willing to pay up to 2€/month for a few hundred mails per month.
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- Mayor Poopington@lemmy.worldEnglish2 years
I bet op is one of those hippies that doesn’t like their SMTP tested on animals
- callcc@lemmy.worldEnglish2 years
Mostly that they respect the privacy of my users and that they don’t have shady business practices that want to push you towards an over-expensive paid tier.
- FlightyPenguin@lemmy.worldEnglish2 years
I don’t know what you mean by “ethical”, but I use Sendgrid. They have a free tier that can send up to 100 emails a day.
- tofubl@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish2 years
EU servers might be worth something to some people, depending on where they are in the world. And while 190% is indeed “way more expensive”, relatively speaking, it’s still “well under” your goal of EUR 2 per month.
- callcc@lemmy.worldEnglish2 years
That’s actually a good point. Will need to think about server location and GDPR compliance.
- vengefulpunk@supernova.placeEnglish2 years
I use Brevo and have not had any issues. Your usage qualifies for their free plan.
- gramie@lemmy.caEnglish2 years
I use Brevo as well. Free tier: 300 emails per day.
Very happy with them.
- hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish2 years
You could use some containerized mail server like Mailcow. They’re pretty alright to set up and should work fine for low volume. At least in my experience. Unless you don’t want to deal with mail yourself, then you should maybe consider a paid service. But I don’t have any experience with those.
- callcc@lemmy.worldEnglish2 years
I specifically want to not deal with deliverability beyond the content and volume of my mails.
- JupiterThirdMoon@lemmy.worldEnglish2 years
I use purelymail, you can register unlimited number of domains and get SMTP + IMAP in return (+ Roundcube webmail). Perfect for my usage with few automated services
- callcc@lemmy.worldEnglish2 years
Amazing! Now this is something I haven’t heard of. I think we might have a winner here! Best thing, I could use it for transactional mail on all my websites for 10€/yr. Including as many inboxes as needed. Nice!
- bmcgonag@lemmy.worldEnglish2 years
Been using Purelymail, full email, but SMTP as well, and love the service thus far.
- wraith@lemm.eeEnglish2 years
I’ll second PurelyMail. Easy to set up and they have explainers for all the various settings. I pay $10 a year for “unlimited” domains and mailboxes (some caveats but for minimal mail we won’t hit any limits).
i suspect this falls under the golden rule of 3… price,quality,[ethics].
you get to pick 2
- 2 years
Agreed, and well-articulated. I think you (OP) need to ask yourself whether you’re willing to pay the appropriate market rate for the service or not. I don’t know what that is, but I expect it’s higher than you’ve expressed.
- callcc@lemmy.worldEnglish2 years
Have a look at purelymail mentioned by others. It’s almost exactly what I’m looking for.
- 2 years
Also, we’re in beta
That means there might be a few hiccups along the way. If you run across any problems you can always let us know, and we’ll do our best to fix them.
I would have thought this is a disqualifier in terms of quality of the service, but if that’s acceptable to you then I’m glad you got something that works.
- 2 years
Check out MXRoute. (Specifically the lifetime promo, though I’ve seen it on sale for cheaper.)
- callcc@lemmy.worldEnglish2 years
Thanks but that’s not what I’m looking for. I need to send mails only.
- Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish2 years
“Low volume” vs. “A few hundred mails per month”
OK, what of the above?
- kevincox@lemmy.mlEnglish2 years
A few hundred a month is just a few per day. That is pretty low volume by most standards.
I would say in general if the SMTP server could be replaced by a single human writing and mailing snail-mail letters by hand it qualifies as low volume.
- callcc@lemmy.worldEnglish2 years
This is something you used to be able to do for free, no problem. It’s only a few of the big mail accepting companies being extra shitty about accepting mail making this tough. Looking at you Microsoft. So a few hundred mails per month is ridiculous both on storage, bandwidth and CPU consumption.
- Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish2 years
I know. I was there, before Sanford Wallace invented the email spam and forced any sane SMTP server into password protections and whitelists.
