# Email Providers

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-providers/133823>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [April 4, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-providers/133823 "2008-04-04T00:56:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jmckible](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c4cdca/32.png) [@jmckible](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jmckible)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-providers/133823/1 "2008-04-04T00:56:03Z")

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I’m curious if anyone has any recommendation for email service  
providers. I’m currently using AuthSMTP and it’s working out okay. I’m  
looking for a little more flexibility in which headers are available to  
set, and of course deliverability is always key.

To give you an idea of scale, we’ll probably send 10-20k emails a month.  
Long term it’s looking like we’ll need to maintain our own mail servers,  
but it would be nice to outsource sending emails to a third party early  
on.

Jordan  
[http://jordan.mckible.com](http://jordan.mckible.com)

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**Author:** ![jmckible](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c4cdca/32.png) [@jmckible](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jmckible)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 1:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-providers/133823/2 "2008-04-04T01:08:12Z")

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What’s your budget? You should be able to send 10-20k messages  
through a small VPS or a dedicated server. This would give you the  
ultimate control and you’d know going in that your IP wasn’t being  
blocked globally.

Thanks,

Jesse P.  
Blue Box Group, LLC  
p. 800-613-4305 x 801

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**Author:** ![jmckible](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c4cdca/32.png) [@jmckible](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jmckible)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 1:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-providers/133823/3 "2008-04-04T01:29:11Z")

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Jesse P. wrote:

> What’s your budget? You should be able to send 10-20k messages  
> through a small VPS or a dedicated server. This would give you the  
> ultimate control and you’d know going in that your IP wasn’t being  
> blocked globally.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jesse P.  
> Blue Box Group, LLC  
> p. 800-613-4305 x 801

Most people seem to recommend rolling our own mail server too. The  
budget isn’t really the deciding factor - I’m more concerned about  
ensuring deliverability and I don’t have any experience setting up a  
mail server. I figured a third party would do a better job at handling  
best practices stuff.

Jordan  
[http://jordan.mckible.com](http://jordan.mckible.com)

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**Author:** ![jmckible](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c4cdca/32.png) [@jmckible](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jmckible)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-providers/133823/4 "2008-04-04T01:35:08Z")

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You should be able to find a provider who can help you get your  
initial setup configured the way you need it. I know that’s something  
Blue Box Group will do… I’m sure there are others out there as  
well. And the end of the day, that’s likely the most cost effective  
and most reliable method.

Thanks,

Jesse P.  
Blue Box Group, LLC  
p. 800-613-4305 x 801