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by kureikain 1803 days ago
Ah SMTP is the protocol that we used to send email over internet.

The term SMTP server is used when you are the person who send out email.

The term MX server is used when you are the person who is received email. As in, someone use an SMTP server to send you an email, by connect to MX server list on your domain. You can find MX server by doing a `MX DNS query` on the domain such as `dig hanami.run mx +short` or `dig github.com mx +short`

SMTP email limit only apply for users who want to use our SMTP service. Think sendgrid/mailgun SMTP service. It means when you want to send email through your own domain.

For incoming and email forwarding(someone send you an email and we forward to your domains) then it unlimited.

The reason is that when you use SMTP service, you can just write a simple loop and send lots of email using our SMTP server. We don't want that, our service is only for daily email, not marketing(newsletter, promotion) or transaction email(password reset etc).

Incoming email, on other hand is send out by other people to your service, and we will happily forward as many as possible.

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Thanks so much, this clears up a lot of vernacular I haven't needed to know before - I really appreciate it. Will keep your service in mind for my immediate + future work!