From Definition to Differentiate between other types of emails, all the required points will be covered in this article. SO keep reading and stay with us.

What is meant by Transactional emails?

Transactional emails are messages or emails that are being used between a business and a customer. It is used when a service has been completed either, a customer has purchased a product or used a service.

Providing all the information about the product and service charges levied by the customer. Due to this it is also sometimes known as triggered emails.

Triggering of transactional emails occurs only when a customer is trying to buy, looking for a product, or completed his transaction.

Most businesses use this a medium to communicate with their customers and provide them information during their whole billing process.

Transactional emails are more specific and customer-oriented mails, only delivered when the customer has shown some activity. Unlike promotional emails in which same message is being sent in bulk for marketing.

Difference between Transactional emails and Marketing emails

As mentioned above, Transactional emails are customer-oriented messages triggered during a customer journey. The whole sole purpose of the transactional email is to start and complete the whole transaction.

Which is sent only by the consent of the customer and is not used for marketing purposes.

 A typical example is online shopping or online transactions from e-commerce websites, after buying an item or initiation of your transaction process you receive an email receipt that has all the details mentioned from the type of item purchased, Price, and shipping time. Transactional email is sent to people rather than a large rundown of recipients.

For example – Order confirmation receipts, Welcome emails, Notification emails, etc.

Whereas, the emails which are used as brand promotion, Offer services, and Selling products are termed as Marketing emails. Marketing emails only trigger when customers subscribe and give their consent to receive marketing emails.

For example Newsletters, Promotion and Offers emails, etc.

Types of Transactional Email and their Uses

Confirmation Emails

The most common and widely used is Confirmation emails. It generates when a customer has completed their online transaction, this is why these are called transactional emails.

These emails usually contain all the information regarding the product a customer has purchased. Like Date of purchase, Total amount, Type of product, Other product details, and time of transaction.

These emails are somewhat also termed Online receipts or an intimation mail about Product confirmation.

Confirmation emails or Receipts can be in the form of typical emails, Pdfs, or E-books. But one thing must be noted that Confirmation emails are not limited to monetary transactions only.

But new account registration, new subscriptions confirmation, or other online invitation mails can also be considered as confirmation emails.

Request and Reset Email

Request emails from service providers or Password reset emails are another type of transactional email. Triggers only when you forget the password and send an request to reset it.

This email usually helps to ensure the access continuity of products by the customer. Hence, the email is quite functional not like others with blank or dull messages.

Another Example of a Request or Reset transactional email is the Email Verification code. Whenever you try to make a new account on any application or service, they sent you an email verification code on your email account in real-time. You have to use that code for temporary access to reset the password. These type of emails helps in to provide account security and regaining credentials if lost.

Account-Related Reminder Emails

These types of transactional emails are mostly received when companies try to remind you or alerts you about your account issues. Such as failed payments, Incomplete billing, or Account deactivation alert. It helps in kind of gentle tap on customers to remind about their account problems and in meanwhile resolving the issue.

Another type of example is, alert email when some suspicious account activity detected. Such as too many login attempts, from different locations and from different devices.

Behavioral Transactional emails

This is a Marketing focused transactional email solely focused on customer behavior during the process and execute them accordingly. These emails are mostly used to increase customer loyalty and hence more conversations.

This can be easily understood by an example, When you first create a Gmail account, you received a Welcome email that helps you with some features and Tips. These emails are triggered mostly when a customer achieved some milestone and from time to time they keep on coming like that.

Another most popular example is, while online shopping, customers add products to their cart and for some reason, they left in between without completing the billing process.

Now the companies, keep pushing the abandoned cart emails on the same day, or two including more offers to attract customers and make the billing process complete.

Invoice emails

Invoice emails are also transactional emails, triggers only when a customer has some dues to complete. Companies sent an email mentioning all the details about the product and the due date.

Delivery Confirmation email

Like Abandoned cart and shipping mail, Delivery confirmation email also plays a major role in building up a Better customer experience.

Like other transactional emails, this also helps to alert and ensure the customers about their product status. And make ensuring that products delivered to the right customer.

In the above picture, you can see that the Delivery of the product has been successful and a confirmation mail containing the product ID has been sent to the customer.

Referal or Invitation Emails

Many Apps, Online Games, or other service providers provide an invitation email option to their users so that they can easily invite their friends or relatives directly from their invitation link. Relatives or friends can click on the link to make an account and directly join them.

In this way, companies do not need to send them emails from their end. which can be quite tough and hectic. Both Referal and Invitation emails work the same.

But the main difference between them is, referral emails are mostly sent to get incentives. Sometimes sender and receiver both rewarded with incentives.

Feedback and Support Emails

Support emails are one of the most important transactional emails for a better customer experience. What if a customer raised concern over support email and the email confirmation doesn’t receive? It will be quite frustrating right!!

Even, if the support team didn’t receive the support request in time, the response time will delay and hence overall user experience will be bad.

Support emails help in providing communication between the support team and customers. And provide the request status from regular update notifications to the both ends.

Similarly, a feedback email can also help in aiding a better customer experience. After completing the support request, the support team sends a feedback email to customers asking about their overall experience during the process.

This helps companies to provide better services in near future.

Conclusion

Now, you must have an idea that how transactional email can be so beneficial for both companies as well as customers. It can help in lead conversion when triggered at the right moment.

Strengthen the relationship between companies and customers by providing them fast customer support. And also amend their policies by talking feedback surveys.

Hence, transactional emails are not just limited to ecommerce services, but it has a variety of uses for brining overall better customer experience and services.

Where users need only ESPs (Email service providers) and email addresses to send their electronic mails. But the problem was users, have no clue whether their email has been received, Open or trapped in the Spam folder.

But, this scenario has been changed now with some email tracking software now. It is now possible to know whether your email has been received, opened and attachments being downloaded or not.

Tracking of emails now becomes the ultimate powerful tool, that helps in building a relationship with the recipients. This is what we will discuss in this article “A Quick guide on Email Tracking” and its potential.

Before we engrossed ourselves in further details. Let’s be clear first what is Email Tracking?

Email Tracking definition

Tracking emails is a whole process of marking footprints of sent emails and gather related data for creating better marketing and business strategies. It mostly tracks Geo locations, the time at which mail opened, the number of attachments download, etc.

How does the Email Tracking system work?

The whole tracking process starts with an invisible pixel which is placed by tracking software in emails. The pixel gathers or collects all the information regarding the exact date and time of email opening, link being opened or not, etc. After this, the tracking software sends all the information to the sender.

Let us know what is the process involved:

1. Tracking on link clicks – The email tracking tool converts each link that is provided in the email into a link to the tracking tool. And after that redirects to the original link. This all happens in a fraction of seconds and without delay.
2. Email opening tracking- This tracking process done by your tracking tool. which sets a small invisible 1×1 pixel, at the bottom of the email. And that pixel gives all the information to the tracking tool.
3. Tracking on unsubscribers– This tracking method is similar to tracking link clicks. But in this tracking, you will get to know whether the user has unsubscribed or not.
4. Bounce tracking– The email system knows whether the email has failed to reach its destination or not. This mostly happens due to being marked as spam or containing spammy content. In this way, it helps in maintaining the clean email list by removing or blocking the email contacts which marked you as spam.

Advantages of Email tracking

Tracking email has been beneficial for almost all businesses and marketers in many ways. Lets see how?

Helps in building marketing and business strategies

A perfect marketing strategy can only be built and implement when you have better insights into customer or user behaviour. Similarly. Tracking emails helps you to provide all the information about recipient behaviour.

Helps in email marketing, whether the particular email, which is used for email marketing is relevant to the recipient or not. How much time it took for a recipient to open that particular email that is used for email marketing.

Saves time

It is true that no one will show up interest in multiple emails from the same source. Even if they didn’t open the 1st one. It is totally waste of time, effort, and resources.

But Email tracking helps a sender to know whether the recipient is interested in their emails or not. And if not, the sender can simply stop sending them emails.

Helps in maintaining email list

Tracking emails are not just restricted to tracking only, But with the help of this, you can even clean your email list that can be used for email campaigns. It helps to purge those recipients who are not showing any interest or irrelevant to them.

Disadvantages of Email tracking

Every system and feature has some benefits (which we have talked about before) and flaws. Let us discuss what are the disadvantages of it:

Blocking images

By default some email service providers directly block images by default. This means it also blocks the pixel by default which you have added with the help of tracking software. Due to this you will never get notified about the tracking.

Pixel blockers

Many users don’t like to be tracked by the sender. Hence, they use pixel blocker tools that directly block the installed pixel in their emails.

Preview feature

Some advanced ESPs provide preview features of emails for their users without opening them. This feature will give wrong information and mislead about email opening that will count in email open rate.

Not for Group mails

If you send an email in a group, you won’t be able to know who reads it or not. It will simply give the wrong information and mislead you. Hence, tracking of emails is not beneficial for Group emails.

How to set up a whole Email tracking system?

Sending an email that is being monitored or tracked is not a tough task. And any user can simply implement it with their existing email service provider. The whole setup process is discussed below:

Make email tracking protocols and guidelines for your company

This tracking technology is very useful to enhance the overall recipient experience. This can only be achieved by setting up a tracking guideline for your company. Like, when and how to approach your customers when they have read your email or opened the attachment.

This is a good initiative to approach before beginning any email campaign. And let your team know when clients hit on subscribe button, from there the email tracking is going to be used.

Track through Tracking tools

There are many free and paid tracking tools are available. You can simply install them and simply get notified when someone has opened your emails or clicked on links provided in real-time.

Create an email and send

After installing the tracking software. You can simply open your email account, compose an email for whom you want to send. Meanwhile, when you provide the recipient’s email address, some tracking tools provide you more information about them. Which can be helpful for you to get some valuable context while sending.

Monitor through the tracking tool

After sending the email. Now the final part is to monitor and keep an eye on the status of email on the Tracking app/tool or software. Many tools provide an option to choose which email you want to track.

Conclusion

As compared to the past, there was no software or tools available for tracking or emails. Hence, it became uncertain whether the recipient has opened it or read it.

Not just tracking emails has benefited the sender’s, but it has also changed the whole business and marketing scenario. Through this, email marketers now better know what their subscribers like to read.

What grabs their attention to open an email, when they like to open their email boxes and when to follow- up. It helps in increasing productivity and enhancing the relationship with customers too.

It is also true that no matter how big an Email marketer you are. There will always be a possibility of some error or failure would happen. Due to an increase in strict cybersecurity and strong spam filtration. It is your duty to be ready to know all the possibilities, that affect email deliverability.

What if your Email Deliverability fails? What if your whole email campaign fails? You better know the results. Right!

To avoid such a scenario and fail email campaigns, you must check out the tips to follow and avoid mistakes that affect email deliverability.

Some Important and Basic Tips to Improve Email Deliverability

1. Run A/B testing

A/B testing is one of the most widely used and trusted tools to perform email tests before the final campaign. Marketers took 100 random email contacts from the list and send them two different email templates. This testing method helps to see which Email template Deliverality shows high vitals and high Open rate. And also if there is any issue while sending mails or not.

2. Avoid Hard Bounce emails

A hard bounce email means those emails which couldn’t receive emails due to their non -existence, fake, or invalid email addresses. You must avoid repetitive hard bounce of emails during the campaign because it determines your overall email campaign reputation.

When you keep trying to send hard-bound mails, your ISP will consider it spam and blocks you immediately.

3. Unauthorized email lists

Many email lists are available online and sold in black markets. Since, selling and buying email lists, both considered illegal. But still, some markets use these unauthorized email lists for their email campaigns.

Some of them have legitimate contact lists but in most cases, invalid ones. Hence, increases the risk of hard bounce and being blocked that ultimately results in a poor email deliverability.

4. Scrapping emails from websites

There are various extensions and tools are available online that search and scrap out all the emails hidden in a website to create a contact list. This is not a legal practice and even illegal in many major countries.

5. Avoid using videos, flash, or javascript in your email

Most of the email service provider does not allow video file extensions or flash. In most cases they considered are a potential threat to your computer. Hence a majority of the service providers by default block all videos, flash players, and javascript.

It is better to include an image of your video with a hot “click now” button that directs the user to the video link.

6. Avoid Spam friendly “words”

Almost all Email service providers use a very popular spam filtration technique. They simply look out for the words such as “Hurry!” which sounds illegal, repetitive, or contains abusive words, and block them.

