What's "ethical"?
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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.
I've read good things about migadu. Haven't used it myself.
Pretty nice but way more expensive then simplymail
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.
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
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.
I use Brevo and have not had any issues. Your usage qualifies for their free plan.
i suspect this falls under the golden rule of 3... price,quality,[ethics].
you get to pick 2
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.
Have a look at purelymail mentioned by others. It's almost exactly what I'm looking for.
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.
Been using Purelymail, full email, but SMTP as well, and love the service thus far.
Check out MXRoute. (Specifically the lifetime promo, though I've seen it on sale for cheaper.)
AWS SES is like 10 cent per thousand email.
"Low volume" vs. "A few hundred mails per month"
OK, what of the above?
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.
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.
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