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Sending e-mails

What do you use to send emails in Fluent CRM? I've been using Amazon so far, but I find it messy and confusing. Is there anything better? Can they also be sent via CloudFlare?

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Mark Palmer

I was following this thread here and got denied by Amazon SES, and was hoping to be approved so I'm back to the drawing board. I want FluentCRM and need bouncehandling, and so I'm now back to the drawing board. This is has been a frustrating experience to say the least. I didn't realize integrating bouncehandling with FluentSMTP was going to be so complex.

https://community.wpmanageninja.com/portal/post/help-a-noob?comment_id=12135

Eric Brulmans

We use SMTP2GO and Elastic Email without any problem...

Mark Palmer

Thanks, Eric - I'll look into them...no issues with deliverability?

John EDee

MariΓ‘n Ε aray, I've found that all the services other than AmazonSES charge a monthly fee, which I was seeking to avoid and just pay-by-message becuase I only send newsletters, and only once in a great while, but to about 8K addresses all in one shot. Luckily I was approved by Amazon, but if I wasn't, I was planning to use either SMTP2GO or MailJet or one of the others (Twilio SendGrid, etc). If your monthly sending is low enough, you might be able to fit into some of services' free tiers.

AmazonSES is complex, but I found that just following along with FluentCRM/SMTP's truly amazing documentation makes it fairly straightforward, so I'd say keep giving it a try, you don't have anything to lose but a little time, and once it's set up, you really shouldn't have to mess with it. (Thank you, WP Manage Ninja for not only your products but your incredible documentation!)

Zoho's ZeptoMail is the only service I could find that doesn't charge a monthly fee, but unfortunately they are only for Transactional email and don't allow Marketing-type newsletters.