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Watch out with the sending email directly from an EC2 instance. You don't really have a fixed IP so rDNS isn't going to work very well, and that's still a front
by zrail 13y ago
Watch out with the sending email directly from an EC2 instance. You don't really have a fixed IP so rDNS isn't going to work very well, and that's still a front-line filter for a lot of big email providers.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoIf you are an Amazon EC2 user, you can get started with Amazon SES for free. You can send 2,000 messages for free each day when you call Amazon SES from an Amazon EC2 instance directly or through AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Many applications are able to operate entirely within this free tier limit. http://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/ http://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/ You could also use Mailgun, mandrillapp.com, etc. I believe they all provide at least 10-12K emails/month for free, by calling a RESTful web api.
- zrail 13y agoYeah, those are all great options. I know for sure Mandrill lets you send SMTP through them and I think Mailgun does too. It's just a matter of configuring your Postfix server to relay through them.
- jlgaddis 13y agoYep, some RBLs block most/all of EC2's address space, it seems. Or used to, at least, and that probably hasn't changed.