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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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I've read good things about migadu. Haven't used it myself.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Pretty nice but way more expensive then simplymail

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago

    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!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    SMTP2GO - 1000 free emails a month, 200 emails a per day.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I use Brevo and have not had any issues. Your usage qualifies for their free plan.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    i suspect this falls under the golden rule of 3... price,quality,[ethics].

    you get to pick 2

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Have a look at purelymail mentioned by others. It's almost exactly what I'm looking for.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Been using Purelymail, full email, but SMTP as well, and love the service thus far.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    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).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Check out MXRoute. (Specifically the lifetime promo, though I've seen it on sale for cheaper.)

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    "Low volume" vs. "A few hundred mails per month"

    OK, what of the above?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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