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Ask HN: What email service(s) do you use for your side projects?

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Re: Ask HN: What email service(s) do you use for your side projects?

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Post by SparkyMcUnicorn »

Others have mentioned Fastmail, and it really is great. But I don't think it's the final stop if you want transactional emails.

Decided to try out Cloudflare email routing[0], and have it routing to Fastmail and/or Gmail. I'm not using email workers for much yet, but it's a pretty cool feature.

I'd definitely recommend it as a super easy way to just get email working for a domain, and just route the emails to/from your existing email accounts.

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/email-routing/

EDIT: removed CF MailChannels integration note. Apparently it's been axed.

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/mailchannels-end-of-life-...

Re: Ask HN: What email service(s) do you use for your side projects?

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Post by FlyingAvatar »

romanhn wrote: post #27

It's a mix. I use my registrar's (Porkbun) email service for human communication (name@, support@, etc). Added those accounts to my personal Gmail inbox so I can send/receive using Gmail instead of logging into the registrar's webmail. Eventually will move to something like Google Workspace most likely, which is a bit more expensive. I use AWS SES for transactional emails (mostly send, but making use of the receive c…

This is exactly how I handle my mail as well.

Re: Ask HN: What email service(s) do you use for your side projects?

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Post by Spunkie »

birdman3131 wrote: post #23
Spunkie wrote: post #11

mxroute for real projects, or migadu for tiny things

+1 for mxroute. Works great for anything but spam or marketing email. Those get a quick ban and a downgrade from valued customer to scum of the earth.

We actually do use mxroute for our marketing email just fine, but we are also low volume and go way above and beyond qualifying leads.

Nobody likes a cold call/email.

Re: Ask HN: What email service(s) do you use for your side projects?

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Post by PaulHoule »

johnklos wrote: post #29

You can self host email. There are plenty of how-tos, prepackaged packages, even books: https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ryoms I'm writing my own how-to which includes finding suitable Internet providers and includes setting up smarthosting in case you can't get a good address for yourself.

You can self host email but less (maybe much less) than 50% of what you send will actually be received by the recipient, particularly for recipients at major providers like gmail, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What email service(s) do you use for your side projects?

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Post by PaulHoule »

dboreham wrote: post #4

OP wanted to send and receive, which afaik neither Mailgun nor SES does. Recommend Fastmail.

If you need to send (and have better than 50% get through) and receive you're probably going to set up a service like Fastgmail to handle receiving and personal sending and send your automated mails out through something like mailgun, SES, sendgrid, etc.

You have to properly set up your DNS records so that all your sending servers authenticate properly.

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