To avoid this, you have to use the power of words and copywriting. Avoid using explicit words or illegal words in your email subject or headline and be creative.

7. Avoid Keyword sttuffing

Keyword Stuffing is one of the major factors for poor google ranking. Because Keyword stuffing degrades the overall user experience. Similarly, you should also avoid keyword stuffing in the email content.

Due to this malpractice, the user will open the email and found it unreal, immediately mark it as spam.

To avoid this, Copywriting is another best practice one should follow. Copywriting is a method by which, precise and more creative use of words used. It attracts recipients to open the email and take necessary CTA.

8. Check spellings before sending emails

You have found on many occasions that, many emails which are either for marketing/promotional or Spam mails have spelling mistakes. This looks not just very unprofessional but an email offense too.

Similarly, your email service provider can also treat it as spam, if the email has any spelling mistakes. So, always check and proofreading your email before sending them.

9. Provide an Unsubscription Option

If all your campaigns are running successfully, even the recipients are not happy. It is better to give them an easy Unsubscription option just down below your email rather than being marked as SPAM.

10. Avoid using Forms in your email template

You must avoid embed forms in your email campaigns,although it is not supported by most of the email clients. But still it will treated as a SPAM.

It is better you must use CTA( Call to Actions) in your email and provide a button that redirects to a Form on a webpage. Or you can even redirect the user to your Landing page.

11. Maintain Clean and Hygenic Email List

For successful Email Deliverability, you check your email list from time to time. Delete and Remove all the invalid contacts from your list. and also remove the unsubscribers from the list for better marketing campaigns to prevail. Do remember, Quality always matters rather than Quantity.

12. Avoid Blacklisted Servers

You must avoid Servers who have a bad reputation and even got blacklisted by ISPs. These servers used spamming method in their previous campaign and get banned or blocked by different ISPs. Usually whenever you try to send email through such blacklisted servers, a” cannot send emails” error message will appear on your screen.

13. Maintain Email sending Frequency

Frequent emails from the same organization will definately hit your subscriber list and even a less email can harm your overall revenue potential.

So what necessary major you should take to increase your email deliverability. To send a perfect number of emails, you need to carry out some email testing. For that, you require a lot of time and it is also possible that during this period, you might make more mistakes.

we would suggest always try to send one email per week and see the results. You can even increase the frequency by 2 emails per week as long as you have some great deals to share.

14. Mobile Optimized email Content

More than 80 percent of internet users use their Mobile phones for browsing and checking Emails. Hence, it becomes necessary that email content must be mobile-friendly. And it is also seen that email Deliverability is quite Good in mobile phones.

You must provide users a seamless mobile-friendly email experience. If not then be ready to get into the spam folder.

15. Always Add “alt text”

Many ESPs ( Email Service Providers) by default block any image in emails. You can even notice that whenever you open an email, you usually see an option “click to load the image” link mentioned.

Adding “alt text” to your image, helps your recipients to know what is in the image without opening it.

Conclusion

Though, there are many more tips like checking IP and ESP reputation, that you can follow to avoid email deliverability failure. So what do you think?

Do you have more tips you are already using? If yes we would love to hear from you. Remember always, “sharing is Caring”.

Yes, it can happen with anybody at any time, but unfortunately, most of us don’t know the exact reason behind this, How to Fix this and What not to do in near future to avoid such.

This Cannot send emails Problem most likely occurred due to your SMTP server. The server is responsible for all kinds of email handling sending email from one end to delivering and receiving at the other end.

You can say SMTP servers are the Email Delivery System and that handles and manages the whole process. Hence, it is the main reason one should always rely on authentic, genuine, and professional servers.

After all, at a commercial level, a failed email delivery can lead to a heavy financial and communication barrier. Since most of the big enterprises’ communication is totally dependent on it.

Let us see what can cause the “cannot send emails” error and what are the possible solutions to fix it.

Possible Reasons and its solution for Cannot Send Emails:

We have got you covered with 9 different solution to remove this issue. Lets check them out.

1. Poor or interrupted internet connectivity

In most cases, poor internet connectivity or no internet can lead to generating such kind of problem. Sometimes Poor internet connectivity unable to make connections with servers and in meantime returns a  “cannot send emails” message. So it is recommended that you must check your internet connectivity and ensure it is working well.

2. Incorrect Email address

Yeah, you heard it right. Even you cannot send emails when you made even a slight mistake in the receiver’s email address. However, it is one of the most common human errors, that most users make.

Even though your email characters are correct and the address is not valid. you will receive a failed email notification stating ” cannot send emails” or email sending failed.

3. Email Blocked by Receiver’s Server end

Emails are work on SMTP servers. Hence, it is also possible that the mail sent from another server may be blocked by the receiver’s server end. This is because Most servers try to avoid suspicious emails by direct blocking them and. Most of the Suspicious and harmful email content consists of  Viruses, harmful content, or Links.

If you have any doubt about the server is trying to block you by sending emails. you should better ask the recipient to check if you had been blocked and make necessary changes to it.

4. Incorrect Passwords

Although it sounds so simple. But in the majority of the cases, people use wrong or incorrect login credentials. And they assume they used the correct password for sending emails. Always either cross-check your login Credentials or Reset your password for your convenience.

Note: Do not simply Copy or Paste passwords, Because some browsers like Mozilla add spaces to your copied and pasted passwords. Either you manually insert the password with the keyboard or 1st paste your password on a notepad and then copy from it.

5. Check Server Details

Always check your Server Credentials i.e username and password before login. Because most of the SMTP servers available use it for authentication and mailing process.

Most popular SMTP servers use mainly two Critical Settings. Authentic Method and Connection Security.

In the Authentic Method, your client uses the mode of authentication system that your email client trying to make contact with the server. Whereas, Connection Security means, the security established between the client and server.

6. Poor SMTP server Connection

Even though using the correct Credentials to the login SMTP server. It is also most likely you cannot send emails. Because due to some reason the server may be down or under maintenance. All you can just wait for a while or ask your provider.

7. Check SMTP ports

Sometimes, ISP is also responsible for cannot send emails problem. Because in most cases, ISP blocks Port 25. which a default port for the SMTP servers to avoid increasing spam traffic. It is recommended that you should use the default port 587 of RFC.

8. Check your Firewall settings

It is also seen that sometimes your system firewalls or Antivirus programs try to block SMTP servers to communicate. You must make sure you check settings and change them required.

9. Blacklisted server

In most severe cases, it is also possible that the server is being blacklisted. It happens when you try to spam the recipient or you send suspicious emails to multiple servers at a time. Due to this, Companies listed the servers which are into spamming and mail malpractices.

Blacklisting is a process by which companies make a list of spammers, to acknowledge their security systems and email providers.

To avoid and fix this issue, you better ask your email service provider or Cybersecurity about the same, they will definitely help you out.

Conclusion

Hope the above-mentioned Solutions for “cannot send emails” will definitely help you out with your problem and it is also recommended if nothing works well, you better contact your email provider through a different email.

Don’t worry after this article you will get the exact idea, which will be backed by several studies by the well-known names in the email marketing industry. I have personally gone through there data and concluded for you in short, so that you can reap the benefits!

Now, Considering the fact that all aspects of the internet, including social media and email, have revolutionized the communication process, companies all over the world have used this to their benefit, by beginning promotion of their products and/or services. Email is one such communication method. To find out the exact time to send emails to your customers can be really tenacious. But it can also help you increase your sales and conversions exponentially. So Let’s dive in to find out what is the best time to send your email campaigns.

The objective of this article is to answer certain queries regarding the same-

1. What is email marketing?
2. How to generate a profit using emails?
3. Best day to send email?
4. Best time to send email campaign?
5. How to send FREE EMAILS & Do Send Time Optimization?
6. Conclusion

What Is Email Marketing?

The Cambridge Dictionary defines email marketing as “the process of advertising goods and/or services by sending bulk emails to customers.” This has benefited businesses and has become a fad with the industry for their outreach programs,  it allows companies to connect with their customers on a more personal level, it also allows them to get information not only about the company but also about the on-going promotions and discounts.

Furthermore, it is a very common form of promotion because not only is it time-saving but is also pocket friendly, it makes global reach possible and most importantly it is timely. You can use several SMTP servers to send free emails. Read about the companies that let you send free emails here is the list of free SMTP servers.

If you are just starting out you can learn more about SMTP Servers with our The Complete Guide To SMTP Servers.

Research by Marketing Sherpa suggests that 72% of the total population prefers to receive information about promotional offers through and other details through email. Moreover, it also helps these companies easily connect with customers who prefer to shop on their laptops, mobiles, etc.

One more study by statista.com suggests that we will be sending and receiving 347 billion emails by 2023.

So now you have the idea of the scale of email marketing is gonna be! Read our guide on an email marketing strategy to increase your conversions.

Other ways in Which email marketing has proved to be beneficial for companies is that it aids them in earning higher Return On Investments (ROI) because; it contributes towards an increase in revenue, brand awareness escalates, it attracts more traffic to the website and it also helps increase sales conversions, it is a more effective form of promotion as compared to social media and it also helps in keeping customers.

The next thing to understand is, how it helps companies generate more revenue.

How to generate a profit using emails?

Emails can be used for a no. of things you can use it to upsell your product, educating your prospects, transactional emails. But according to me, the biggest advantage is to help you maintain your brand presence. Now any customer visiting your website is very less likely to buy your product at once. But when you combine remarketing + emails you can create a deadly drip campaign that can help you convert your customers in the long run. The customer then receives regular updates in the form of your email, it starts to recognise your brand. Prospects will wander off for sure at once (I have seen that in my marketing career) but once they see your brand again and again they start to develop trust and eventually will convert. 

 Email Marketing Gives a ROI of $38 for every $1 that you spend as investment

The rate of sales conversions also increases as it attracts a large number of customers, which eventually results in high Return On Investments (ROI) of these companies. Another factor that contributes towards this is that email marketing helps raise awareness about the company. This happens because, by building relationships with consumers, helps them increase visibility. Increased visibility means, the number of target customers also increases, and consequently the company is able to earn maximum profits.

Pro Tip – Before scheduling your email campaigns I will recommend you go through The CAN-SPAM Act of Marketing to avoid any penalties and legalities.

Therefore, with the advancement in technology that is only going to continue to develop, email marketing has become the most preferred form of promotion of products and/or services due to all the above-mentioned reasons. Over time, this preference is only going to continue to grow, due to the very fact that it is easily accessible, versatile and most importantly contributes towards building relations with customers scattered all over the vast geographical landscape.

Best Day To Send Email?

Now it can widely vary from your country to your industry. If you are in a business that operates in night i.e your customers have a demand for your product at night. This study does not hold valid. The data has been compiled from more than 20 million customers. If you are a regular business This is the data for you and might help you increase your open rates + conversions. Read on to find the best time to send marketing emails.

Disclaimer –  The data has been compiled by many email industry leaders, I have just analysed it for you 

Top studies on the best time of day to send emails-

1. Research by SendinBlue industry-specific research.
2. Tips for sending emails at best time Constant Contact.
3. WordStream’s research on the very best time to send email newsletters.
4. Research by GetResponse on the best day to send email.
5. MailChimp’s insights for send time optimization.
6. Research by GetResponse on best days to send email newsletters.

Remaining studies on the time of day to send emails that we have analysed

1. Research by Customer.io’s  best day to send emails.
2. Original findings from curated data by Propeller.
3. Research by CampaignMonitor’s on the best time to send email campaigns.
4. HubSpot’s best time to send a business email report.
5. CNBC’s findings from an interview with MailChimp’s own John Foreman.

Analysis by FreeSMTPServers on the best day to send emails!

1. Tuesday: Among all the studies mentioned most of these points out towards Tuesday being the number #1 to send your email blast.
2. Thursday: If you send approximately two to three emails in a week, Tuesday + Thursday makes the best combination for you. Thursday #2 in our list.
3. Wednesday: Wednesday was not the best day to send your emails in most of the studies but it definitely came in the second place in many studies that we analysed. Wednesday is the #3 in our list of the best day to send your emails.

Disclaimer – Some of the studies mentioned weekends as the best time to send your emails due to high open and CTR but I want to point out that overall brands refrain themselves from sending emails on weekends. In some studies, it might be given as the best time to send emails but the data is not that rich to back it up as comparatively very few companies send their emails on weekends.

