Answers.Body: <p>This conversation has been taking place on the CiviCRM Partners' list in the past week.  Fortunately, some folks from the list created a wiki page to track the best options, which is available here: <a href="https://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/Mailing+providers" rel="nofollow">Mailing Providers</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I like Amazon SES, which termdark referenced (I'm the author of that documentation they linked).  However, CiviCRM partners with much larger installations don't like it because it lacks some high-end features (e.g. sub-accounting) and because they can vary their throttling.</p>
  
  <p>If you're only sending 600 messages/month, you can probably use your web host's SMTP servers.  If you're on a VPS, you can set up Posfix yourself - you're unlikely to get blacklisted with such a low volume if you configure it right, and being able to configure Postfix is an important part of how to set up Amazon SES.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: There's a lot of interest amongst the partners in <a href="https://www.sparkpost.com/" rel="nofollow">SparkPost</a>.  They offer 100,000 free messages a month, and support many of the high-end features.  There's also an extension under development by the folks at <a href="http://www.cividesk.com" rel="nofollow">CiviDesk</a> to use the more efficient (and easier to set up) API for bounce handling.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Thanks for these informations.
  In my research, I also found SendinBlue (https://fr.sendinblue.com)
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Answers.Text: On another thread this extension was posted recently (I haven't tested it yet): https://github.com/proexchange/com.pesc.sparkpost
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Answers.Body: <p>Amazon SES is a suitable replacement for those on a budget. There's some useful documentation on getting it set up with CiviCRM at: <a href="https://hq.palantetech.coop/projects/commons/wiki/Amazon_SES_for_CiviCRM" rel="nofollow">https://hq.palantetech.coop/projects/commons/wiki/Amazon_SES_for_CiviCRM</a></p>
  
  <p>I'd advise you to set up the Postix server as SES lacks much of the more useful functionality of Mandrill.</p>
  
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Body: <p>as mandrill have just announced they are becoming an add-on to mailchimp, and transactional email service will be attached to a subscription to MailChimp.
  And as my provider mail service drop all bounces, I have to fall back on other solutions that can be integrated properly with CiviMail.
  What are solutions (free or very little expensive because we are a very small structure) that would send 600 messages per month maximum (Google, Zoho, ...)?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you for your help.</p>
  
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Tags: <civimail><smtp><mandrill><amazon-ses>
Title: Which SMTP relay to replace Mandrill
ThreadText: # Which SMTP relay to replace Mandrill
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-02-27)
  
  as mandrill have just announced they are becoming an add-on to mailchimp, and transactional email service will be attached to a subscription to MailChimp.
  And as my provider mail service drop all bounces, I have to fall back on other solutions that can be integrated properly with CiviMail.
  What are solutions (free or very little expensive because we are a very small structure) that would send 600 messages per month maximum (Google, Zoho, ...)?
  
  Thank you for your help.
  
  **Tags:** civimail, smtp, mandrill, amazon-ses
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: See also: http://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/9917/free-mandrill-usage-going-away-what-alternatives-work-well  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2016-02-27. Score: 3
  
  This conversation has been taking place on the CiviCRM Partners' list in the past week. Fortunately, some folks from the list created a wiki page to track the best options, which is available here: [Mailing Providers](https://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/Mailing+providers).
  
  I like Amazon SES, which username_3 referenced (I'm the author of that documentation they linked). However, CiviCRM partners with much larger installations don't like it because it lacks some high-end features (e.g. sub-accounting) and because they can vary their throttling.
  
  If you're only sending 600 messages/month, you can probably use your web host's SMTP servers. If you're on a VPS, you can set up Posfix yourself - you're unlikely to get blacklisted with such a low volume if you configure it right, and being able to configure Postfix is an important part of how to set up Amazon SES.
  
  EDIT: There's a lot of interest amongst the partners in [SparkPost](https://www.sparkpost.com/). They offer 100,000 free messages a month, and support many of the high-end features. There's also an extension under development by the folks at [CiviDesk](http://www.cividesk.com) to use the more efficient (and easier to set up) API for bounce handling.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thanks for these informations. In my research, I also found SendinBlue (https://fr.sendinblue.com)  
  > **username_1**: On another thread this extension was posted recently (I haven't tested it yet): https://github.com/proexchange/com.pesc.sparkpost  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2016-02-27. Score: 2
  
  Amazon SES is a suitable replacement for those on a budget. There's some useful documentation on getting it set up with CiviCRM at: <https://hq.palantetech.coop/projects/commons/wiki/Amazon_SES_for_CiviCRM>
  
  I'd advise you to set up the Postix server as SES lacks much of the more useful functionality of Mandrill.
  
  
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