SMTP2GO
Ranked 5 of 6 email sending services by recommenders
Recommended as a free SMTP relay for sending mail from your own domain, with good deliverability at low volumes.
Recommended as a free SMTP relay for sending mail from your own domain, with good deliverability at low volumes.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 88%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Free tier covers small setups
“$0 for up to 1000 emails/month. If you run your personal mail on this and not automated notifications it's basically free, but how many spam lists are this kind of services on?”
Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “All I wanted was a custom domain email” “SMTP2GO was the only one I found that had decent deliverability at a free/low cost for low volumes”
Comment from 25 Jan 2026 in “Bye Bye Gmail” “their free tier completely covers small setups”
Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “All I wanted was a custom domain email” Good deliverability for low volume
“SMTP2GO was the only one I found that had decent deliverability at a free/low cost for low volumes”
Comment from 25 Jan 2026 in “Bye Bye Gmail” “apparently they do work on having a good reputation and allow you to add them as a smart host”
Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “All I wanted was a custom domain email” “smtp2go for sending which handles the deliverability issue”
Comment from 11 May 2026 in “Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message” Sends outbound mail as own domain
“I use it for outgoing SMTP from my gmail agent, identified as coming from me@mydomain.com”
Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “All I wanted was a custom domain email” “Now I use smtp2go for relaying outbound mail, but still handle all inbound mail.”
Comment from 15 Oct 2026 in “What I self-host” Works as smart host
“apparently they do work on having a good reputation and allow you to add them as a smart host”
Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “All I wanted was a custom domain email” “I use it for outgoing SMTP from my gmail agent, identified as coming from me@mydomain.com”
Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “All I wanted was a custom domain email”
Other email sending services people recommend
The four most recommended other email sending services, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Email Service | 27 | 21 | 56% | 5 | — | — |
| Amazon SES | 19 | 11 | 63% | 11 | — | — |
| Postmark | 9 | 1 | 90% | 6 | — | — |
| AWS SES | 8 | 6 | 57% | 5 | — | — |
| SMTP2GOThis page | 7 | 1 | 88% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
All 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“primarily because I use random emails on my own domains to see who's leaking”
“Now I use smtp2go for relaying outbound mail, but still handle all inbound mail.”
“apparently they do work on having a good reputation and allow you to add them as a smart host”
“I use it for outgoing SMTP from my gmail agent, identified as coming from me@mydomain.com”
“their free tier completely covers small setups”
“$0 for up to 1000 emails/month. If you run your personal mail on this and not automated notifications it's basically free, but how many spam lists are this kind of services on?”
“Even worse I am going through SMS phone number verification with SMTP2GO.”
“smtp2go for sending which handles the deliverability issue”
“SMTP2GO was the only one I found that had decent deliverability at a free/low cost for low volumes”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.