#Most of the studies point out that the middle of the week is the optimum day to send your emails

There are four basic indicators that help in studying the best time to send emails namely; % ‘Open Volume’ refers to the total number of emails sent, that were opened during a fixed period of time. For example, if the open volume for a given day, say, Wednesday is 39 %.  This means, 39 % of all the emails sent in the given week were opened. Read about how you can use email automation to increase your sales.

 The next is % ‘Click Volume’. It is used to measure the total number of emails that were clicked on and were actually useful to the consumer, during a particular period of time For example, if the click volume for Tuesday is  12 %. This means that 12%t of all emails circulated during the week were actually useful to the consumers. Followed by ‘Open Rate’ which measures the total number of emails sent that were opened by the subscribers.  Finally, ‘Click Rate’, which is used to measure the total number of emails that were actually useful of all the emails that were sent. 

Let’s See the Data to back our claims –

• MailChimp has found out Thursday as the number one day to send your email blasts followed by Tuesday

• According to GetResponse the most optimum time is Thursday and then the second peak is on Tuesday

• Data by wordstream suggests that Thursday and Tuesday are the best time to send your email campaigns

• Customer.io analysed the data that shows that your emails has the maximum open rate on Tuesdays also Saturdays may also be a good day to send an email campaigns.

Data by HubSpot shows that Tuesday is the best day followed by Monday and Wednesday

Best time to send email campaign?

This is what freesmtpservers found out after analyzing studies from various email sending platforms.

1. 10-11 AM – Several studies concluded that 10 am to 11am is the best time to send your marketing emails
2. 8 PM to Midnight – People generally checks there phones before sleeping hence this is the best time.
3. 2 PM – People are generally having lunch break at this time, so these email campaigns get the maximum open rate
4. 6-7 AM – Most people start there day by checking there phone so it makes more sense to send an early morning email blast.

Now let’s look at the data to back our claims of these results –

• Campaign Monitor’s research shows that morning 10 AM to 11 AM is definitely the best time to send your email campaigns. As we can see in the image that the maximum open rates is at 10 AM. Campaign Monitor study reveals that 53% of emails are opened during the weekday between 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

• Research by MailChimp confirms that sending emails between 10 a.m.–noon will get you the most opens. That is the optimum time according to there study.

• According to wordstream 2 PM looks like a great time to send and its study shows that 2 PM has the maximum open time.

• Customer.io’s research found that email opens are highest from 8 p.m.–12 p.m, with a second peak between 4–8 p.m.

• HubSpot suggests that Sending emails at 11 a.m. have the best open rates.

I want to point out that companies with different niches will have different audiences. As shown in a study by SendinBlue –

Try sending your emails on the following times to get the maximum open rate-

1. Tuesday at 10 a.m.
2. Wednesday at 2 p.m.
3. Tuesday at 6 a.m.
4. Thursday at 8 p.m.
5. Thursday at 10 a.m.
6. Wednesday at 8 p.m.
7. Tuesday at 2 p.m.
8. Tuesday at 8 p.m.
9. Thursday at 2 p.m.
10. Thursday at 6 a.m.
11. Wednesday at 10 a.m.
12. Wednesday at 6 a.m.

Try sending the emails on the above stated times, we have given you the time for approx 12 emails for one-month strategy.

Pro Tip – Try sending your emails, 30 minutes prior to the peak time.

How to send FREE EMAILS & Do Send Time Optimization?

There are several tools that let you schedule and send you free emails. We will let you know about major free email services out there and how you can send time optimised emails using these services.

Sendinblue

Sendinblue offers 9000 free emails per month along with this, you can design your own email from scratch or choose from there existing professional-looking email templates. It is totally free of cost. I will suggest you have a look at there service, I was quite impressed by there offerings and we recommend using Sendinblue. Try There Service

If you are willing to spend you can opt for there 25$ monthly plan, which unloads a plethora of services. You can really do truckload with there services. Check out all there Plans here

You can send mails automatically using Sendinblue transactional email attribute, segment your emails.

You can optimise your email campaigns using A/B testing and optimise your future campaigns for better open rates and conversions.

The advanced attribute of SendInBlue CRM helps in creating different lists such as visit time along with a source of acquisition. Start sending free emails here

Send Time Optimisation With SendinBlue

Once you have designed your emails using Sendinblue Drag N Drop campaign builder, you need to schedule your emails.

You have three ways to send your email campaigns-

• Send Now
• Schedule for some specified time
• Choose the best time to send your email campaigns

Choose  “Send at the best time” to let the Sendinblue automation do wonder with your email campaign.

You just have to select the date when you want to send your emails. On that day, SendinBlue automatically will send your emails at the optimal time to engage each recipient. All recipients will receive the email on the specified day. If you liking our blog I am sure you will love our SendinBlue Pricing & Review

How the best sending time is determined?

Each recipient is different and time is calculated for each individual separately. If that individual has already received emails from Sendinblue, they optimise your emails for each person according to its previous open habits. So that you have the best open and CTR.

If a particular recipient is the first time receiver of emails from Sendinblue, the best time is determined on the basis of the opening time of previous campaigns.

The optimal time is displayed directly below the campaign’s scheduled date.

SendinBlue learns with each campaign and with time it automatically optimises your campaigns for better returns on your investments. Check out Sendinblue automation.

What if I choose the campaign to send at the best time on the current day?

Yes, you can but if the best time has passed for some contacts, the message will be sent on the next day (within 24 hours).

Pro Tip – If your campaign is time-sensitive I recommend going for there option to send on a specific time option. It is recommended scheduling your first campaign at a specific time. SendinBlue will learn from your campaign’s engagement to determine the optimal send time for future campaigns.

Disclaimer –  This feature is available only with premium and enterprise plans of Sendinblue

Conclusion

This clearly indicates that the middle of the week is surely the best time to send your email blasts. The emails help companies to connect with customers at a very personal level which helps them in understanding their needs and wants. Moreover is helps them in working on their loopholes such that they are constantly working on themselves to be more customer-centric.

General FAQ

When is the best time to send a newsletter?

We analysed more than 11 studies conducted by email sending tools and found that there are four perfect times to send your newsletters that are

1. 6 A.M as people tend to check there phones first thing in the morning
2. 10 A.M Several studies show 10 A.M to be the best time to send your newsletters
3. 2 P.M People tend to have lunch or break time when they tend to check their phones and you will have amazing open time
4. 8 P.M to Midnight People generally checks there phones before sleeping hence this is the best time

When is the best time to send a marketing email?

The top 4 times to send a marketing email is as follows –

1. 6-7 AM – Most people start there day by checking their phone so it makes more sense to send an early morning email blast.
2. 10-11 AM – Several studies concluded that 10 am to 11 am is the best time to send your marketing emails
3. 2 PM – People are generally having a lunch break at this time, so these email campaigns get the maximum open rate
4. 8 PM to Midnight – People generally checks there phones before sleeping hence this is the best time.

When is the best time to send an email campaign?

According to FreeSMTPServers best time to send an email campaign are –

1. 8 P.M as people generally check their phones before going to bed
2. 2 P.M people generally take a break at this time so this makes an optimum time to send your email campaign
3. 6 A.M more than 50% of people check there phones the first thing in the morning.

When is the best time to send an email?

The best time to send an email is 6 A.M, 2 P.M and from 8 P.M to Midnight as analysed by FreeSMTPServers.com by studying data from more than 10 studies conducted by famous email providers.

When’s the best time to send an email?

The best time to send an email is Early morning around 6 A.M, and between 8 P.M to Midnight. as people tend to check there phones the first thing in the morning and before sleeping. Data analysed by FreeSMTPServers from studies by best email providers.

What is the best day to send an email campaign?

The best day to send an email campaign is Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday as analysed by FreeSMTPServers from data provided by well-known names in the email industry. Like GetResponse, Constant Contact etc. More than 10 studies have been analysed to reach this conclusion.

What’s the best day of the week to send out direct mail?

The best day to send direct mail is Tuesday if you send just one direct mail in a week but if you are looking at sending two direct emails per week Tuesday Thursday makes the best combination.

What day is the best day to send an email blast?

The best day to send an email blast is Tuesday and Thursday. Tuesday and Thursday have the most open rate when you send an email blast.

It is a relatively new player and it has done fairly well for a newbie, it offers some amazing marketing templates, customisable and its UI and UX. Nathan has done a very good job with the product design and is easy to use even for non-techies.

In this ConvertKit Review, we will cover the following topics –

• Website Go Through
• ConvertKit Review
• Why Choose ConvertKit –  Features in detail!
• ConvertKit Pricing
• ConvertKit Alternatives
• ConvertKit Affiliate
• Final Conclusion and Ratings

ConvertKit Website Go Through

Let’s start by discussing the ConvertKit website. I think Nathan and his team have done a wonderful job they have a very user-friendly and good looking website. It is at par with its well established ConvertKit Alternative – The SendInBlue. I have compared the websites of two due to a sense of similarity in their product designs (Both have an amazing website design which I personally adore). You can read a detailed SendInBlue Review here.

ConvertKit has a very interactive and appeasing website full of lots of graphics. I really liked the colour-scheme. The video explanation in the right side when you open the website is a slick move, but I guess It would have been much better if they have tried to entice the users visiting its websites. Something like how it’s customers grow with them or something like how they earn more money. I don’t know “perhaps a seed that slowly grows into a big powerful tree full of money“. Learn how to make money using your email marketing strategy with our guide “A Complete Guide To Your Email Marketing Strategy In 2022“

In the above the fold animation department I will say SendinBlue has won the first scuffle with its innovation. That shows how SendInBlue customers start with a cycle, then gets a basic car, afterwards what appears to be a personalised vanity van and then finally they take off for the clouds. Check out the SendinBlue Innovative Animation Video.

Also, ConvertKit could have utilised the space between the carousel in a much better way, It looks empty but it’s clean. At a time when you “just have around 5 seconds to convert a customer – Neil Patel”. It does play a very very important role in digital marketing. Learn more about what is an autoresponder, how they works and what are the best free email autoresponders.

Small Product Changes Lead To Big Conversions

Website Ratings Out Of 10

Website Colour Scheme

Convert Kit –  7            SendInBlue – 6.5

Website Animation Video Graphics

Convert Kit –  6            SendInBlue – 7.5

Overall Website Experience

Convert Kit –  6            SendInBlue – 7.5

SendinBlue won this round !

ConvertKit Review

ConvertKit works on the newer technology and has a freshness in it, unlike the traditional email services which are struggling to cope with the changing technology or have a steep learning curve. ConvertKit offers powerful email automation with an easy to use interface. It’s pricing is I would say in the medium price range. You can easily send transactional emails using convertkit.

They focus on acquiring name with content creators that has got my attention, I guess they have a hawk-eye focus on bloggers, you-tubers etc. I think it is a smart move with the current boost in the numbers of content creators.

Pro Tip – Before sending your email campaigns, Read about can spam act of marketing to avoide any penalties from the law enforesement agencies.

That makes them simple and you do not get confused with too many features that is the case with so many other email providers out there. They have recently launched a Freemium Plan which is for less than 1000 subscribers but it does not offers most of the advanced features. Also there pricing starts with $29 per month if you pay monthly and $24 if you subscribe for an annual plan. Which I personally feel are in a little higher end when compared with other players. You can use convertkit for email automation as well, for those who don’t know what is email automation?

Why Choose ConvertKit – Features in detail!

Let’s discuss the features in detail –

Pros

1. It offers a very good landing page and form editor. With over 35 landing page templates. You can easily create one using their templates and I guess they have something for everyone. It lets you create a landing page even if you don’t have a website. You can create one which you can use for your social media campaigns and increasing your conversions. Free Sign up to check out there Landing page editor.
2. I personally loved there subscribers and tagging system. I think it is smooth and efficient. You can run a very focused campaign to your contacts with its tagging system. You can read more about the subscribers here.
3. You get premium support, the support is really helpful and quick on their heels so that any issue faced is handled with efficiency and swiftness. Read more about there support here.
4. They also have a referral in place where you can refer to your friends for every successful referral you can add 100 more Subscribers. Which I think is Smart marketing referral program.

Check out our study on the best time to send email campaigns where we have analysed more than 20 million subscribers using data from well established email providers in the email marketing industry.

