Here I am talking with myself... I suppose hosted SMTP from a hosted service like SES or Mandrill could work, as long as inbound email was handled directly by

Here I am talking with myself... I suppose hosted SMTP from a hosted service like SES or Mandrill could work, as long as inbound email was handled directly by my own server. There is also the matter of spam, but it appears there are many battletested solutions for that. The last thing I need is wondering if my emails hit the spam folder or not. I worked for a company with email delivery issues associated with the corporate domain once... it was difficult to do business.