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First of all, I'd advice NOT doing it yourself. (sorry epi0Bauqu).

Spammers ruined email and it can now be pretty hard to pass some spam filters. Of course, 95% of your emails will make it through if you do it yourself, but the last few % can be hard to get.

I recently started sending through Fastmail.fm for our website and it's been working fine. I simply setup sSmtp on our servers and everything that is sent through Sendmail is now relayed through Fastmail.

Another company I've considered is authsmtp.com. I haven't tried them, but their pricing seems to be very reasonable. The reason I didn't go with them is that I already had a Fastmail account (and I hate paying twice for the same thing ;-) )

We did Gmail before, but setuping Postfix to relay through them can be a major pain (mainly because of the way they authenticate). Fastmail (and I assume authsmtp) was a no-brainer.

Another thing that will help delivery tremendously is SPF. Make sure to set it properly (with hard fail if possible, ie: -all).

Good luck!




How many outbound emails does FM allow?

EDIT: Looks like for the Enhanced service, they allow 2000 messages per hour. Cost $40/year.

http://www.fastmail.fm/pages/fastmail/docs/pricingtbl.html

EDIT2: Looks like that's inbound :(


Just confirmed with FM: that's 2000 messages inbound and outbound per hour. Awesome!


No problem, I'm used to being contrarian.

Hard fail can send people who use email forwarding to their spam folders.


+1 SPF. It helps a lot with the major email providers, and it's super easy to configure.




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