Cons

1. I would like to point out that the email editor lacks the advanced integration features like the gif, video integrations which I would really like to see in the future. Check out an article I found why you need to use GIFs to increase your email conversions.
2. It is a little big in the pricey end when compared to other players like the SendInBlue. Check out SendinBlue Pricing
3. They have If/Then/Else logic but it is difficult to use if you are not coding friendly. For more advanced features you can try Get Response.
4. ConstantKit Email Template Designs could be better, and I would expect them to have more design templates in the future. If you want a huge number of templates, For better templates I would suggest using Constant Contact instead.

Read about ConvertKit features in detail here

ConvertKit Pricing

You can start with a free plan in which you get mobile responsive designs, 35+ landing page designs, subscriber tagging, 500 email subscribers, send email broadcasts. You don’t get any reporting, automation click funnels, API integration. Let’s move on to discussing ConvertKit Pricing

ConvertKit Pricing plans start with just $29 per month for 1000 subscribers. In this plan you will not get free platform migration, you will have to do that on your own. For plans starting $79 per month you get free migration service through there support.

They have the following plans in place –

1. $29 for 1000 subscribers
2. $49 for 3000 subscribers
3. $79 for 5000 subscribers (Free Migration)
4. $99 for 8000 subscribers (Free Migration)
5. $119 for 10,000 subscribers (Free Migration)

ConvertKit Alternatives

Following are the best ConvertKit Alternatives –

Read in detail all about ConvertKit Alternatives.

ConvertKit Affiliate

Convert Kit has a very successful affiliate program in place, they offer 30% commission on recurring basis paid every month. I too applied for the affiliate program but then received a mail stating that due to a high number of affiliate requests they take 4-6 weeks to approve you to convertkit affiliate program. I found that very strange personally! That’s a huge amount of time they should buckle up as competitors and alternatives like the SendinBlue or Constant Contact have a huge advantage over them!

Final Conclusion and Ratings

ConvertKit has an amazing product and the website. Features are quite good but I found it a little expensive as compared to ConvertKit alternatives. Sendinblue is a very good convertkit alternative and is caching fast with convertkit.

Email marketing is surely the best way to promote your product and services. It is the least expensive and gives results fast. As soon as you send a targeted email to your subscribers you sure will see the humongous surge in your traffic. So let’s move forward to our best email services guide

In this article, we will cover the following topics –

1. The best free email services (For EMail Marketing)
2. The Best free email account services (For Personal Use)
3. Price Comparison of the best email services (For Marketing)

So without wasting any more time lets get on to it right away!

The best free email services-

1. SendinBlue – 9,000 Free Emails Every Month
2. Constant Contact – 10,000 Free Email | Payment Method Required
3. Elastic Email –  Unlimited Emails to 10,000 Contacts | $10
4. Pepipost – 150,000 for $25
5. GetResponse

1. SendinBlue

SendinBlue – The Free Email Sender is a relatively new join in the best mail services club. Established in 2012 by Armand Theberge, Kapil Sharma. It is an email marketing company that lets you send free emails to unlimited subscribers. It is sure the best mail services out there. Let’s discuss in detail to understand why we recommend using Sendinblue for sending free emails and scaling your business.

• SendinBlue Pricing
• SendinBlue Features
• SendinBlue Alternatives
• Sendinblue Review
• Why Sendinblue is Perfect Mailchimp Alternative
• How to use Sendinblue in WordPress to Send FREE EMAILS

SendinBlue Pricing

SendinBlue in these hard times is giving you 1000 free emails daily. This sure makes it the best email service for this year. But in general, they provide 9000 free emails to their customers which you can send to unlimited subscribers but the free emails are limited by 300 daily free emails, hence the name free email sender. Their lite plans start at a very reasonable cost of $25 for which you can send unlimited free emails daily limited to 40,000 emails monthly to unlimited subscribers the drawback is the emails will contain a Sendinblue logo. Sign up to start sending free emails to unlimited subscribers

Then comes their essential plan which is ideal for growing businesses starting just $39 for which you get 60,000 free emails for a month along with advanced statistics and removal of Sendinblue logo.

You can either click on the image below or SendinBlue Pricing to check out their plans in detail.

Read Our Comparison “Sendinblue vs Mailchimp – The Complete Guide 2022“

SendinBlue Features

SendinBlue offers features that are in line with some of the best email services on the planet. So let’s get to it.

1. As mentioned before the cherry on the cake is their drag and drop editor that lets you send fully customizable emails, they offer more than 70+ templates to choose from. We are sure they got something for everybody.
2. Perform A/B test to increase your conversions by choosing the best email copy from all your campaigns also you can automate sending the emails at the time when they increase your conversions.
3. Sendinblue CRM I must say is quite simple and efficient, that lets you import all your contacts data and lets you make notes for each subscriber
4. Sendinblue CRM’s advanced features let you create lists on the basis of similar characteristics like the source of acquisition.
5. Automate your emails and send customized emails to each of your subscribers to show that you care using Sendinblue transactional email feature
6. You can easily integrate Sendinblue in WordPress. Read everything about integrations here.

You can check out the different features offered by Sendinblue 

You can read about the detailed article on SendinBlue Review & Pricing by us.

Read our Guide on “Best Time To Send Your Email Campaigns“where we have analyses data from over 20 million email senders, and over 10 huge studies conducted by some most famous names in email industry!

2. Constant Contact

It’s just evident if you have any little knowledge about email marketing you must have heard about the constant contact email marketing software. They are the behemoth of emails.

• Constant Contact Pricing
• Constant Contact Features
• Constant Contact Alternatives

They too have a very good looking website, I really liked their UI and with them, your email marketing is surely in safe hands. I will say they are the best email service out there. It doesn’t get any better than this. They have over 20 years of experience in email marketing.

I am sure with them you will be as calm as these guys in the image!

Constant Contact Pricing

Constant Contact lets you send free emails for the first month to unlimited subscribers. The first month is absolutely free so you can send 10,000 free emails for first month. The Lite plan starts with just $5 per month, you can send 10,000 emails in a month.

Then comes the email basic plan that starts with $20 in which you can send unlimited emails to 500 subscribers.

Update the plan as you grow in size. You can get a prepaid plan and get 20% off if you pay for the annual plan you get a 30% discount.

With this pricing, Its almost a free email sender. You can make pop-ups, list segmentation, automated abandoned cart email, woo commerce integration, etc. with the most basic plan. Read all about their plans in detail here.

Read our guide on Can-Spam Act on Marketing before sending your email campaigns. To avoid any kind of penalties by the law!!

Constant Contact Features

Constant Contact comes packed with so many amazing features. Let’s check them out without wasting any more time –

1. They have a very efficient drag and drop editor. You can make professional-looking emails with their pre-designed templates.
2. You can trigger emails to specified actions taken by your customers. Like, send a welcome mail, resend emails to recipients who haven’t opened your emails, contact segmentation, etc. If you want to read more about constant contact features in detail you can read about them by clicking on the link provided.
3. If you are looking at an email provider for your e-commerce business these are the guys for you. You can acquire new customers, create triggers, keep existing customers reminding about your brand and so much more.

SignUp for FREE To Start Sending Free Emails

3. Elastic Email

Elastic Email is number third on our list of the best email services. Elastic Email was founded by Joshua Perina and Michal Bochnak in 2010. The main motto was to provide email services to non-tech guys who find other services hard to understand or operate.

• Elastic Email Pricing 
• Elastic Email Features
• Elastic Email Alternatives
• Elastic Email Review by FreeSMTPServes
• How to use Elastic Email in WordPress to send Free Transactional emails

Elastic Email is a powerful email marketing tool that you can use for email automation, sending unlimited free emails, you can schedule automated email delivery, import emails, build a contact list. It offers you intuitive email marketing campaigns and a bunch of other cool stuff which we will discuss in detail later in this article. Let’s start by having a look at their website.

Personally I think they have an average looking website and they can work on their UI and UX. The first impression can be a hindrance to conversion I agree. But they offer some amazing features that I really liked that’s why they are number two on my list.

Read about email automation and how to increase your sales using email automation!!

Elastic Email Pricing

They are focused on small and medium businesses that are evident from their pricing. You get a free trial account with every feature for the first 30 days, you can add as many subscribers you want, free email templates, behaviour-based automation, etc. Sign up now!

The pricing starts with just $ 10 for monthly plans for unlimited emails to 10,000 subscribers you can also avail their free plan. But the free plan has a daily sending limit which I didn’t like as such.

Elastic Email Features

Elastic Email is a relatively new player in the market yet it has some of the most prestigious clients, they have more than 200,000 customers at the moment. Elastic Email has highly functional features that make it a very intuitive automated email marketing platform. Also, it has plenty of plans and features in place. That’s why they are number three on our list of best email services.

Let’s discuss Elastic Email features in detail –

1. It offers marketing automation for professionals. It lets you send targeted email sequences and triggered emails to responses. Powerful eCommerce API’s to set up amazingly email responses to each trigger. Read this behaviour-based automation feature in detail here.
   
2. Send targeted personal emails so that your emails don’t feel ordinary. Send tailored emails to your subscribers. Elastic Email lets you send customized emails in a tailored manner to each of your recipients. Read about it Elastic Email’s dynamic content feature in detail here.
   
3. Mailigen lets you target the more interested customers in a different way rather than the ones that are less interested in your emails and have a low open rate. Customize your messages to different potential customers to increase your conversions. Signup here to start your email automation journey.

You can read all the elastic email features in detail here.

Just to point out you can also use free SMTP servers to send free emails.

Thank you for staying so long, I thought you might be bored so for no reason at all I present to you the joke of the blog!:D

Joke of the Blog

I recently got married so this is apt! I just hope she never finds out

One day my wife accused me of being immature. So I told her to get out of my fort !

4.Pepipost

I think you don’t know about this jewel to date. Third, on my list is Pepipost it is one of the best email services. Pepipost is a new entrance to this list of free email services. It is a free SMTP server provider that lets you send free emails. If you don’t know what are SMTP servers or how SMTP works we got the right article for you. Pepipost was founded in 2015 by developers who were tired of the mails ending up in spam folders.

• Pepipost Pricing
• Pepipost Features
• Pepipost Alternatives
• How to use Pepipost On WordPress

Pepipost Pricing

Pepipost gives you 30,000 free emails when you sign-up a trial plan valid for 30 days. After that, you will get 100 free emails per day for a lifetime. That is why it is second on our list of best free email services. It has some of the most economical pricing I have ever seen with all the advanced features out there you name it they most probably got it. They are still growing at a rapid pace. Their plans start with just $25 that lets you send 150,000 emails to unlimited subscribers. Also if you buy their annual plan you get 30% off and the most basic plan will be for just $17.5 per month.

How cool is that!

Or should I say

How cheap is That!

Once you exhaust the limit you get extra 1000 emails just for $0.60. Have a look at the Pepipost Plans here.

Superhero Pepi sure knows how to save you a ton of money! Sign Up for Free and let the marketing begin:)

Pepipost Features

For a small company, I must say they got some pretty big features! Let’s see what this best email service has in store for us.

1. Pepipost got its servers data centers all around the world that makes its deliverability one of the best among the email services available.
2. Pepipost is the best free email service out there it is simple, easy to use, just change the config. to point to Pepipost Email Service Server
3. The backup of your SMTP is stored for 90 days more than most of the other email services offer. You can easily track your SMTP too.
4. Send transactional emails using Pepipost API. Read all about how to integrate the pepipost with popular frameworks
5. It supports open source email marketing software like mautic and mailtrain. Read in detail here

You can Sign up here for free and start sending free emails!

5.GetResponse

GetResponse is number 5th on our list of the best free email services. GetResponse has one of the best delivery rates in the industry. You can either design beautiful emails from your own or just make changes to the free templates present.

• GetResponse Pricing
• GetResponse Features
• GetResponse Alternatives

GetResponse Pricing

GetResponse gives you a 30-day free trial. You can send emails to 1000 contacts free of cost. If you are a growing business and you want to conduct small webinars of up to 10 people, you can do that with a free get response plan. You can also design landing pages in GetResponse free plan, but it is limited to just 1000 visitors after then you need to update to one of GetResponse paid plans.

Their plans start with $15 for monthly plans for which you can send emails to 1000 subscribers, you can also buy their annual plan for just $10.50 if you pay in one go.

GetResponse Features

1. With GetResponse you can send follow up emails easily, design good looking email auto-responses.
2. You can send timely transactional emails in a timely manner that lets you increase your email conversions. Send customized emails like purchase orders, password resets, abandoned carts, etc.
3. With GetResponse Targeted recipient’s emails, you can increase your conversions multiple times and earn profits.

