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What's the best MTA to integrate into Elixir Stack/OTP?

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JulianZheng

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What's the best MTA to integrate into Elixir Stack/OTP?

Hi elixirist, I’m wondering what’s the best MTA for sending mail, if I want to setup one. Let’s say on receiving side, I got gen_smtp taken care of, for sending side, you need MTA isn’t it? to relay the mail to recipient.

Anyway, I’ve been researching MTA for couple days, it seems people prefer Postfix because of better security [1][2][3] ?!? and scaling that seems okay [1][2] ?!? So I guess if my requirement is to handle 100k mail a day, futureproofing to 1 Mil mail a day shall be okay right ?!? Then a quick search on OTP MTA, I got this metis, skirnir which I guess I could put them under supervisor as children right ?!? What about non-OTP MTA (postfix, vSMTP) , do you think should I wrap them as OTP component so that I could put them under supervision tree?

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kwando

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I would suggest using some mail sending service, sendgrid/mailchinp etc for outgoing mails… IMHO running your own outgoing mail server is not worth the trouble.

Unless you have some specific reasons for running your own server for outgoing mails that is :slight_smile:

(And yeah, sorry this didn’t answer your question).

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JulianZheng

JulianZheng

I would suggest using some mail sending service, sendgrid/mailchinp etc for outgoing mails… IMHO running your own outgoing mail server is not worth the trouble.

Yeah, I’ve been using that cloud service in the past (Sendgrid, Amazon SES, Postmark) but for current project, I think I will go for self-managed route.

Unless you have some specific reasons for running your own server for outgoing mails that is :slight_smile:

It’s cost reason. :neutral_face:

(And yeah, sorry this didn’t answer your question).

No problem, it’s okay. I’ve been digging elixir forum to find self-managed MTA Thread, but can’t find any. Then I decided to post a new thread.

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LostKobrakai

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Maintaining a mail server will likely cost you more (if only in hours) than you’ll pay for the mentioned services.

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