: Mail Hosting That Will Allow Outbound Bulk Mail? No, I'm not a spammer! I do volunteer work for a non-profit social services agency. They send out daily email with several hundred recipients
No, I'm not a spammer! I do volunteer work for a non-profit social services agency. They send out daily email with several hundred recipients on each message. Their web hosting company has been flagging the email as spam due to the volume. So I'm looking for an email hosting provider that won't do that. (I can separate out the web hosting function; we just need mail hosting right now.)
They can't use something like MailChimp, Constant Contact, or Vertical Response because some of the mail is just inbound emails they aggregate and send out, and they don't want the overhead of "rebuilding" it in a "newsletter" service.
I think that Google Apps for Business might be a good solution, but the pricing is just too high for this under-funded non-profit. I've applied for the non-profit discount but haven't heard back yet.
Is there mail hosting service that might fit their needs?
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I just started sending emails though Amazon Simple Email Service and it is working great. It is more a MailChimp competitor but is probably worth considering trying to use it in your flow.
SendGrid has SMTP integration so your client would be able to send directly though their email client.
Google Apps for Business isn't really a good fit for what you describe -- it's just GMail with your domain name. In fact, nothing is really a good fit for sending any one email with "several hundred recipients on each message." No matter which SMTP server you use to send it, it will create an envelope with significant spam characteristics and mail sent through hosted SMTP services are just as likely to be flagged as spam as mail sent through a local SMTP server with the added bonus of the likelihood of being suspended by the host if you get flagged as a spammer.
You really need to convince the non-profit that they need to change their behavior with regards to email. Either bite the bullet and recreate the messages for a newsletter service or bite the bullet and recreate the message within a bulk mailing program like Infacta Group Mail or similar mail program that creates a separate message per recipient and breaks up that recipient block.
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