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What are people using as their volume SMTP service when running services from Azure? I know that Amazon has http://aws.amazon.com/ses/ but what are people using when running out of Microsoft Azure?
Thanks in advance.
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Simple Email ServiceIn Azure, third-party solutions, like SendGrid, provide email services that can be incorporated into solutions to cater for various use cases.
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There is nothing built into Azure. You must consider third-party services.
A popular one is SendGrid (Tutorial | Volume Pricing) but there are definitely other options. FYI, I've not used SendGrid myself for anything with heavy volume so I can't really recommend them based on my personal experiences, but they seem to be one of the most popular go-to options for this area.
For low-volume SMTP, I've used Office 365 for quite some time myself.
Another options is, you can use Amazon SES! Scott Hanselman has a neat blog post about this option.
Lastly, I stumbled upon this really neat post called "Transactional Email Service & Bulk Email Software". I absolutely cannot vouch for the reliability of the information there but it seems like it could be a great tool and it was posted/last updated within the past two weeks, so it's really worth checking out!
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