I'm curious to hear what the best SMTP server providers are for things like forgotten password emails etc. I've used Amazon SES before, but I don't want to create an AWS account to send some emails. Are there any other SMTP server providers who are reasonably cheap and can handle increasing traffic over time?
Which SMTP provider do you use to send transactional emails?
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Mr. Jinx
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https://MXRoute.com works great for me, very reliable.
dknife
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I used to use SendGrid but realize how ridiculously expensive it is (relatively speaking for my small site) unless you're sending a high volume of emails. I switched to AWS SES which was easy to setup and saved some $. Haven't had any issues with delivery other than the usual bad actors.
MySiteGuy
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This is the use case for why I switched three clients to SES over the past two weeks.
I use mxroute in some of these cases too - for example if they need easier to manage inboxes (especially browser based), have many email addresses, and are within the 300 mails per hour limit.
MySiteGuy
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No issues with it.
Mr. Jinx
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but MXRoute also seems to do this? I just checked it with an email sent from my site to my personal email address.
I could not find any relation to the origin host.
Strip Outgoing IP Address Headers
I couldn’t find in a FAQ anywhere, so just wondering, can MXRoute automatically strip the Received IP address headers for privacy sake?
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eva2000
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I haven't used MXRoute for sending for Xenforo as their hourly limits wouldn't be suited for forum/transactional emails usually. But just tested this on a test Xenforo forum and yup MXRoute does strip the real server IP for originating email from the server as MXRoute uses a mail server relay and that probably strips the originating IP before handing off to their mail server that actually sends the email. So your receiving email headers will have the from mail server IP belonging to the intermediate relay server IP and not your server IP.
However, that stripping of real server originating IP only applies to external outbound emails. Local emails to same domain/mail server will still reveal the originating real server IP. So if you have MXRoute domain user@domain1 sending emails to user2@domain1, the real server IP address is still shown in the mail headers for receiving email. So you want to be sure to trust your local users with the knowledge of your real server IP address when using MXRoute smtp for web apps like Xenforo or Wordpress
Also I posted a guide for MXRoute for Centmin Mod users but might help others https://community.centminmod.com/threads/using-mxroute-com-for-yourdomain-emails.22409/
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beerForo
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When you start with AWS SES, if you use the same email address do you bring the reputation with you or start over? The reason I ask is, let's say my email is "info@" but I figured, for these transactional emails, I will just go ahead and create a new address when setting up SES. Is that good/bad/doesn't really matter? Thanks.
Mr Lucky
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I may be wrong, but I thought the reputation went with the domain or IP address rather than the specific email address at that domain.
eva2000
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Never had any problems requesting getting out of sandbox. Amazon would want you out of the sandbox as that's how they charge you and make $$$
Mr Lucky
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I have to say I didn't get on with SES. I know it comes highly recommded but just seemed to be very fiddly to set up with less than user friendly support docs. maybe I should give it another try, but I just remembered at one time I got a lot of bounces when sending to @btineternt addresses.