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Mail Relay service/ SMTP server
Hi all,
So I have a zabbix monitoring box thats plugged into send smtp through a direct admin box however.... it also monitors the direct admin box amongst other things
So if the direct admin box goes down I'm unlikely to know as the email will have no where to go
What I'm looking for is an SMTP server that I can plug in to receive these alerts to a Gmail address..
I've looked at a few but they seem to be for "massive" volumes ... which I simply won't have
Does anyone know of an smtp service or offer an smtp service that I can make use of?
Thanks
Chip
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For low volume, you can use free gmail smtp.
Zeptomail or mail.baby
Mailjet or mail.baby
A cheap @MikePT lifetime could do the trick pretty well (I dislike lifetime deals though - sounds too scammy -, but it's not too expensive.). @jar's mxroute lowest plan would work fine as well.
SMTP2Go is free for up to 1000 emails per month which sounds like it should be sufficient for this use case.
AWS SES is dirt cheap - it’s $0.10 per 1,000 emails I believe?
Otherwise I’d recommend @jar ‘s service, MXRoute.
I use MXRoute for a low traffic site to send emails for user sign-ups and it's been perfect and super affordable
The usuals, mailjet/gun/chimp, sendgrid/inblue
@DP uses all .
Not really.
I'm MXroute-d
Using promotional deal or their regular package ?
It was a killer deal I grabbed some years ago for 50GB storage with unlimited domains/emails.
Lucky you.. I had few but now no more.
MXRoute's packages are awesome in general. I even use them to send emails on Paste.ee after SES had some delivery issues.
If you have an old Postmark account, they still let you buy and use credits with no monthly fee. New users can have 100 emails/mo. free or pay $10/mo.
I also have the legacy postmark account, and I can confirm they are prem. They had the best email delivery rate I have ever seen.
Why not send directly to Gmail? You can send over 587 with credentials.
Thanks for that however I'm always dubious of "free" as they have to maintain the infrastructure, keep the ip's clean and pay staff.... and there letting me send 12,000 emails per year for free.... there has to be a catch?
I'd rather pay 0.10 to SES and know my low usage isn't really a cost for them and that 0.10 is adding to their profit margins somewhere
That might sound odd but I've found out the hard way in the past that if you aren't buying the product they are selling something your providing and effectively you are the product
I'm biased but SES is really the one I can't legitimately slam. Everyone else I just replace part of their name with "spam" when referencing. You know, SpamGrid, Spam2Go, Spamjet, etc.
Trashy reputations really are a dime a dozen.
AFAIK they've got a lot of large corporate clients so it's like any freemium service: The paid users subsidise the free users. A lot of users would end up needing more than 1000 emails per month so the 1000 email free plan is more of a taster so people can experience their service.
Maybe it's better now, but I've gotten a bunch of spam through SES before. I reported it to Amazon and they didn't seem to do anything since I kept getting the same spam.
I've never used it. How does it compare to MXRoute or Mailchannels, which I use.
I'm asking as clients keep asking me for 'cheaper' alternatives, which I don't provide for now.
You can try Amazon SES for free for the first 62,000 emails you send each month, and $0.10 for each 1,000 emails after that.
No, that's only for emails sent from EC2 or Lambda.
@Nyr - Thank you for correcting me; I mistakenly assumed we could send the first 62000 emails to other applications as well