You can read about all their email marketing features here

The Best free email account services (For Personal Use)

In this part of the article we will cover some of the best email account services out there. Before moving forward it is only logical to note that email account services can be broadly divided in two parts email clients and webmail services. The email world has three major email protocols namely the Exchange, POP3, and IMAP. Let’s have a look at best email accounts available to us.

Best free email account services –

1. Gmail
2. AOL
3. Outlook
4. Mail.com
5. ProtonMail

1. Gmail

We mostly will be aware of the “Gmail Free Email Service by Google“. Gmail comes under the webmail category and it has the second-largest market share just behind the Apple’s native email app. To sign up you just need a Google account to register with Gmail. It comes loaded with a google suit with so many additional features like the hangout (Gmail chat) video conferencing feature etc.

For those who don’t know Gmail also offers SMTP services for email marketing. You can read about Gmail SMTP here. If you are a beginner you probably wouldn’t know about SMTP. It sure is the best email account out there!

Read here about What is an SMTP?

With hangouts you can easily share files, send images and do video conferencing with your fellow Gmail account holders. You can also easily set meetings and reminders with a Gmail account. With Google you also get ease of using its other products as well like, you can easily access your youtube account by logging in using your Gmail account also you get 15GB disk storage to store your documents etc. with google drive. The best part is it is absolutely free of cost. You can sign up here.

It has a very easy to use and a very good user interface to makes things organized in your already chaotic life!

Gmail sure is the boss!

Learn what is new in Gmail here

2. AOL

AOL is second in our list of free email account services as it comes with a feature that keeps our worries at bay. It has UNLIMITED STORAGE! AOL is a webmail type of email service. This is the best pick for you if you conduct most of your communication through email.

AOL or we should call it America Online is a very ancient (deliberately used this term) email account service provider. AOL was overtaken by Verizon in 2015, it has grown so much after that and Verizon sure has kept the features at par with other email account services out there. Sign up here for free

America Online (I feel nostalgic just typing those words) has quietly kept up with today’s standards for a good user experience. The classic AOL is now once again one of the best free email accounts available to you.

AOL comes with advanced features like the virus protection and spam filters, send instant text messages using AOL from your email inbox using some specific windows. Thats why it is second in our list of best free email accounts. AOL without a doubt stands at the second position of our list of best email accounts out there.

AOL Mail do have some advantages over Gmail, like you can import contacts using a TXT, CSV or LDIF file or you can just create a list from the start. You can also download the AOL MAIL APP to get started

3. Outlook

Outlook is an email client type of email account service provider. It is the right email account service for you if you use different platforms to connect with others.

Outlook has to be third on our list for sure, due to its ability to clinge to different apps effectively. You can connect Facebook, Skype, Paypal, Powerpoint for starters with your outlook account. Also you can set your calender or send invites for the meeting as in other popular email services like the gmail.

The cherry on the cake is that outlook works best even for task-management Softwares like trello. Trello sure makes it very easy to communicate efficiently with non-outlook users too. Like the Gmail outlook too offers 15 GB free storage for every user. You can signup here for free and check how smooth their interface is!

4. Mail.com

Mail.com is a webmail type of service and we have to give them full marks for their innovation, they give you over 200 options of choosing your domain name!

It is best for self-employed, freelancers and small & medium-size businesses. Check out mail.com tools in details here. It is surely offers the best email account

The only disadvantages of mail.com is it doesn’t offer any good storage space as compared to its contempories, it only offers 2GB free storage. The star features remain the 200 custom domain name options it offers you. It means that you can actually change the domain name that appears in the last like the “mail.com” to match your niche or usage. So that no one finds out which email account service you are using.

It sure has a domain name out there for you. Sign Up here for free to start using different domain names. That makes it one of the best free email accounts available.

Some of the top options of domain names available on mail.com are as follows-

• dr.com
• cheerful.com
• accountant.com
• techie.com
• engineer.com
• mail.com
• email.com
• post.com
• europe.com
• asia.com
• iname.com
• usa.com
• linuxmail.org
• musician.org
• contractor.net
• financier.com
• workmail.com
• myself.com
• consultant.com

Mail.com doesn’t rest on its 200 laurels, though, as the email provider also comes with a calendar for creating and tracking your events each week.

5.Proton Mail

Proton Mail is surely the most secured webmail out there for sure. It has gained its name due to its security features and being the most safest email for privacy. It is the best email if you want to share some sensitive email. It is one of the best email account services.

Proton mail offers 500MB of free space, I know it’s very less but hey you need to cut some slack for our most secured email account service, it is offering you world-class encryption that too free of cost. SIGN UP HERE for free 

Proton Mail works best on any devices and you don’t need to download any additional software to start sending encrypted emails. It’s UI and UX is in accordance with the other email account services like the Gmail or the mail.com. Proton mail offers also one more feature that caught our eye, it provides you with colour-coded labels to organise which of your email’s require the most security. Learn more about protonmail physical security features here

I hope that I could get you some clarity about the best email services out there through my blog!

Price Comparison Of The Best Email Services (For Marketing)

General FAQ Questions –

Which is the best email account?

There are several free email account services available online. It totally depends on what kind of service you are looking at. Below are some of the best email account services available online for respective reasons –

1. Microsoft Outlook (Best Email Client Account Provider)
2. Gmail ( Best WebMail Account Provider)
3. Proton Mail (Most Secured Email Account)

Which is the best free email account?

There are many free email accounts out there. But according to us “Gmail is the best free email account service of all times”

Which is the best email provider?

Some of the best email providers are –

1. SendinBlue
2. Constant Contact
3. Mailigen
4. Pepipost
5. GetResponse

What is the best email to use?

If you are looking at sending free emails you might choose among the “best emails to use – Gmail and Outlook”

What is the best free email account?

Following are the best free email accounts available out there-

1. Gmail – The most reliable best free email account provider out there
2. Yahoo Mail – Yahoo mail is also gaining its share in free email account providers market. With 1 TB free storage, it is number 2 in our list
3. Outlook – A free email account on Outlook.com is just as useful as its counterparts the Gmail and Yahoo, with the added bonus that it’s easy to 1. Offers folder organization  2.Apply “sweep” rules to keep your inbox clean 3.Create email rules just like you do in the Outlook desktop app
4. Proton Mail – It is one of the most secure and popular free email account service available, you can create Folders and labels to organize your inbox and it provides you with 2-Factor encryption, and the ability to see all sessions logged into your account.
5.  GMX Email – GMX is one of the most deceptively simple free email accounts on the planet that looks, but there’s much more than meets the eye.

The use of emails for business can be quite intimidating and confusing, especially if you want conversions using emails, think of it as a puzzle, that to a very complex one!! If you agree, then what are some of the best free SMTP server providers for sending emails and how to send emails using them? What you should be looking into when buying an SMTP service? They give you new tools to make your current activities simpler and to discover whole new possibilities. In case you are a beginner and wondering What is SMTP? or How SMTP works? 

In this article, we have discussed one such service, Mailify and let’s look at the points that we have covered in this article, also you can directly click on the links below to navigate easily to your interested section.

1. Mailify Review
2. Mailify Features
3. Mailify Pricing
4. Mailify Alternatives
5. Conclusion 

Mailify Review: How’s it different?

Mailify is an all-in-one marketing platform which includes email & marketing automation, a modernized interface, SMS Marketing, and a web version of the application. Its web version has a clean and friendly user interface. It has a rich library of email templates with interesting layouts & designs.

Check out below some of their email templates –

Mailify has a super cool editor, you can directly choose from the widget with drag & drop feature and your design will be ready in a few clicks. You can opt from mobile, desktop and tablet view to see how your email will look.

Start designing your email templates for free here.

Mailify provides a desktop application which can store data locally and can be synced to the cloud if required. This helps in data security in case you don’t want to share it with other parties.

Due to its secure platform, it is number one in our list of most secure email providers for email marketing.

Mailify Features

Mailify has modern web interface with brand new features. It comes with some of the most amazing marketing automation features and a cool UX. Check it out yourself!

You also have the option of choosing between which data you want to upload to there cloud, I personally liked this feature the most! Read here Why you should choose Mailify?

Let’s look at some of the popular features of Mailify –

• With Mailify email emulator you can easily look at how your emails will look in different mobile devices (IOS, Andriod).
• It’s a background in data security, surely adds to its authenticity and makes it a popular and safe email marketing service.
• You get to choose among 70 templates, which can be edited to send emails in a minute’s time. I found their templates impressive. You can check out the Mailify advanced email builder here!!

• They have a very advanced CRM which can easily be used to analyse, manage and use your contact’s data in the most efficient way!!

• The thoughtful distribution of servers makes the email deliverability rate impressive when compared to its counterparts.
  

• They have advanced reporting features that help you analyse your campaigns better and increase your conversions. You can track the open rate, clicks, reach of your campaigns etc. Read more about there advanced features here.

Some of the pros and cons of Mailify that we noticed are –

Mailify Pros

1. Unlimited Contacts – Users can upload an unlimited number of receipts, not an easy feature to find currently.
2. Templates – Fantastic templates with more than 70 beautiful and mobile-responsive templates to select.
3. Reporting – Advanced reporting method with deep diving features.
4. Editor – Flexible editor with rich functionality. 
5. Data Security – Mailify desktop version lets you save data locally.

Mailify Cons

1. Mailify Pricing – When volumes are on the higher side per month then it becomes competitive in pricing, for small volumes becomes expensive. Tools like Sendinblue have similar pricing but offer way more in terms of features & performance.
2. Segmentation – Tagging is not there. Accessing/Viewing is not the best in the class.
3. Landing Pages – Although flexible in design lacks in creating forms.

Read about transactional emails and how to use transactional emails to make your life simpler.

Mailify Pricing

Mailify has a different style of pricing as compared to the market. In place of pricing on the basis of subscribers(has no limit), they charge on the basis of emails sent per month. This makes it difficult to compare to its competitor. However, if you have limited numbers of senders then Mailify will not be pocket friendly.

The lowest plan starts from $69 per month, for which you can send 5000 emails, in case of annual plans extra discount is applicable.

Mailify Pricing Plans are as follows –

• Get 5000 emails per month for $69 
• Get 10000 emails per month for $99 
• Get 25,000 emails per month for $139 
• Get 50,000 emails per month for $179
• Get 100,000 emails per month for $239

Check out Mailify pricing here in detail.

As you move up the hierarchy the pricing starts to get reasonable, By looking at their pricing we can infer that this service is for professionals and agencies.

Mailify Alternatives

Check out the below table to see Mailify alternatives and their price comparison.

Conclusion

Mailify’s brand new, modern web interface with rich features can cater to many marketing needs- reporting, marketing automation, forms, landing pages, and even SMS.

Their beautiful template range is enough to impress users. They offer advanced reporting techniques like reading times and data on devices, which can provide good insights about the user. Easy to use editor makes it stand out.

However, the functionality of automation has limited options. They should work on making segmentation functionality more user friendly. Pricing is little different making it difficult for us to compare with competitors. But in case you’re sending less than 10,000 emails per month, Malify can make a hole in your pocket.

General FAQ

What is Mailify?

Mailify is a French Marketing platform owned by Sarbacane Software Company, It provides services like marketing automation, SMS Marketing, Email Marketing. It has over 180,000 users across the globe. They have a desktop version and a web version of their platform that they have recently launched as Mailify sunrise.

Mailify Pricing?

Mailify does its pricing differently than its counterparts, It charges you according to the number of emails you send per month rather than on the basis of the number of subscribers. The minimum plan starts with just $69 for 5000 emails. You can check out the Mailify pricing here

Is Mailify Free?

Mailify gives you a trial plan but after that for email marketing, you will be charged $69 for 5000 emails per month.

In this article, we will discuss SMTP servers in detail and find out about some of the best free SMTP server providers. There are many free email services providers also known as esp email providers available through which you can send emails without any SMTP server but these are not the optimum way and sometimes show lag time. Let’s dive in and start with understanding what is SMTP server? and then we will move on to the list of email providers.

In this article, we will look at some of the most popular SMTP server providers and how to use them conveniently –

1. What is an SMTP server?
2. SMTP Servers and WordPress
3. Free SMTP servers list
4. Free Email Providers list
5. Price Comparison of Free SMTP Servers

What is an SMTP server?

