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by user5994461 1799 days ago
It's not clear from the message whether the software is setting up their own email system, if so it will need to be audited and certified, which is a major hassle.

Either way, the auditors and the infrastructure might not want to handle an order of magnitude more traffic (API usage is really in a different league than occasional human email). Expect all emails to have to be stored for around a decade.