Alternative to shared SMTP server

2014-10-30 Thread Kevin Parker
Has anyone had any experience using Send Grid (or even something else) with CF - just looking for other options for a site rather than using the shared mail server. ++ Kevin Parker ++ ~| Order the Adobe

Re: Alternative to shared SMTP server

2014-10-30 Thread Steve Milburn
Maybe Amazon SES? I haven't used it in a CF project so I can't speak to that specifically, but I did use it in a Node.js project and it was a piece of cake. Steve On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Kevin Parker tras...@internode.on.net wrote: Has anyone had any experience using Send Grid (or

Re: Alternative to shared SMTP server

2014-10-30 Thread Russ Michaels
We use and recommend send grid On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Kevin Parker tras...@internode.on.net wrote: Has anyone had any experience using Send Grid (or even something else) with CF - just looking for other options for a site rather than using the shared mail server. ++ Kevin

Re: Alternative to shared SMTP server

2014-10-30 Thread Will Swain
We use Mandrill, Very happy with it. On 30 October 2014 12:01, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: We use and recommend send grid On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Kevin Parker tras...@internode.on.net wrote: Has anyone had any experience using Send Grid (or even something else)

Re: Alternative to shared SMTP server

2014-10-30 Thread Byron Mann
You could also do something like a small linux EC2 instance and run Postfix which based on your data transfer would probably be free as well. http://aws.amazon.com/free/ I think with Amazon SES you can send something like 2000 emails per day at no cost. ~Byron

Re: Alternative to shared SMTP server

2014-10-30 Thread Russ Michaels
Send grid et al does have a lot of useful extra features you won't get from a plain smtp server so depends what you need. The bounce tracking and reporting is very handy. On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 13:11 PM, Byron Mann byronos...@gmail.com wrote: You could also do something like a small linux

Re: Alternative to shared SMTP server

2014-10-30 Thread Dave Watts
Maybe Amazon SES? I haven't used it in a CF project so I can't speak to that specifically, but I did use it in a Node.js project and it was a piece of cake. Amazon SES works fine from CF. We use it quite a bit. But we also host our CF infrastructure with Amazon, so it makes sense there. Dave

Re: Alternative to shared SMTP server

2014-10-30 Thread Steve Milburn
Good to know, Dave. I figured there wouldn't be any problem using it from CF, but just couldn't speak to it from experience. On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: Maybe Amazon SES? I haven't used it in a CF project so I can't speak to that specifically, but

Re: Alternative to shared SMTP server

2014-10-30 Thread Scott Stroz
I use Mandrill, too. Cannot say enough good things about it. On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Will Swain w...@hothorse.com wrote: We use Mandrill, Very happy with it. On 30 October 2014 12:01, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: We use and recommend send grid On Thu, Oct