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Email Hosting
I need some reliable email hosting.
Needs to be able to:
Send up to 40,000 emails per month (average is 35,000)
Multiple Domains (8 domains)
Catchall and redirect to a master email
Some points to note:
Complies with Canadian CAN-SPAM act
Has opt-in, and opt-out
Fully public whois information is on the domains, and users whom get messages opted-in
Let me know if you can supply this, I've looked at big providers like Mailgun (whom closed my account because they didn't believe me, despite showing them proof), Mandrill I was using up until recently when there was issues with successful deliveries (only 40% would deliver for some reason, as opposed to the 85% delivery rate before).
I can pay via one of the following options:
PayPal (Verified)
Visa (Canada)
Mastercard (Canada)
Bitcoin
My preference is either mastercard or bitcoin.
Let me know what you can do. I'm not looking to spend over $100/mo, as with my last provider I ended up spending $450/mo for 8 domains sending emails.
Comments
https://billing.mxroute.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=36
Basically what you're paying for here is MailChannels. Never get a bounce due to IP reputation issues.
+1 with mxroute, you will not disapointed how to @jarland make everything goes well in your business.
I can tell you just host it on a vps as I currently run my mail server off of a vps on my cluster and it is running zimbra ose since that is the easiest setup and maintenance software I have found yet as I have used exchange 2013 before but exchange 2013 was a little too hard to set up and if you did get it setup correctly you better hope you don't mess up anything as anything just a little screw up causes mass chaos trying to fix so that is why I use zimbra instead.
@timnboys, it would appear that you missed the part where the OP wants to send 40k emails on a monthly basis.
@GCat, outsource it and don't have the hassle of mail delivery. Either use mxroute or work out an alternative with @jarland's advice.
it appears I did as I didn't notice the OP was going to use it for what seems like email marketing so if the OP wants to make sure it is delivered use mxroute or use something else for mass email marketing.
You really want people to send 35000 mails a month?
Will my 5$/y plan work for that?
Edit: Just saw it is 7.5$/y, sorry.
I'm cool with it, but would prefer that they're on the higher cost plan. I'm flexible like a moving truck. I can probably move this over and toss a couch on top of these boxes, but obviously I can't house a thousand couches in it.
Most people don't have excessive needs in sending so I can take on a few bulk senders as long as my trajectory continues down a positive path to be able to increase costs with MailChannels without impacting percent of profit greatly. I'll probably be upgrading to their $250/m plan soon.
So, I guess the answer is:
Is there a way to send all mail that bounces because of a blacklist through mxroute and for everything else, use your own server?
Surely, but it would have to be scripted externally.
@jarland without knowing the hygiene of his mailing list and bounce rate (hard/soft), it will be kind of big problem offering him send bulk mail.
Unless you are planning to isolate these outgoing services on a separate box & IP, you are seriously going to compromise the "reputation" for other domains hosted for emails.
Over and above...an email provider offering bulk mail service is quite astonishing in itself. Just my 2 cents!
That's the beauty of it, at MXroute you will never face any kind of deliverability penalty due to the actions of other customers. This is due to the fact that I use MailChannels for all outgoing mail. These features define it:
Should any customer begin sending out spam, MailChannels will block those outgoing emails. In the event that they do not, it will not affect other customers due to #1 and #3 above.
How do you handle SPF records with MailChannels - and other sender verification stuff?
include:relay.mailchannels.net for SPF, DKIM passes through in the headers and MailChannels doesn't strip it.
Gotcha. Just wasn't sure how that worked if they randomize sender IPs. Unless they've got like a bajillion A records for that subdomain. (Mail deliverability isn't something I've dug too far into, I just pay Google/Rackspace/MailChimp/SES/etc and trust that they'll get it where it needs to go).
Didn't realize MailChannels was local to me either, office is located in Vancouver.
@jarland To include mailchannels as SPF record, it looks something like
as a TXT DNS record, right?
Okay, DKIM is pretty straightforward, but you lost me on the SPF… when using your service, you ask clients to input:
v=spf1 +a +mx include:mxroute.com -all
Including mxroute.com should include its includes, and so on and so forth, right?
Interesting. Any limitation on how deep can this kind of including go?
cPanel really sucks for using as just SMTP, VestaCP you just make an email account and use it's SMTP details to send all emails, and you only have a single login for webmail - whereas cPanel you need to make different accounts for different sending addresses and I never got it working.
Hmm? Should be equal in that regard. But you should always SMTP authenticate with the address you want to send as or its effectively spoofing the "From" header and it reduces your chance of inbox delivery.
There surely is but I haven't had any SPF errors with MailChannels relating to recursion limits.
@GCat
If you are still looking, I may have something for you. Drop me a PM if interested.
@GCat You can use $5 MXroute plan for receiving emails and SparkPost's free plan with 100,000 emails included each month, for sending your emails (to not use too much of MXroute's outgoing MailChannels quota).
By the way, @jarland will there still be any offer with MXroute for $5 per year? I will need that type of affordable account for receiving email and replying to it (no spam or mass sending).
Probably not. I'm particularly not pleased with the ticket volume they generate. Loss leaders that increase manual intervention requirements make me sad
Awww c'mon @jarland! Cut the annoying customers and please give us a $5/year deal that'll inspire us to pull out our wallets in an instant.
I went the other direction, spring special in my signature :P
springhost :-)
How can I migrate email from google for works to your service @jarland ?
I don't generate that many tickets
Same.