Hosted SMTP Server Recommendation?

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Can anyone with a deployed Rails app recommend a reliable hosted SMTP server that they use? I know that Gmail will let me send up to 500 emails/day, but I have an app that will need to send thousands of (legitimate, non-spam) email per day.

I've heard that it isn't terribly difficult to set up my own mail server, but we're a small company, and as such, we need as small of a stack to maintain as possible.

I've looked around Google, but it seems very difficult to find a host that provides a pre-configured SMTP server with flexible daily sending limits. Probably because many of the people that would want something like this are spammers.

Thanks, Bill Harding http://www.williambharding.com/blog

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Most of the Linux VPS systems I’ve worked with have sendmail installed, so you can use that with Rails instead of SMTP to send messages. I have no idea if that would handle your volume or not, but it certainly works great for us.

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Try installing ZIMBRA on one of your servers.