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MXroute, Mail.baby are both great choices. You could also get a shared hosting package with MC/MB included as well
How many emails do you send per hour?
iCloud. Works well even if you don’t use Apple products I’d bet.
I use it for my WordPress SMTP Email sending with a custom domain.
It’s Apple, so it’s reliable in the sense that yoy can be sure it’s not gone when you wake up, and it’s less than a buck monthly.
Shameless plug OnePoundEmail is also an option not sure if he is here or not sooooo.....
@jar
i am always confused with "email delivery" people.
i have been a racknerd user for like 2years now. selfhosted email server that i set up once and that is it.
i have good deliverability with gmail and others (initial few days had trouble) but since then, it has been smooth sailing.
why should i pay a third party for sending emails when my email box from racknerd is perfectly capable?
i use this as a regular email and not marketing so i don't know if that will be different but yeah
I understand the reasoning behind using your VPS for email, and I know there are a lot of use cases, but third party email is a good option for a lot of situations and worth considering.
Your needs may be different than mine of course, but for me, I don't bother with using my server for email. I've had too many problems over the years, the OP example is just one of them.
IMO it helps to decouple and isolate the issues I might be having from other services on the server, network, deliverability issues, IP reputation, general reliability, potential conflicts with provider(s) and their various policies, simplifying support requests (do I really want my VPS provider to be touching email issues at all? IP reputation alone is outside the scope of most providers), and it really helps to simplify admin issues. Not to mention security issues.
IMO, never mix email with other hosting if you can avoid it, and leave email to email experts. YMMV and of course it depends entirely what you need email for. But I find paying for third party services absolutely worth it, reliability goes way up, headaches go way down. There are specialist email providers for every kind of need and every budget.
Any pricing page ? Is this correct one → https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201238 ?
Yep, that’s it.
You pay by the capacity of the plan, so I pay for 50 GB, the smallest one.
They all include support for adding custom domains.
If you do this: When looking att Apple’s turorial for setting up SMTP, do note that when using a custom domain, you’d change the sending adress to the custom domain, but the username would still be your main iCloud email, not the custom email that you’re sending from.
Cheap mxroute yearly, or @MikePT cheapest "Lifetime" deal are two options. You then can setup postfix so that it uses their relay for specific domains.
Scaleway transactional emails could maybe do the job (depending on what you're trying to send), with a free tier of 300 emails per month.