Email Service Provider

[SkylarM]

Been looking around for the best email service (ideally free) that I can use with WHMCS for outbound and inbound importing for primarily tickets, invoices, so on. Hotmail has a limit that the importer can easily hit every 15 minutes, and google is a paid service.

What do you guys use or recommend for such services?

 

[Aldryic C'boas]

Been looking around for the best email service (ideally free) that I can use with WHMCS for outbound and inbound importing for primarily tickets, invoices, so on. Hotmail has a limit that the importer can easily hit every 15 minutes, and google is a paid service.

What do you guys use or recommend for such services?

We use Amazon SES, and couldn't be happier.  80k+ emails a month, and the bill is typically 5$/mo or less.

Also - Google's Paid service still has outbound restrictions.  Something like 5k per day, and the cost is still a good deal higher than Amazon.

 

[raidz]

 

[365Networks]

Mandrillapp is great if you are sending under 12 000 per month! Lots of great statistical information as well.

 

[drmike]

Amazon SES for email... Interesting.  Wasn't familiar with it, now am looking into it.

What is the pricing like with mandrillapp?  It gets mentioned semi-often.

 

[SkylarM]

Mandrilapp is relatively inexpensive, I'm just not entirely sure if it would work for inbound stuff with WHMCS piping. Haven't really looked into it super seriously though.

 

[SeriesN]

Mandrilapp is relatively inexpensive, I'm just not entirely sure if it would work for inbound stuff with WHMCS piping. Haven't really looked into it super seriously though.

I can confirm it works perfectly fine for incoming emails. WHMCS uses mandrill as outgoing server whill your current email host for incoming.

 

[SkylarM]

I can confirm it works perfectly fine for incoming emails. WHMCS uses mandrill as outgoing server whill your current email host for incoming.

I'm ideally looking for a complete service for both directions though.

 

[SeriesN]

Google apps or your own mailserver . In all honesty, for incoming, google apps does more then enough

 

[365Networks]

Mandrillapp does have an outgoing feature how ever I have never used it, wouldn't mind knowing how it is though.

 

[nikc]

I use Mailjet, its free upto a certain number, and I never got close to that number

 

[shovenose]

Heh, not trying to plug for my own service, but check out ShoveHost Email Hosting... we use it for our email and it's been rock solid... WHMCS piping works perfectly.

It's $2/month/box with 25GB storage.

https://shovehost.com/email.php


I'll admit right now it's just resold Rackspace Email but we're cheaper for larger quanitities, accept more/different payment methods, and don't have a minimum commitment (Rackspace direct forces you to have five or more mailboxes).

 

[Eased]

Amazon SES does great for us. They charge per thousand. 

 

[jhadley]

I use Sendgrid. Works fine for me

 

[Naruto]

Use SendGrid as jhadley already suggested. Only retards use anything other than that wonderful service.

Hell, they fired Adria Richards so they're a good company in my book.

 

[matt[scrdspd]]

As a few others have mentioned, I have heard good things about Amazon SES.

 

[NodeDeals]

Have you had a look at zohomail? I don't know about it's limitations, but I have used it without much problems some time back.

 

[EarthVPN]

Mailchimp

 

[dominicl]

We use Mandrill to send emails to customers via WHMCS, and are thinking of switching to SMTP.com.


For our actual email boxes, we use Zoho free.

 

[ryanarp]

We use Mandrill to send emails with WHMCS and SolusVM and it has been rock solid. A lot of nice suggestions on here. Might have to check them out one day.