Twilicorn

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   by Twilicorn 8y ago

   Postal is my favorite: https://postal.atech.media/
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   by Twilicorn 8y ago

   AWS has a vested interest in upselling you SES for email-sending needs. The quality of their EC2 IP ranges has little to do with their size; running a tighter ship with those IP's is merely bad for their business model.
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   by Twilicorn 8y ago

   Deal with the spam feedback loops - they exist for a reason. You have to treat an FBL email as someone hitting the "unsubscribe" link (though it might also be an indication your unsubscribe link has to be more visible or your unsu
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   by Twilicorn 8y ago

   One anecdote against another. My suspicion is that you were in a "bad neighbourhood" - ie. using a hosting or email service that didn't keep their IP's squeaky clean. AWS/EC2 is a common host among the HN crowd but
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   by Twilicorn 8y ago

   It doesn't even take months. Reputable hosting companies give you a "clean" IP that isn't on any blacklists; its reputation is yours to make or break from that point onward. Send clean mail from the get-go and the IP&#x2
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   by Twilicorn 8y ago

   I have a counterexample for you. Start an Internet forum as a side project that lets users subscribe to threads for email notifications. Grow it to xx,xxx users making x,xxx posts per day. Before you know it, you're sending 20k-50k not