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Digital Ocean Managed Email
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Vini Martins
I have had a great experience with Managed Databases and would like to know if Digital Ocean will be offering Managed Email services in the near future.I have read the Digital Ocean guide that essentially discourages you from creating and attempting to manage an email server, which is not easy task.I alone would switch 12 domains over almost imediately after it was available.This is the only thing that I still use my shared hosting for; custom domain email address.This could bring a lot of new users to the site which is a win for everyone.Thank you for taking the time to read.
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Sannie K
Something like managed databases but with an SMTP server would be ideal for me. Most websites have account signup features like 'forget password', 'verify account' and similar features that all require sending emails.
Settting up and maintaining a SMTP server on your own is way too much work. Currently I'm using AWS' simple email service for this, but I'd prefer having a solution within DigitalOcean's ecosystem (if only to keep our GDPR data processing agreement that much simpler).
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Patryk Grzelak
This is a very good idea, I currently use G-Suite, but the only features my SAAS needs is the email server functionality. Scaling is very expensive in G-Suite and other platforms (365), so it is very tempted to create an email server. However, as Vini mentioned - this is not recommended. A managed mail server would solve these issues, and similarly I would switch in a heartbeat.
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