📧 Email Services What do you use for email?

[MrChris]

What do you use for email for your site? Is it who your currently hosted with or do you use a different email hosting aside from your webserver? Do you prefer privacy email wise?

 

[Arantor]

I usually use Mailgun which also means I can automate bounce handling and such like by getting notifications from MG. Also has a better chance of not being in hosting-related IP blocklists.

 

[Empire]

I use SendGrid as a free account

 

[rnorth6920]

Self-hosted and also AWS SES.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I just purchased a inbox from my hosting provider and made a professional email using my domain names. I also have gmail, yahoo, and protonmail account for personal use.

 

[JoshB]

Most of my emails are with my hosting. I do have some through iCloud, Gmail, and now Proton.

 

[Tracy]

For transactional email (registration, alerts, etc that are generated by the script) for the site, I use Amazon SES.
For individual domain email accounts, I use ZoHo.

 

[Heatman]

Right now, it's only Gmail that I'm working with and it have been serving me excellent. I've worked with ZoHo in the past which my experience with it wasn't bad either.

 

[Tracy]

Just got through setting up SES for the guy I'm hosting the his site for (and bought my XF license for $25).

Took about 20 minutes for the actual SES setup. The longest part was getting approved by SES (which took around 1/2 a day), and that was simply waiting on the reply to the request to get out of the sandbox.
I also set him up with ZoHo on a free account that gives him 5 domain specific email accounts to use with his site.
I'm working on a guide on another site that I recently joined that I hope will help walk XenForo admins through doing the same. It probably will work with other scripts as the core setup is the same, but XenForo does email sending different so that is what I am documenting.
I just have to get all the images together and such and fine tune it as I have another admin that I am going to do the same with, so I can somewhat validate the base process I documented.

 

[Smokey]

Gmail mostly. Works just fine for what I need in an email provider/client.

 

[Nomad]

My hosting service provides unlimited free email services as well. I use my domain for my website emails. Even though my hosting offers a lot of space for emails, I like to use Thunderbird for my emails. While sending mass emails, I like using mailchimp as a free user.

 

[Tracy]

The problem frequently with a hosting providers emails can become deliverability. All it takes (especially on shared hosting) is a few bad apples to ruin the IP reputation for the hosting services MTA. That then affects deliverability for everyone using tha hosting providers MTA service. You usually find this on the lower end hosting providers that offer "unlimited everything". Spammers and similar will grab a hosting package and for 30-45 days burn the heck out of the email sending spam until they start getting blocked.. then they move on towards the next low end hosting provider.
That's one of the reasons that places like Linode, Digitial Ocean and OVH have entire swathes of their IPs in block lists as valid email origination points.

Heck, even the mighty XenForo SaaS solution is having issues getting their mail through to Microsoft related accounts regularly.
I have found that, even though SES (the shared IPs) may be in a few block lists, using SES is fairly consistent on deliverability, even to Hotmail/Outlook/Live accounts.