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

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Post by johnklos »

PaulHoule wrote: post #38
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.

That's definitely not true. You can either put in the work to improve your deliverability, or you can smarthost through a provider that has a good reputation.

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

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Post by PaulHoule »

johnklos wrote: post #41
PaulHoule wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's definitely not true. You can either put in the work to improve your deliverability, or you can smarthost through a provider that has a good reputation.

How do you get big co’s like Google to answer your support emails when it is in their best interest for them to discourage the use of any other options?

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

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Post by mlhpdx »

I can second using AWS SES, which I've built on for inbound (pretty solid) and outbound (still a work in progress) email for about a dozen domains now. My needs are very-much automation focused, so perhaps not main-stream but more developer oriented. This kind of solution keeps the data in your hands, is _very_ inexpensive to run, has some respect for privacy and compliance like GDPR, and is essentially maintenance free.

[1] https://github.com/mlhpdx/email-delivery [2] https://github.com/mlhpdx/email-origin

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

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Post by geoah »

jimsmart wrote: post #22

We use Migadu for everything. There's no extra cost for extra domains, on everything but their smallest account — and as we already have an account for all of our other domains, using Migadu for side projects as well is a no-brainer.

+1 for migadu as well

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

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Post by mjomaa »

PaulHoule wrote: post #38
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.

Thats just gmail. They limit you based on reputation.

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

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Post by johnklos »

PaulHoule wrote: post #42
johnklos wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's definitely not true. You can either put in the work to improve your deliverability, or you can smarthost through a provider that has a good reputation.

How do you get big co’s like Google to answer your support emails when it is in their best interest for them to discourage the use of any other options?

You don't. Google doesn't have humans that non-paying customers can reach.

As I wrote, either you work on improving your reputation (set up all the acronyms, send lots of test messages, tell everyone you know that uses Google for mail to look in their filtered mail and tell Gmail that your mail is not junk, keep sending, et cetera), or you smarthost through a reputable service.

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

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Post by zarlo »

PaulHoule wrote: post #38
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.

i have self hosted for years never had any issues with people not getting emails

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

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Post by zarlo »

Spunkie wrote: post #37
birdman3131 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+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.

its likely you have low bounce rates so they are allowing it

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

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Post by snapplebobapple »

ensignavenger wrote: post #10

PurelyMail (purelymail.com) has been great for me! And very affordable.

I love those guys. I send around 30k emails a month programatically to our o365 domain (bunch of different users sending a bunchof different things) and it just works great.
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