[Gllug] High volume SMTP service providers

Joel Bernstein joel at fysh.org
Sun Feb 3 23:29:18 UTC 2008


On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:02:45PM +0000, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Aaron Trevena wrote:
> > I was wondering if anybody can recommend a service provider for a
> > reasonable volume of of SMTP traffic, i.e. tens of thousands to a
> > hundred or so thousands of mails a month (I haven't checked the actual
> > numbers, but it's enough to be a nuisence and setting up a dedicated
> > smtp server would be an expensive pain).
> 
> It rather depends on what you want to happen to the mail afterwards. 
> Store and forward?  IMAP, POP?

I assume that he's talking about the situation where a company already
has 'normal' email service (inbound, at least) but wants a facility for
sending a massive quantity of outgoing email. Presumably their smarthost
doesn't offer such a service.

/joel
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