We know that the technical stuff can be a bit intimidating, let’s start with understanding the basics of SMTP, it stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. SMTP server acts as a postman and helps you deliver bulk emails. When you send an email the mail goes to an SMTP server (A computer running SMTP) and through an organized system, it is sent to the respective recipients. You can read in detail about What is SMTP server and How SMTP server Works here?

SMTP Servers and WordPress

You can also use these servers to send emails via your WordPress site as well. WordPress sites let’s you send transactional emails which are automated emails like the password reset’s,  welcome emails etc. Your WordPress generally uses a PHP mail and it can cause a lot of trouble in sending your emails like the deliverability issue or your emails landing up in spam or promotional folders which are never read and get’s wasted you can end up loosing huge sales.

SMTP Servers are dedicated servers which are more reliable and secure than conventional PHP emails. Some of the providers that we will discuss below have their own plugins that can be used for integration smoothly. You can check out many SMTP WordPress Plugins here !

We will cover a brief about the email provider followed by the tutorial how to use them if a dedicated plugin is available.

 Let’s look at some best free SMTP server providers for sending free emails and the best tools for ESP marketing. 

Best Free SMTP servers list or list of Free email providers list –

1. SendinBlue – 9000 Free Emails Per Month Forever (Recommended)
2. Constant Contact – Most Popular Email Service (Recommended)
3. Elastic Email – $10 | UNLIMITED EMAILS for 10,000 Contacts
4. Mailjet – 30,000 Emails Per Month | $9.65
5. PepiPost – New Entrant
6. GetResponse – Good UI & Templates
7. Moosend – Fairly Good
8. Gmail SMTP -Forever Gem
9. MailGun – Transactional Email API
10. SendGrid – Good Email Delivery

1. SendinBlue

Sendinblue is the obvious first choice for sending free emails using free email services and it is one of the best free SMTP server providers. It is very simple to use and you can also create beautiful emails with its simple drag and drop feature.   

• Sendinblue Pricing
• Sendinblue Features
• How to use SendinBlue Plugin in WordPress to send free emails
• SendinBlue Alternatives
• Detailed Sendinblue Review By FreeSMTPServers.com
• Why SendinBlue is a better Mailchimp alternative? SendinBlue Vs Mailchimp

You can design your own email template or choose from an existing one, You can personalize the content, like dynamically adding the name of your contact. With Sendinblue you can create unlimited lists and groups for sending emails for better conversions. 

You can even choose narrow segments efficiently like on the basis of purchase history, gender, etc. It also lets you take an A/B test for finding the winning email copy so that you have the best conversion rate. You can Sign up here 

SendinBlue Pricing

SendinBlue allows you to send 9000 free emails per month which are restricted to 300 free emails per day to unlimited contacts. They have different plans like LITe, Essential, Premium and Enterprise you can choose them according to your needs. Read details about Sendinblue pricing HERE.

SendinBlue Features

SendinBlue comes loaded with some of the most spectacular features in the free SMTP email servers providers list. 

Let’s dive in and explore some of the features offered by Sendinblue- 

1. It lets you create personalized professional-looking emails with its email drag and drop editor, you can perform A/B testing to choose the best email copy and automate sending your emails at the perfect timing. We hope that we got you excited! SIGN UP FOR FREE to send free 1000 mails daily. 
2. They offer a very simple to use CRM where you can easily import all your contacts data and even make notes regarding your previous call or meeting.
3. Create different lists on the basis of similar characteristics like the source of acquisition etc. Read more about their CRM features here
   
4. You can send transactional emails for free using Sendinblue, it can be easily set up using API, eCommerce Plugins, SMTP relay. Personalize your content to send dynamic emails and personalize parameters like contact information, order number, etc.

SendinBlue can easily integrate via API and WordPress and you can read all about integrations here

You can read our detailed SendinBlue Review here

How to use SendinBlue Plugin in WordPress to send free emails

• Sign Up and create an account
• Click on the right top corner where you see your username once you click on that a drop down will appear click on SMTP & API. If you are logged in you can click on this link.
• Then on the right top corner click on CREATE AN NEW API KEY You have to choose the 2.0 to generate the Plugin API key and then click on Generate.

• Then install the SendinBlue WordPress Plugin and activate. In the left hand tab you must see a separate sendinblue tab. Enter your API key (Please note you have to enter the Plugin key)  that you generated in the last step and click on login.

• Now you should be able to see a your sendinblue’s complete plugin settings.
• In your SendinBlue Plugins setting area in the lower side you will be able to see an heading as transactional emails click on Yes tab and enter the sender email you wan’t to use Like contact@freesmtpservers.com etc.
• Send a test email and Now you are good to go, now you can send transactional emails using sendinblue SMTP. Then, you can select your sender information (you can control this from your Sendinblue dashboard) and send a test email

Read our article on the best time to send your email blast, Where we have data collected from more than 10 email marketing services and analysed more than 20 million reciepients so that you can increase your conversions exponentially

2. Constant Contact

Constant Contact is one of the oldest companies in Email marketing founded in 1996 they are one of the best SMTP servers out there. It is also one of the biggest email marketing companies. They have a very decent and simple website.

• Constant Contact Pricing
• Constant Contact Features

Constant Contact Pricing

With Constant Contact, you can send free emails to unlimited subscribers. There plan starts with just $20 for one month, in which you get to send unlimited emails to 500 subscribers. You pay as you grow. If you go for their bulk prepaid plans like the 6 or 12-month prepaid plan, you can save up to 30% of the cost. Learn more about Constant contact plans here.

According to me if you are a growing business and yet have just a small subscriber base there basic plan will be the best suited for you as they give you all the advanced features like list segmentation, reporting, automated abandoned cart emails, woo commerce integration, etc.

Check out newsletter examples so that your creativity gets a push that it needs to start designing great newsletters

Constant Contact Features

Constant Contact as I told you above is a very experienced player in the email marketing domain and their features tell you why they have been around for so long. Let’s discuss why they have an upper hand over its rivals –

• It is one of the most efficient best free email services for eCommerce businesses, you can automate great things like resend the email to subscribers who haven’t opened your mail, send them an automated email response to some specified triggers like 10% off coupon for abandoned cart users, etc.

• You can create and send amazing looking emails to create an impact on your customers and increase your brand retention in a blink of an eye. Constant Contact has a very efficient looking email drag and drop editor and you can choose from many pre-designed templates. Sign up to start sending free emails
  

You can read in detail about Constant Contact features here

Read our article A Detailed Guide To Awesome Drip Marketing Campaigns in 2022! to start converting clients using the power of drip campaigns !!

3. Elastic Email

Elastic EMail is another superb example of free SMTP service providers and is in the fourth position in our free SMTP server list. The first thing that impresses us is the simplicity of their website.

Followed by email API for sending effective transactional emails and bulk emails. Read more about what are transactional emails . They provide top-notch infrastructure to their customers at a budget-friendly price. It is one of the best options if you are looking at sending bulk emails for email marketing. It is one of the best SMTP server providers as it offers 3000 free emails online per month limited to 100 emails per day. It is one of the best email providers available online.

Elastic Mail also offers you an additional private IP at a cost of $1 per day.

• Email Email Pricing
• Expandability
• ElasticMail Features
• Elastic Email and WordPress

They are among the cheapest SMTP providers in the market. You can send bulk UNLIMITED Emails up to 10,000 contacts just for $10 per month. 

I think we got you too excited there, let’s move on to their pricing in detail.

Elastic Email Pricing

It is a top free SMTP relay servers, For Email Marketers that are looking at sending bulk mails, the pricing starts for just $10 per month for sending unlimited emails to 10,000 contacts. You need to chug $25 if you want to send unlimited free emails online to 20,000 contacts and $45 to send it to 30,000 contacts. You can read all about their plans for sending bulk mails here

Elastic Email lets you send effective transactional emails through elastic mail API integration. You pay as you go for SMTP, pricing starts with just $0.09 for 1000 emails. For the Email API pro plan of Elastic mail, you have to pay $0.10 for 1000 emails which come with a huge amount of features. Check out their plans for API and transactional emails here.

Expandability

You can easily scale your business through email marketing in a very cost-efficient manner through elastic mail. You can send unlimited bulk emails to 1,000,000 contacts for just $1000 per month. It can easily be integrated using the WordPress plugin too. Read about it here in detail. It is among the top best email providers available in the world for sure.

Elastic Email Features

Let’s discuss the top features offered by Elastic Mail.

1. It empowers you with very powerful tools to help you stay connected to your contacts. Design emails, create campaigns and set autoresponders. For those who don’t know how to use autoresponders and what are they? Read in detail about the feature here
2. The top feature of Elastic mail is its pricing and its offering of 3000 free emails per month limited to 100 emails per day. Check out their pricing here
3. Automate your emails for building long-lasting relationships and sending customized emails. Try Now
4. Easily integrate your WordPress website using plugin

Elastic Email and WordPress

You can easily use Elastic Email to send transactional emails in your WordPress site, Let’s check out how –

1. Sign-Up and create an account
2. Once you have activated your account by authenticating your email address. Click on the user name on the right top corner and click on settings.
3. Then choose the API tab as shown in the image below. You need to create an API for your elastic email account. Click on Create API key button
4.  Name your API key and Fill the permissions as shown below and then click on create button on the right top corner. Don’t close the window which appears now!!
5. Once you click on the create button, you will be shown the API key once, don’t close the window as you will need it to access your API key to activate your plugin. And they will not show the key again !!
6. Install the elastic email sender wordpress plugin on your website. Once you activate the plugin, click on the elastic email sender tab from your wordpress dashboard.
7. Now you will see the general settings, choose the settings as shown below.

• Select Mailer – Send all WordPress emails via Elastic Email API
• Elastic Email API Key – Add your key that you generated in the last step
• Email type – Transactional
• From Name – Enter the email name you want to appear
• Email From – Email Id you want to use to send your emails

When you click on Save changes you should be able to see a success message, now you are all set to use elastic email as your default transactional sender for your WordPress emails. You can now click on the elastic email-sender tab from your WordPress dashboard and try sending a test mail to check if everything is in place.

Check out our guide about welcome email templates & How to design professional looking email here. How to integrate them in your email strategy with our blog on email marketing strategies.

4. Mailjet

Mailjet is a well heard name in email marketing. They have very good UI and UX for email marketing along with Email API for Developers. Mailjet comes loaded with marketing automation and a very friendly UI. Check it out yourself!

• Mailjet Pricing
• Mailjet Features
• Using Mailijet SMTP to send free WordPress transactional emails

Mailjet Pricing

Mailjet offers you a free plan in which you can send 6000 free emails per month which are limited to 200 emails per month. The real treasure is that you can send 30,000 emails per month for just $9.65 with no daily sending limit, no mailjet logo and Online customer support.

As you move up the hierarchy and start sending more emails the service becomes more and more affordable. We recommend choosing Mailjet if you have to send bulk emails.

I hope you will be fascinated by what their plans have in place for you. Check it out here!

Mailjet Features

Let’s look at some of the Mailjet features and you find out why Mailjet is third in our list –

• Mailjet gives you an option to check how your email will look in different platforms like mobile phone, tablet or PC using their email emulator.
• They offer an advanced email builder with fluent drag and drop feature and many free email templates.
  

• They are ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant. They offer high standard and are reliable and secure email sender, All your data is stored under the Frankfurt and Saint-Ghislain (Belgium) data centers on google cloud platform. You can read more about their security features here. Which provides a secure transmission and security. You can read more about the most secure email providers here.
• The flexible platform by mailjet makes it easy for agencies to run email campaigns for their clients, , sub-account management with an intuitive email builder, and  they also have a dedicated Technical Account Managers Team. Read more about their agency solutions here. They also provide white lable solutions as well.

• Analyse your campaigns and optimise them to increase your conversions every time to send an email campaign your dashboard becomes smarter. Easily track clicks, reach and check for open rates etc in your dashboard. Check out some of the Mailjet’s advanced features here.

Using Mailjet SMTP to send free WordPress transactional emails

• Sign up and create a free mailjet account 
• Once you have signed up. In your account in the transactional email tab click on the overview button. On the top of your dashboard.
• Find your API Keys, In the right down you can choose Configuration options to add and authenticate your sender domains and addresses. It will increase your deliverability.

