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Because delivery rates through self-hosted SMTP are lower than through commercial e-mail delivery services; the latter being close to unity[1] and the former ra
by aidenn0 2y ago
Because delivery rates through self-hosted SMTP are lower than through commercial e-mail delivery services; the latter being close to unity[1] and the former ranging from near-zero to about 7/8 depending on how much work and time you put into doing things.
1: My "close to unity" number comes from my experience with the mailgun APIs, I assume that SES is similar.
- crote 2y agoI absolutely hate how it feels like the e-mail delivery services and Google/Microsoft/whatever are working together to form a protection racket: sure would be a shame if your email were to get lost, better pay us to guarantee it makes it to its destination... Imagine the outrage if your national snail mail carrier were to shred 50% of all mail which didn't have a Premium Protection stamp. Why do we let the big cloud hosters get away with it?