<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>All of the above.</div><div><br></div><div>We run a video service. You can do this yourself, but it's a hassle and we will have figured out the hard stuff you may not have realised exists.</div><div><br></div><div>Same applies to email. I don't want to figure out how to handle some scenario where mails are failing to be delivered because I didn't think to cycle my IP addresses (or something, I have no idea, just making up something there).</div><div><br></div><div>They handle scaling sure. But they also handle bounces, spam reports, and a host of other things.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't need to think about this because they are. What saves me time, I'm happy to spend money on. And $75 for email credits every few months is a lot cheaper than 10 days of dev time trying to figure out something that isn't my core business.</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On 22 May 2012, at 10:20, <a href="mailto:chat-request@lists.lrug.org">chat-request@lists.lrug.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Subject: Re: [LRUG] smtp as a service<br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:CAD9CADC-14D9-444A-8095-FBFF11132CA1@fuzzmonkey.co.uk">CAD9CADC-14D9-444A-8095-FBFF11132CA1@fuzzmonkey.co.uk</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>I'm curious as to why an external service to send emails is required. Is this a question of scalability or no / dodgy access to a SMTP server from hosting etc?<br><br>George</span></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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