• Download and activate the mailjet’s wordpress plugin
• Once you have activated your plugin you will see a separate Mailjet option in your WordPress dashboard, and enter the API keys (the once you found when you signed up)
• Once you have activated your mailjet plugin through API key’s click on sending settings Sync your wordpress users with Mailjet. If you only want to use Mailjet for transactional emails, you can just click the button to Skip this step.
• Then in the Mailjet plugin’s dashboard, Choose enable sending email through Mailjet. Enter your sender information and send a test mail.

Check our why sometime your emails get bounce back can entering emails in CAPS be the reason with our guide are email addresses case sensitive

5. Pepipost

Pepipost is one of the most reliable free SMTP server providers out there. It is number 2 in our list of free SMTP server providers. It is an email automation based SMTP Email delivery service. Read how to increase your sales using email automation in our blog. Pepipost brags of sending 8 billion emails per month with over 50,000 customers. It has real fast deliveries due to its servers distributed all around the globe for the optimum experience.

• Pepipost Pricing
• Pepipost Expandability
• Pepipost Features
• Pepipost SMTP for your WordPress Emails

Pepipost Pricing

Pepipost provides you with 30,000 free emails using free email services when you sign up valid till 30 days. Then you get 100 free mails per day. Their basic plan starts with just $25 per month and lets you send 150,000 free mails if you pay annually the plan will cost you $17.5 and you can save 30% the cost. Afterwards, you will be charged just $0.60 for extra 1000 emails. Learn more about their plans here  

Expandability

With Pepipost you can send 2,000,000 emails for just $311.5 if you pay annually and then you will be charged just $0.40 for every extra 1000 emails sent. They have one of the most competitive pricing in this segment. If you have the requirement to send even more emails than the mentioned plans you can get a customized plan by contacting Pepipost.

Pepipost Features

Pepipost has really up the game as far as the delivery time is concerned. Due to their well-distributed data centres across the globe. They have set a benchmark that is hard to beat even by the already established players. You can sign up here

So let’s move forward and discuss what Pepipost has to offer – 

1. Pepipost is an SMTP relay service by which you can send best free emails, it is very easy to use all you need to do is to change your configuration to point to Pepipost’s SMTP server and add your bona fides. Check our Pepipost SMTP feature HERE.
2. Track your SMTP and backup is stored for 90 days. They support custom metadata which is linked to mailing that you send and later can be accessed.
3. You can easily send your transactional emails using Pepipost API’s which are easy to set up, you can use it to integrate with frameworks like Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, JAVA, C# and Ruby. 
4. Pepipost supports open source email marketing software like Mautic, Mailtrain
5. You can send transactional customized emails like Signup Confirmations, Password Reset links, Order Receipts etc with ease and at a very great pace

You can sign up here or check out their plans and features here

Pepipost SMTP for your WordPress Emails

You can use Pepipost to send your WordPress Transactional emails. Let’s look at how to do it in a jiffy –

• Signup, create a free pepipost account
• Now add your WordPress site’s URL, in the Add sending domain section

• Now you will be prompted to add two TXT records to your DNS records to authenticate your domain name. You can click on visual tour button to help you sail through.

• Once you’ve authenticated your domain name, go to Settings → Integrations in your Pepipost dashboard to find your API key. Keep this value handy because you’ll need it in the next step:
• Download the pepipost plugin, click on Pepipost tab in your WordPress dashboard and add your API key. Also fill in the other information asked. Once the changes are done, you can try sending a test email.

Read our article on Can-Spam and get the answers to questions like why there is a unsubscribe button in each email you receive and save yourself from the legal hassles and penalties

6.GetResponse 

GetResponse is also one of the most well-known SMTP server providers in the industry. GetResponse provides you with powerful email marketing with amazing email templates and unbelievable delivery rates. You can design professional-looking emails using a variety of email templates present or design your own.

• GetResponse Pricing
• Expandability
• GetResponse Features

GetResponse Pricing

You get a 30-day trial in which you can add 1000 contacts and send emails. You can also conduct webinars of up to 10 people free of cost. At Getresponse can also try their landing pages but for trial accounts, it is limited to just 1000 visitors after that you will have to upgrade to the paid version. It is a really good free SMTP relay server.

GetResponse Pricing starts with just $10.50 for a list size of 1000 for the basic plan if you pay for 24 months and if you take a monthly plan you will have to pay $15 monthly. You can check out GetResponse pricing here

Expandability

You can go for their enterprise plan that lets you send emails to a list size of 100,000 customers. You get a dedicated account manager and you can ask for custom pricing as well. With the enterprise plan, you can conduct Webinars of 500 attendees. It is one of the best free email senders online. Getresponse is famous for sending free esp mail & esp marketing.

GetResponse Features

1. Send professional autoresponders, send follow up emails easily
2. Their biggest strength lies in sending automated transactional emails like after purchases, abandoned carts etc
3. Get high engagement and conversion rates through highly-targeted recipient groups

Check out all about GetResponse Email Marketing here.

Joke of The Blog

I hope you guys are having a great time learning about different free SMTP server providers. So just to keep you away from all the boredom here is a joke for you –

I like inventing new things, so I invented a new word !

Any Guesses?

“Plagiarism”

Before killing me please complete the remaining article.

7. Moosend

The next contender is the moosend free SMTP server. You can send free unlimited emails to 1,000 subscribers. It has a very unique website concentrating on Agencies, eCommerce, Saas software, Publishes, etc each in a very innovative manner. Moosend has something to offer for everyone.

• Moosend Pricing
• Moosend Expandability 
• Moosend Features

Moosend Pricing

Send Unlimited free emails to 1000 subscribers. It is one of the best SMTP servers. For an annual plan if you want to send mail to 1000-2000 subscribers you need to chug $8 per month. If you want to send unlimited emails to 2001-3000 subscribers you have to pay $16 if you pay annually. 

You can also opt for pay as you go plans as well you get 350,000 emails for $350 which amounts to $0.001 per email. You can check out pay as you go plans here.

Expandability

You can send unlimited free emails to 800,001 – 1,000,000 subscribers for just $2,920 per month if you pay annually. If you want to scale up using pay as you go plans then you can send 1,000,000 at a cost of $1000 at $0.001 per mail. It sure can be counted as best email provider online.

Moosend Features

Moosend offers all the modern features required to create awesome conversions. Let’s look at moosend free SMTP server. Let’s look at all the important features offered by moosend for free emails- 

1. For the free plan, it offers Drag & Drop features, Email Marketing automation, advanced segmentation, real-time analysis and 3rd party integrations.
2. For paid plans you get SMTP server, Landing pages, dedicated IP’s. Read all about their features here. Check out the image below for better understanding.

8. Gmail SMTP

Gmail SMTP service lets you send free emails and is one of the best and cheapest free SMTP servers out there. Anyone who has a google account can send free emails. You can use it to send free personal mails or you can connect it to your website and send mails like contact forms, newsletter updates, latest news and blogs to your subscriber list. It is one of the top email providers online for sure.

They are the most authentic source of sending free mails. Since a lot of people use Gmail, people are familiar with Google and we all know its authenticity. The mails usually sent from Gmail SMTP are not sent in the spam folder. You can choose google SMTP the best email provider. 

Gmail SMTP Pricing

You can send 500 emails daily for absolutely free of cost from the trial plan valid for 14 days then you need to update to paid plans. The paid plans start with just $6. It is the most reliable free email service. You can check out google’s documentation here Check out their plans in detail here.

Expandability

You can opt for an Enterprise plan for $25 per month and avail all the advanced g suite features. The business plan starts with just $12 per month. And for the basic plan, you need to spend around $6 per month. It is surely the best free SMTP server out there. It is the best esp email provider and a good tool for esp marketing. 

Features

1. As the Free Gmail SMTP is backed by google you get instant access to all google drive features 
2. You get access to all the premium offerings by google like the Google sheets, Google Forms etc
3. With google comes, the data security and you can manage users effectively and efficiently

9. Mailgun

MailGun is a free SMTP relay service provider by Rackspace, the majority of its customer base is developers. It is a cloud-based free SMTP server provider and is in 6th place on our free SMTP server list. It provides one of the most efficient API’s for sending free emails. 

Mailgun Pricing

It provides you with 5,000 free emails per month for 3 months then you need to upgrade your plan. You can send 50,000 emails for $35 per month. Check out the pricing in detail here

Expandability

You can send 100,000 mails just for $90 with the scale plan of mailgun the most popular email providers. You can also ask for customized plans if your requirements are more than the offerings. It offers best plans for esp marketing.

Features

Mailgun the best free SMTP relay offers the best email provider for automation and deliverability. Let’s look at the features in detail –

1. Allows you to send mail at the optimum time so that you increase your conversions they offer one of the best email automation services
2. MailGun provides one of the top email analytics in the industry which can be used to increase the email marketing performance. Also, you can easily integrate it using wordpress plugin
3. Email logs are maintained for 30 days. You can retrieve the mails even if you have deleted them by mistake

10. SendGrid

SendGrid is a cloud-based free bulk email sending software. It is a very good free SMTP server & esp email that lets you send and track emails intelligently. It is famous for sending transactional emails. Send Email newsletters, Password resets, Promotional emails etc with ease. Microsoft azure SendGrid can be easily integrated too. It is also a very good option of free email service.

SendGrid can also be used with WordPress to send transactional email’s the process is simple you need to sign up, generate an API key and then download the wordpress plugin and it up. It is quite similar to all the other methods you have read above.

SendGrid Pricing

SendGrid offers 40,000 free emails for 30 days after that you get 100 free emails per day forever. The email API plan’s as shown below offers 4 unique plans. Read more about the plans here. The pricing makes it one of the best email providers in the free SMTP servers category.

For marketers, you can send 6000 emails and store 2000 contacts absolutely free of cost. After then you get to choose among the Basic or Advanced plan according to your requirements.

Expandability

For marketing campaigns, you can send 950,000 emails per month to 190,000 contacts for $900 per month. For custom SMTP relay services you can always contact the SendGrid team and ask for customized pricing.

Features

1. Sendgrid offers two-factor authentication feature when you send emails
2. It also provides you with an ROI calculator according to the industry you are in
3. SendGrid has clients like Uber, Airbnb, etc so you know your emails are in safe hands as it is trusted by big brands.
4. It has over 80,000 paying customers, a lot of knowledge is acquired with experience and authenticity comes with world-class infrastructure.
5. Send grid can also be integrated with Microsoft azure. Read can read all about azure Sendgrid
6. It can easily be integrated with WordPress through the SendGrid plugin.

Price Comparison of Free SMTP Servers

General FAQ Questions – 

What is the best free SMTP server?

There are several best free SMTP servers in the market but according to our experience you should go with Sendinblue SMTP relay service. You can send 9000 free emails every month which are confined to 300 emails per day. 

How to get a free SMTP server?

Just sign up with one of the free smtp service providers and get to send free emails. Our best choice is SendinBlue and Pepipost

How do I find out what my SMTP server is?

You usually see the SMTP servers using web addresses like “smtp.servername.com“. To send Free mails you need to configure the your Emails with SMTP server web address. You must know the SMTP server to retrieve the SMTP server IP address or you can do that using the steps shown below-

• Click on the “Start” menu and type “Run” press enter then type “cmd” without the quotes and press enter 
• It will open in a new window.
• You need to type the word “ping” followed by space and then smtp server name. 

Like “ping mail.servername.com” and press the enter key. This command contacts the SMTP server through IP address. 

How to create a SMTP server?

SMTP servers can be set up using different ways, you need to contact your free SMTP server providers for precise information.

 In the past, Mails or Letters were the only means of communication for remotely located areas in which if a person wants to communicate to another person who lives in another city, he has to send a mail or letter through a Post office which was set up in every city. The postman is the carrier who receives a mail and drops it to its destination which is quite a time taking process.

Email is a very important and most economical way of promoting your products or services.

Even the Morpheus Agrees !!

Thanks to the Advancement in Technology this whole Process has become digital and Fast. The whole Concept of Mailing now has Converted into a Digital system with the help of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Server or SMTP servers. Learn about what is SMTP and how SMTP server works.

You do not need to worry about it, you will get all your Answers regarding SMTP servers in this Article. So Keep reading patiently. We will cover the following topics in this article –

1. What is SMTP?
2. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol In detail
3.  What Is an SMTP server?
4. Types of SMTP servers
5. Why do we Use SMTP servers?
6. Best SMTP Servers to send FREE EMAILS?
7. How does SMTP server work?
8. Send mails using SMTP servers
9. What is incoming mail servers or POP3?
10. What is my SMTP Server Address?
11. Advantages of using an SMTP server?

