# Hosted SMTP Server Recommendation?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosted-smtp-server-recommendation/133461>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 31, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosted-smtp-server-recommendation/133461 "2008-03-31T19:39:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosted-smtp-server-recommendation/133461/1 "2008-03-31T19:39:47Z")

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Can anyone with a deployed Rails app recommend a reliable hosted SMTP  
server that they use? I know that Gmail will let me send up to 500  
emails/day, but I have an app that will need to send thousands of  
(legitimate, non-spam) email per day.

I’ve heard that it isn’t terribly difficult to set up my own mail  
server, but we’re a small company, and as such, we need as small of a  
stack to maintain as possible.

I’ve looked around Google, but it seems very difficult to find a host  
that provides a pre-configured SMTP server with flexible daily sending  
limits. Probably because many of the people that would want something  
like this are spammers.

Thanks,  
Bill Harding  
[http://www.williambharding.com/blog](http://www.williambharding.com/blog)

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosted-smtp-server-recommendation/133461/2 "2008-03-31T20:01:37Z")

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Most of the Linux VPS systems I’ve worked with have sendmail installed,  
so  
you can use that with Rails instead of SMTP to send messages. I have no  
idea  
if that would handle your volume or not, but it certainly works great  
for  
us.

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosted-smtp-server-recommendation/133461/3 "2008-04-01T17:56:03Z")

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Try installing ZIMBRA on one of your servers.

On Mar 31, 10:39 am, “removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid”