Alternatives for outbound email service

[Edward Ned Harvey]

> From: discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org [mailto:discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org] On
> Behalf Of Rich Braun
> 
> Acquaintances have told me that Amazon EC2's pricing has dropped
> considerably,

Due to a planned outage, I recently moved my mailserver temporarily to an
EC2 instance.  I found that amazon's IP addresses are all blacklisted (as
far as I can tell) so ... Good luck sending mail from there.  Even if you
can configure the reverse DNS (which you probably can't, but who knows,
maybe.) ... 

I won't say impossible.  But you better expect some initial ramp time to get
it working.  And then I don't know how blacklists work ... If there's one
good IP address in the middle of a range of bad ones, they might just
distrust your server implicitly anyway.  I don't know.


> So, if I follow John's suggestion and actually purchase a colo mail
> server,
> how do I keep the cost down under, say, $100/year?  (The obvious

Um ... prgmr.com would be one answer.  Currently a waitlist to subscribe
though.