I have a static Angular site from which I send emails. I set up a node/express email server which simply sends the emails using Gmail. This server is hosted on Google App Engine. I can see that it has sent 82 emails so far - only a few lines long - over two months. I have been billed over €200 for this by App Engine. How is this possible?
I have sent a support request but no response so far. I am just wondering if it could be something I have done.
If you want to lower you'r costs, GCP is suggesting using sendgrid API to send emails. For GCP Projects there is 12k emails free quota/month. You can add sendgrid API, create account and hook up to your project by going into google cloud console -> cloud launcher and typing sendgrid.
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail/using-sendgrid
When you sign up for the google cloud free service they bill you by the instance. However, they give you no control over how many instances are used at any given time. I am/was being billed for two instances on one of my projects despite the fact that it has received a total of 83 requests in the five weeks since it was deployed.
I am waiting for Google to try to explain this to me.
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I am trying since a last few weeks to setup an email, for example,info#domainname.com, in aws Amazon SES
I tried some of the links:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/receiving-email.html
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/sending-email.html
I even went through a similar question marked closed on Stack Overflow:
How to set up Amazon SES to send and receive emails
But couldn't finish the setup correctly. Would anyone please help me to finish this task?
For your reference, I am using Free tier AWS account and have the domain attached to my Godaddy account.
When you say you want to send and receive emails, what do you mean ?
Generally SES is used to send emails from an app that you run and you want this service to handle all the posting for you, from doc - why use Amazon SES
Building a large-scale email solution is often a complex and costly
challenge for a business. You must deal with infrastructure challenges
such as email server management, network configuration, and IP address
reputation. Additionally, many third-party email solutions require
contract and price negotiations, as well as significant up-front
costs. Amazon SES eliminates these challenges and enables you to
benefit from the years of experience and sophisticated email
infrastructure Amazon.com has built to serve its own large-scale
customer base.
The receiving part as noted in doc
When you use Amazon SES to receive messages on behalf of your verified
domains, you can configure Amazon SES to deliver your messages to an
Amazon S3 bucket, call your custom code via an AWS Lambda function, or
publish notifications to Amazon SNS. You can also configure Amazon SES
to drop or bounce messages you do not want to receive.
so on receipt, SES will trigger rules that you have defined.
From your question, it sounds like you want to use a basic email client to do sending/receiving of emails, in this case Amazon provides another service called Amazon Workmail which you can compare with google apps.
If you're really looking into sending email from an app using SES, you can review this link which explains how to do it with GoDaddy
Here's my current setup
Domain hosted at godaddy.com - I point my dns to dns.he.net nameservers
DNS hosted at dns.he.net - I point my A record to my server IP
Email hotsted on google apps - I point my MX record to Google Apps
Site hosted on apache server with a cpanel type thing.
All of my email accounts are on google apps. We have about 40 emails on there, and we want to keep google apps, it makes our life easier.
The problem:
Google Apps only allows 500 sent emails a day via one account (yes you can send 2000 if we upgrade, but that's 40*$5 per month and that's too $$ much for email.
My website keeps hitting the 500 email send limit a day for our sales#mysite.com email. I need to push that one email account to my server and use my server to send the emails from there, since there is no sending limit on that.
My Question:
How can I keep google apps for all of my email accounts except one, and how do I forward just that 1 email address to route though my server to send and receive emails?
Other email services like SendGrid, Mandrill (Mailchimp), Mailgun, etc. aside, you can use Groups and have a higher limit. See this.
Group provisioning and maintenance can be done with tools like GAM
So we are planning to use AWS SES for sending emails. But how do we set up the email receivers? And how do we create an email accounts? When activating AWS SES, it asks to verify an email account (eg. help#example.org)...
I tried to create a mail server on one of the instances using postfix following this article: http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/, but it's not easy at all... Does anybody know any better alternatives?
Thanks.
SES is for sending email only. As you note, you must have some other way set up to receive email at least at the "From" address you intend to use, because Amazon will verify it before letting you send.
