For our swisscom app cloud applications (public app cloud), we need a swiss mail service (like mailgun, sendgrid,...) to send mails to our customers. Is there a service from Swisscom or another swiss provider?
Swisscom doesn't offer Mail aaS. Sorry. Please subscribe to our newsletter for announcement of new services.
We have some "manual" workaround, but it only works if you have access to a Swisscom internal Exchange mailbox (for example if you are a Swisscom partner).
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More than a simple question-answer, this is more of a recommendation post. Want to see what ideas I have to work with. I am working on porting my company's work to the cloud (GCP) Most of this work is in the form of a pipeline. I'd like to notify completion via email.
The company I work for has a private network. And so the only way to use their mail config is to send it through their internet, and so, cannot use their SMTP-config from GCP.
What's the best way around this?
I'm looking into creating a VPN between GCP and our local network, however, that may not be possible (IT restrictions)
Do I have any other options?
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What an SMTP Relay work? This guy.
By default, Compute Engine allows outbound connections on all ports but port 25,so if you need to send an email from the instance you have to use port 465 or 587.
GCP explecitely recomends using other third-party tools such as SendGrid, Mailgun, and Mailjet because they offer a free tier package, you can skip all that and connect your instance to Gmail SMTP Relay Service. You will need a Google Account to connect (gmail or Gsuite).
Instructions to configure the Google Account are HERE , I tested sending emails from my MySQL server and Debian 9
I'm trying to setup incoming email for my Amazon EC2 linux box. It's a nightmare to figure out honestly, so I was looking into easier options (Amazon SES is not available in my region..)
My domain's DNS is managed through NameCheap. They have a private email hosting service.
https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/email.aspx
Will this enable me to have a webmail interface where I can send / receive emails from my domain?
And will I then be able to use a service like Mandril / Mailchimp / Sendgrid to deliver email from my Node.js application?
My answer is YES.
With current aws services, mail server is not that easier you can work it out in aws ec2 instance or SES service. I tried, but that's not happy story, especially you need put effords to maintain security and blacklist.
The AWS WorkMail services is bit expensive if compare with other web hosting.
So you should be confident to use webmail services provided by other hosting companies, and there are a lot of choices, enjoy it.
I'm new to google compute engine, i used dedicated server before where i get cpanel to configure email so i can send and receive but in google cloud it's not available. so how can i use email service in GCE please help
See the docs on sending email from GCE:
Google Compute Engine does not allow outbound connections on ports 25, 465, and 587 but you can still set up your instances to send mail through ports 587 and 465 using servers provided through partner services, such as SendGrid. This document discusses how to set up your instances to send email using SendGrid.
If you wish to send mail through a corporate mail server, you can use a VPN to bypass these restrictions. This would require running a VPN client on your Compute Engine node, and a VPN server on your corporate network router. This would allow your Compute Engine node to appear "inside" your corporate firewall, and allow unrestricted access to your corporate mail server. There are security implications for this configuration, and you should ensure that your Compute Engine node only has access to the services it requires, and nothing more.
SendGrid is a partner service that provides Google Compute Engine customers with a free or paid SendGrid account that you can use to send mail from Google Compute Engine instances. SendGrid offers a number of advantages:
free tier* to Google Compute Engine customers that includes 25,000 transactional email messages per month
Ability to send emails from addresses other than #gmail.com
No daily limit on the number of transactional email messages
The footnote on free* is:
Google will be compensated for customers who sign up for a non-free account.
See the document for details on how to sign up or set this up on your account.
Use email provider's API to send mail from Google Compute Engine. For that you need the end point url, and authentication key. This is easiest way as ports such as 25, 465 and 587 are blocked in Google Cloud.
You may use your email providers API to send email from GC to avoid
I have domain. I have my website on an Amazon EC2 instance. I have pointed the domain there, so website is accessible with the domain now. all is working fine but I want to set up the email now, I should be able to create email id and manage emails.
Someone suggested Amazon SES to be set up, I did that but then what to do?
Any ideas greatly appreciated.
You don't want to run your email on EC2.
Amazon SES is for outgoing email only, i.e. it can replace your SMTP server, so for example if your website generates emails, you could use SES to send them out, but its not a full 'email' service in the traditional sense.
For normal email operations, you need to use an email provider such as gmail, outlook, rackspace email etc.
AWS also offers AWS Workmail as an option. I use both Rackspace email and outlook email for various domains that I have hosted on EC2 instances.
If you are accustomed to using a shared hosting service, i.e. discountasp.net where the web hosting and email is all bundled together as a single packaged service for you, you need to think of things differently when you start running and managing your own ec2 server instances. Its upto you to string the parts together.
Since you have hosted website on AWS EC2 and Domain name pointed to Instance. I would suggest that you use AWS WorkMail to send Email. This is new service which has been introduced. AWS WorkMail is available on US East (N. Virginia) and EU (Ireland) region. It is easy to configure and you can use your domain name to create email Ids, say info#domainname.com.
After configuration you will have your own console for where you can manage and access all your emails. To access emails AWS have own console similar to webmail.
I run several websites on rackspace and have been slowly converting the sites to web apps on heroku, however my clients still need email#theirdomain.com.
Most of the solutions I see on heroku are for sending notifications and not hosting email services.
Most of the email only services seem to be about email marketing not hosting. Is there a way for me to drop the rackspace server and still provide email hosting to my clients?
You can try free hosting for email at http://domains.live.com You need to be able to change your mx server to do that. Its quite simple. The interface is great and comes with smtp