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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.
First 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…
What 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.
First 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 :(
What 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.).
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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.