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Hi there,

what SMTP relay's / services do you use or can recommend for sending monitoring alerts.

I'm running a few services, but mostly all my custom scripts, and tasks are configured to sent an e-mail if something goes "off-script". Before I used my gmail account - but I'm in the middle of migrating away, and my requirements have evolved.

I've searched but I haven't found anything good. Services like Mailgun, Mailtrap etc. are nice - but their bundle's are a bit much for my taste.

The service/ relay should meet the following requirements.

  • bring your own domain (use your own domain/ or sub-domains as sender address)
  • must have DKIM (anything else is not a serious service!)
  • support SMTP via TLS
  • support multiple SMTP clients, with each different credentials/ secrets
  • Allow custom header/ envelope changes

At the moment I'm looking at Amazon SES, because I don't expect a lot of messages (I had 3 alerts in the last 1,5 yrs).

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[–] exu@feditown.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use mailgun at the moment. Still free for me and I send 2-3 mails per day. I had problems once with some mails not arriving or landing in spam, but that was fixed after a day or so.

Edit: Just checked the dashboard and I'm getting 1000 mails per month for free. Can't find exactly where they offer this plan anymore though, so they might have removed that.

[–] thejoker8814@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Was signed up there as well, when they started like years ago. But I couldn’t get back into their free tier.