While you certainly could set up an email server and domain on an EC2 instance, it's very complicated. I recommend that you get an email service for just that purpose. If you only need a single address for all your messages, just get a free address from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc.
If you need multiple addresses, consider getting Google Apps for Business, either for an existing or new domain name (it's easiest to set up if you have it register a new domain name for you). It's no longer free, but it's still quite cheap. A single user account can receive emails for every address in the domain, it's flexible, and it's reliable. It's a good companion to using SES for sending automated emails.
Use Amazon WorkMail if you prefer AWS. Gmail for work, Office 365, Hostgator, are some other examples. FYI, none of these providers simply provide domain emails. They come bundled with many other things such as chat clients, calenders, etc. Pricing of these services depends on what other things they are bundled with.
$4/user/month for AWS
$5/user/month for Google
$5/user/month for Microsoft
Since you are in AWS cloud, I will tell you a few things about Amazon WorkMail.
You get your own domain and 50GB of storage per user.
You get calendars for free.
You cannot use just any desktop mail client. You have to either use Outlook, or Mac's mail client, or the web interface. This is their weakest point. However, including other IMAP clients is in their roadmap (I guess atleast a year).
Integrates nicely with SES.
Important links:
FAQ page.
Features page.
There are many more features such as remotely removing emails from a device, managing your users, and so on.
What I can recommend you is to use Amazon WorkMail because they almost provide all the features supported by others, and you are tied with AWS anyway. AWS also recently launched Workspace and Workdocs (both separately billed) that will allow you to create a complete work solution. These services also combine nicely with IAM.
I have my own exchange for emails. There are times when my exchange service is down (because of power failure or maintanance) and during this time, my users do not have access to the exchange web access. To keep the user experience consistant, I was wondering if I can setup something like this:-
If my exchange server is down, google apps takes over and start relaying my mails. Users could log into google apps gmail account to send / receive mails. Once the exchange server is back online, they can continue using the exchange web access.
Please let me know if this is possible at all.
Thanks all in advance,
BTR Naidu
www.btrnaidu.com
www.lmcentraal.com
yes, you need to configure Google Apps as your secondary email server.. there are a few tutorials online to help you with this subject, e.g.
Understanding and Working With MX Records
How To Setup Backup or Secondary MX
I'm trying to code a mail sender service. Previously I built a simple desktop application which uses my shared hosting mail server to send html mails. But now it's not enough and I plan switching to Gmail or Amazon SNS.
For Gmail I have to use min 15 different accounts to be able to send up to 1500 emails. Also sometimes gmail blocks the accounts and I have to login and change the passwords.
I've just signed up for Amazon SNS but it does not looks to what I need. You first have to subscribe users then send emails. Also emails are sent from no-reply#sns.amazonaws.com addres. Is this the all service or I can configure it as I wish?
I also read some suggestions to lookup the MX records for the destination mail servers How to send 1000+ emails per day using an ASP.NET Web site
I want a minimum cost solution. So which is best and is there a better solution?
We use Mailjet for 3 sites now. Initially we used the free plan (6000 / month) to test the set-up and reporting. Now the 3 sites are run on it. Very satisfied - especially since they offer dedicated IP monitoring. According to us, it's rather easy to install. SMTP very easy and one of the sites integrates with the API. I'd recommend
There are a multitude of services available for you that will allow you to send 1500+ emails per day and will get the headache of email deliverability off your plate.
PostageApp (Ours!)
SendGrid
Postmark App
Deliver
Mailjet
Take a look and see which fit your needs and have the implementation method that you are looking for. They each have a free service, so it's definitely easy to try.
(Full Disclosure: I am the Product Manager of PostageApp. Let me know if you have any questions!)
A relatively new option for transaction emails that seems pretty good from Mailchimp:
Mandrill
Looks like it has decent integration with their main service as well.
You can utilize some premium services to send 1000 emails here, daily for free
Remember, you should not spam in the services listed, just you create multiple lists in all accounts & send emails daily.