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by mekster 536 days ago
Where did you get the idea of $100/mo? SendGrid has 100 emails per day free tier and PostMark has 100 free emails per month and basic plan is $15/mo.

If it doesn’t work without a middleman then it doesn’t make sense to run your own service. Any spammer can rent a server the way you can.
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daneel_w 535 days ago
That's their cost for a dedicated "clean" transit. At $15/mo you're just sharing tenancy with everyone else, using their SMTP setup together with everyone else. I'm running my own setup for a handful of domains, my own configurations, signing procedures, filters, features, aliases and catchalls etc. Incidentally almost all spam I receive comes in via Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail.
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mekster 535 days ago
What matters is how inbox providers look at the source IP. At least delivery services have higher chance by filtering obvious outgoing spam than a rogue server IP.
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daneel_w 535 days ago
My problem isn't the network I'm originating from. It's a) that Proofpoint doesn't track "state" (message-IDs) between outbound and returning e-mail, and b) that I don't send regularly enough to be a "familiar".
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