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Re: Looking for a commercial outgoing SMTP server for my domain

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On 16/7/25 10:24, Arnold Ziffel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I hope this is the right place to ask, even if this group seems rather
> quiet recently (I never posted here before, but I browsed it before
> posting).
> 
> I've been running an email service for my domain for the last 25 years,
> and I have to admit -- I have enough. I have everything configured, SPF,
> DKIM, TLS (with free Let's Encrypt certificates), my email server
> reputation, according to some online tools, is great, I never sent any
> spam, but my outgoing emails seem to be blacklisted (not rejected /
> bounced, just dropped) on some large servers based on who knows what.
> 
> It got to a point where I send an email and have to call the person if
> they received it (and they often don't).
> 
> I run the server (Postfix) on a cheap VPS, which might be the issue. But
> the IP is mine only, and has been mine for several years before.
> 
> I have enough. I'm looking for a commercial SMTP relay. I want to keep
> incoming email on my server, but relay outgoing mail somewhere else.
> 
> It has to support wildcards, as I don't use a single email address (I
> create an alias per-usage, to track and fight spam).
> 
> Basically some SMTP server that will let me authorize and send emails as
> any user from my personal domain.
> 
> I've been looking through such services, but they all seem to be aimed at
> supporting mailing lists, mailing campaigns, transactional emails, etc. I
> don't run anything like that. Just a low-volume, personal email service
> used only by me.
> 
> Is there anything you could recommend that's reasonably cheap and will
> make me forget about problems with deliverability?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
For my home system, due to my RSP (TPG) being bloody useless at email, I 
created free accounts with various SMTP providers - smtp2go, sendgrid, 
and so on - evaluated them, and ended up with smtp2go.

We've not yet hit near the 1000/month limit, and if we did I'd have no 
problem paying for it, they appear to take their reputation seriously.

Setting up authentication with Postfix is pretty easy, then I had to 
look into transport maps because I use various domains for various 
things (it's not like I'm the ACM!  ;-) ), and use the correct relay in 
relation to the "From" address, and I've not had an email go astray since.

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)

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Looking for a commercial outgoing SMTP server for my domain arnold@hooterville.invalid (Arnold Ziffel) - 2025-07-16 00:24 +0000
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  Re: Looking for a commercial outgoing SMTP server for my domain "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org> - 2025-07-16 14:45 +1000
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