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by dwils098 3548 days ago
Cost of the machine is amortized over the number of e-mail sent, in other words OP is more interested in the average cost of sending an e-mail message, using statistical approximation... (i.e.: sending an e-mail from USA to China on average requires x amount of servers, middle-servers, data-centers, and these process y amount of requests per minute, with a cost of operation of z on average per minute, etc.)

see: https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-it-cost-to-send-an-email...