I'm not being glib. Really ask yourself if it's necessary to email this information to users. If I get email from a company and I don't want it, I don't like your company. If your company has information that you think is important to me, notify me next time I log in. Let me determine whether or not it's important.
Ask YC: What do you use for outbound email sending?
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Re: Ask YC: What do you use for outbound email sending?
#42Re: Ask YC: What do you use for outbound email sending?
#43First of all, I'd advice NOT doing it yourself. (sorry epi0Bauqu). Spammers ruined email and it can now be pretty hard to pass some spam filters. Of course, 95% of your emails will make it through if you do it yourself, but the last few % can be hard to get. I recently started sending through Fastmail.fm for our website and it's been working fine. I simply setup sSmtp on our servers and everything that is sent throug…
Re: Ask YC: What do you use for outbound email sending?
#44What makes you think you're not spending spam? I'm not being glib. Really ask yourself if it's necessary to email this information to users. If I get email from a company and I don't want it, I don't like your company. If your company has information that you think is important to me, notify me next time I log in. Let me determine whether or not it's important.
Re: Ask YC: What do you use for outbound email sending?
#45First of all, I'd advice NOT doing it yourself. (sorry epi0Bauqu). Spammers ruined email and it can now be pretty hard to pass some spam filters. Of course, 95% of your emails will make it through if you do it yourself, but the last few % can be hard to get. I recently started sending through Fastmail.fm for our website and it's been working fine. I simply setup sSmtp on our servers and everything that is sent throug…
How many outbound emails does FM allow? EDIT: Looks like for the Enhanced service, they allow 2000 messages per hour. Cost $40/year. http://www.fastmail.fm/pages/fastmail/docs/pricingtbl.html EDIT2: Looks like that's inbound :(
Re: Ask YC: What do you use for outbound email sending?
#46What makes you think you're not spending spam? I'm not being glib. Really ask yourself if it's necessary to email this information to users. If I get email from a company and I don't want it, I don't like your company. If your company has information that you think is important to me, notify me next time I log in. Let me determine whether or not it's important.
It's information typically requested by a user (e.g. forgot password, register confirmation, etc.).
Re: Ask YC: What do you use for outbound email sending?
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's information typically requested by a user (e.g. forgot password, register confirmation, etc.).
You must be running quite a big site if you're sending out 100k+ per month messages on forgotten passwords and registration confirmation.