SMTP service to send email on my web application

Question

I've been using gmail's SMTP server to send email (notifications, password reminder, etc) in my web application. However, i'm getting to the point where i'm reaching the limit of 500 sent emails per day using gmail's SMTP.

Is there any SMTP service's that I can use instead? A friend told me about sendgrid.com, but that's the only one i've heard of.

Answer 1

you can probably use your local mta on your server as pekka said. something like /usr/sbin/sendmail on unix or the SMTP Service in IIS on win

Answer 2

Does anyone have any good instruction sheets to setup sendmail for my domain? Basically I just need to be able to send mail from my application and need to know what to put for these variables in my web app (I was also previously using gmail's smtp)

private static String senderEmail = "[email protected]";// private static String senderEmailPassword = "test"; private static String hostAddress = "smtp.gmail.com"; private static String hostPort = "465";

Answer 3

Besides SendGrid which you mentioned, there is also Postmark for transaction emails and Newsberry for email marketing

Answer 4

we use socketlabs email on-demand service. we found it to be more reliable and full featured than Sendgrid with a very easy to use API for tracking email and full smtp support - http://www.socketlabs.com/od