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SMTP.com review

Transactional email APIssmtp.com★★★☆☆ 2.6/5 our score

SMTP.com in short

SMTP.com is a transactional email service with API + SMTP and a delivery focus. It is solid for sending, with cost and dedicated infrastructure scaling with volume.

Verdict: SMTP.com is a capable transactional email API, though cost and delivery control improve only past the free tier.

Pros

  • …Get the full `proxyAddresses` list (aka email aliases) for each user. `Enable-RemoteMailbox` only stamps the primary SMTP and remote routin
  • I’m a huge fan of Sendgrid. Sorry. The devex is really good, the system works really well (I’ve used SMTP.com as well and my deliverability
  • …It allows you basically to filter on whatever is available in the SMTP…
  • REST API + SMTP relay, both

Cons

  • …targeting Defender, test your templates through tester mail before sending. some red teamers use self hosted SMTP with Postal or similar fo
  • …dynamic IP (Cloudflare, etc.) * Host your mailboxes locally * Have your mail server smart relay out to a third-party SMTP service like [SMT
  • …address in the from-line of the composer. Because it is abused for spam. The answer is that easy. I manage an incoming SMTP mail gateway, m
  • We don't use either of these company's APIs anymore since we're doing our own outbound SMTP, but we've used both - https://elasticemail.com/
  • Free tiers are small (100s/day)

What people say on Reddit

All 24
18 critical5 mixed1 positive
Criticalr/cybersecurityJul 2026▲ 17

microsoft blocking gophish

…targeting Defender, test your templates through tester mail before sending. some red teamers use self hosted SMTP with Postal or similar for a cleaner reputation…

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Criticalr/selfhostedDec 2022▲ 15

i am trying to self host a mail server and i

…dynamic IP (Cloudflare, etc.) * Host your mailboxes locally * Have your mail server smart relay out to a third-party SMTP service like [SMTP.com](https://SMTP.com), Amazon AWS, etc. They will have solutions that don't require port 25 \*and\* you'll have better deliverability than you can ever…

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Criticalr/ProtonMailDec 2022▲ 10

smoother transition with 3rdparty email addresses

…address in the from-line of the composer. Because it is abused for spam. The answer is that easy. I manage an incoming SMTP mail gateway, more than 70% of captured spam originating from free e-mail services such as outlook.com and *in particular* gmail uses such tricks. If you really need such a…

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SMTP.com pricing

Details
PlanPriceIncludes
Free100/day-3K/moDev & trial
Growth~$15-30/mo (50K)Full sending
ScaleUsage/volumeDedicated IPs

Frequently asked questions

Best deliverability?

Dedicated IPs on paid tiers.

Free tier enough?

For dev/small.

API or SMTP?

Both, almost all.