What is SMTP or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol?

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol or SMTP is a protocol just like your Internet Protocol (IP Address).  It is a part of the application layer of the TCP/IP protocol. SMTP works on the concept of “store and forward” just like a CDN. It works with your MTA or Mail Transfer Agent to send your communication to the desired computer or recipient. MTA is basically an SMTP Server. Click here to find out what is an SMTP Server?

SMTP basically controls how the email that you send move from your MTA to another MTA. The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol provides you with a set of code that makes it easy to communicate emails among the email servers (just like your web servers). SMTP helps break down the message into different parts that only the email servers can understand.

Fun Fact – SMTP is able to trasfer only text, it can’t handel fonts, graphics, attachments etc. That’s why you call it SIMPLE mail trasfer protocop

You use MIME or Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions to send non-text content like multimedia. In the transformed format, SMTP is cajoled into transferring the data.

The message is turned into small fringes of text. Which can be identified by the servers. SMTP provides the codes to servers which then can be decoded. These messages are sometimes passed through many MTA’s or computers. They get briefly stored in their path. You can think of it like a letter going through many hands to reach its destination.

Fun Fact- Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) have a limit of no. of emails you can send out. Usually a particular no. per hour or per day.

Every ISP relies on its SMTP to govern and determine the number of emails that can be sent by each connection. For some of the persons who need to send a huge amount of emails, this can be a hindrance. To avoid this always check your ISP’s policy.

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

This is an advanced level and if you are not an Expert or Professional you can skip this part and move on to What is SMTP Server Part!

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is a protocol for communication of Emails. It was first defined as IS or internet standard in 1982 by RFC 821, then again it was updated in 2008 and it was updated by RFC 5321 to extended SMTP additions which we use even today. As discussed above all the MTA‘s use SMTP. It is also used by Proprietary systems like IBM Notes, Microsoft Exchange and Webmails like the outlook, yahoo and Gmail use non-standard protocols internally, but use SMTP to send and receive emails externally.

SMTP Servers use Port No. 25 with the Transmission Control Protocol

User-level email clients, usually use SMTP only for outgoing messages to a mail server for relaying, and typically submit an outgoing email to the mail server on port 587 or 465 as per RFC 8314. For retrieving messages, IMAP and POP3 are standard, but proprietary servers also often implement proprietary protocols, e.g., Exchange ActiveSync.

What is an SMTP server?

You must be thinking what is SMTP or what is an SMTP server?. An SMTP Protocol or Server Mail Transfer Protocol is a set of rules for Digital Communication i.e Electronic mail transmission and the SMTP servers are the applications whose main function is to send, receive or Switch between outgoing mail senders and receivers. There are a lot of Free SMTP servers available online through which you can send free emails. The best choices are SendinBlue and Constant Contact as they let you send hundreds of free emails to your subscribers.

Types of SMTP servers

1. Normal SMTP servers
2. SMTP proxy servers

Normal Servers

It is an ordinary SMTP server that acknowledges emails and lines, which then the receiver gets. It necessitates that you determine a lot of nearby domains took care of by the server. In the event that any email comes in from an alternate domain and a pass on message is permitted, the message will be conveyed to its destination server. SMTP servers can be used bidirectional bound delivery services. I.e inbound or outbound. Read about how to use the SMTP server in your email marketing strategy to increase your sales.

SMTP Proxy servers

Proxy servers are not Full functional like SMTP servers but it requires an actual SMTP server so that it can connect. Users connect to actual SMTP servers through a proxy server so that they can block unnecessary mails, monitor their emails and even alter their content.

You can read more about email clients

Why do we Use SMTP servers?

Now, you have an idea about SMTP and SMTP servers. Now the main Question arises why and when we Use SMTP servers as there are various Email Service providers available now i.e Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc. Which we use in our day to day mailing and for business purposes. But they have certain limitations that an SMTP server can resolve. SMTP servers can be used to both drip marketing emails and transactional emails.

The main purpose of using SMTP servers instead of Common Email Providers is Scaling. Which is only possible with Dedicated SMTP servers. Let us understand this with an example, You run a business and you need to send multiple emails or bulk mails regarding promotional offers, acknowledge User activity on the website such as password change, forget the password, Sign up process, etc. To handle all these you need a system that can not be done by sending mail from a web interface that is not an option. You can learn all about FREE SMTP servers for sending free emails here

Best SMTP Servers to send FREE EMAILS?

Following are the best SMTP servers out there to send FREE EMAILS-

1. Sendinblue – 9000 free emails every month forever
2. Constant Contact – Most popular email sending service
3. Elastic Email – Unlimited Emails to 10,000 Contacts | $10
4. GetResponse – Smooth UI & UX
5. Aweber – “A” stands for Awesome!!
6. ActiveCampaign – Email Automation

Sendinblue

One of the most renowned names in the email marketing industry is Sendinblue. Sendinblue offers your company a variety of free responsive email templates along with the drag and drops feature enabling users to create their own emails as well. Content can be personalized as well as unlimited lists can be created for better customer relationship. Sendinblue provides 100+ responsive email templates. Check out the Sendinblue pricing analysis by www.freesmtpservers.com!!

You can take a trial at no cost where 300 emails/day can be SEND OUT FREE EMAILS FOREVER!!.

Check out the Sendinblue pricing here.

The different plans offered to the businesses help a small-sized firm to choose the best plan as it fits for themselves without worrying on the cost factor. The site also provides features like marketing automation, transactional emails, contact management, real-time reporting and integration among others. Check out Sendinblue review – The free email-sender in detail.

Read why Sendinblue can be a good alternative to mailchimp with our guide on sendinblue vs mailchimp!!

Transactional emails are the messages or emails which are automatically generated when a specific action has occurred in real-time. They are the triggered emails whose main focus is on the customized information. All the marketing automation, transactional emails and even email autoresponders are known as Drip Marketing campaign which helps in improving the conversions.

What are you waiting for? Read out the features offered by Sendinblue here.

How to use SendinBlue SMTP Plugin to send FREE EMAILS in your WordPress Site?

Using WordPress to send emails is neither safe and is not recommended, as most of your emails land up in either promotional or spam folders leading to loss ho leads and ultimately revenue. Below I have solved this issue in a jiffy as Sendinblue offers 9000 free emails per month you can easily use Sendinblue to send transactional emails for free. Just follow the steps below –

1. Create a free account without giving any financial information.
2. Once you are logged in after confirming your email address, on the right top corner you see your username as depicted in the image below, once you click on it you will see a drop-down menu then click on SMTP & API. Or the other way, if you are logged in you, can click on this link.
3. Then on the right top corner click on CREATE AN NEW API KEY You have to choose the 2.0 to generate the Plugin API key and then click on Generate.

1. Then install the SendinBlue WordPress Plugin and activate. In the left-hand tab you must see a separate Sendinblue tab. Enter your API key (Please note you have to enter the Plugin key)  that you generated in the last step and click on login.

1. Now you should be able to see the complete Sendinblue plugin settings.
2. In the SendinBlue Plugins setting area in the lower side, you will be able to see a heading as transactional emails click on Yes tab and enter the sender email you want to use Like contact@freesmtpservers.com etc.
3. Send a test email and Now you are good to go, now you can send transactional emails using Sendinblue SMTP. Then, you can select your sender information (you can control this from your Sendinblue dashboard) and send a test email

Constant Contact

Constant Contact is another email marketing company providing small and medium-sized businesses resources to get connected with the customer base. It is also one of the best SMTP server provider. You now must be wondering what is an SMTP server. SMTP server helps in delivering a large chunk of emails through a dedicated system. To read more about what is SMTP server?

Constant Contact helps the firms in increasing the customer base by providing them with responsive email templates which deliver quality content even on a mobile phone. The email layout is automatically adjusted on every screen size, hence, displaying the email/newsletter in an attractive way.  Constant Contact provides a number of features to its subscribers such as email marketing, marketing automation, transactional email among others. Look out for more features here.

The firm provides a number of free email templates to its subscribers along with plan starting with $20/mo. Subscribers can save around 30% of the price if they go for a bulk period pricing plan.

Check out detailed plans here.

The above email template is provided by Constant Contact. Companies can modify the content according to their brand and put all the necessary information such as the company’s logo, discount, date, items discounted and many more creative contents. For more such amazing email templates, check out Constant Contact’s website.

Read why some time even big brands attract penalty with our guide to can-spam act of marketing!

Elastic Email

Elastic Email is another email marketing firm which focuses on providing the best technology to small and medium-sized firm helping them to reach excellence through the innovation model. Elastic Email is a dedicated partner which helps the businesses by understanding their business model and proposing customized marketing plans. You can check out Elastic Email’s price plans.

Start with a free trial by clicking here.

Elastic Email offers various email templates to the subscribers along with amazing features such as designing an email marketing strategy, CRM, email automation, AI and transactional automation. You can read about the steps to awesome email marketing strategy for better customer relationship which ultimately leads to improving sales and profits. Elastic Email offers some of the best email templates to the businesses for creating a memorable and expressive email.

How to use Elastic Email to send unlimited emails to 10,000 subscribers for just $10 through your WordPress site using elastic email plugin

You can easily use Elastic Email to send transactional emails in your WordPress site, Let’s check out how –

1. The primary step is you Sign-Up and create a free account
2. Once you have activated your account by authenticating your email address. Click on the user name on the right top corner and click on settings.
3. Then choose the API tab as shown in the image below. You need to create an API for your elastic email account. Click on Create API key button

1.  Name your API key and Fill the permissions as shown below and then click on create a button on the right top corner. Don’t close the window which appears now!!
   
2. Once you click on the create button, you will be shown the API key once, don’t close the window as you will need it to access your API key to activate your plugin. And they will not show the key again !!
3. Install the elastic email-sender WordPress plugin on your website. Once you activate the plugin, click on the elastic email-sender tab from your WordPress dashboard.
4. Now you will see the general settings, choose the settings as shown below.

• Select Mailer – Send all WordPress emails via Elastic Email API
• Elastic Email API Key – Add your key that you generated in the last step
• Email type – Transactional
• From Name – Enter the email name you want to appear
• Email From – Email Id you want to use to send your emails

When you click on Save changes you should be able to see a success message, now you are all set to use elastic email as your default transactional sender for your WordPress emails. You can now click on the elastic email-sender tab from your WordPress dashboard and try sending a test mail to check if everything is in place.

Read why sometimes your emails bounces off, can the email you entered in CAPS be the reason, read our guide to are email addresses case sensitive to find out your answer!!

GetResponse

GetResponse company aims for providing attractive looking emails driven by powerful information. The pricing plan of GetResponse starts with just $15 which goes down to $10.50 if the subscriber chooses a yearly plan.

Look for detailed GetResponse pricing plans here.

The email templates provided by GetResponse gives the users a memorable experience and makes them feel important. You can choose among the pool of email templates provided by the company and look for the best template which suits your business image. The email automation feature of GetResponse enables emails to be sent to the subscribers for any signup, or purchases made. Read in detail what is email automation?

Read our article on the best free email services in 2022

Aweber

Aweber motivates the business to achieve their aim of converting prospective customers into actual ones by providing them with resources. Aweber offers a number of free email templates in which the already existing information can be converted into appealing content which goes with the brand image.

We all know an attractive email entice customers to take a step forward and captures their attention. The billing options provided by Aweber caters 500 subscribers at a cost of $19 per month. Isn’t it a great deal? Look out for price ranges of Aweber.

The above email templates are provided by Aweber in which content can be modified to deliver an impactful message. The email templates/newsletter vary from event announcement to sale and eCommerce announcement to basic email template. Look out for more best email newsletter examples here. The company offers its customers attractive landing pages. dashboards, timely reports along with timely delivery of email. For more features, click here.

Read our analysis on when is the best time to send your email campaigns, where we have analysed more than 20 million email subscrivers and their email opening habits so that you get the best conversions

ActiveCampaign

ActiveCampaign is another email marketing firm which focuses on growing businesses by building strong relationships with customers. The business model of ActiveCampaign believes in technology that works for businesses/individuals and not the technology which you need to figure out. The plans offered by ActiveCampaign varies from $9/mo to $229/mo when paid yearly.

Check out the detailed pricing plans of ActiveCampaign Here.

ActiveCampaign offers various email templates to businesses to choose the best one which fits their brand image and reputation. Along with it, the company offers triggered emails, email autoresponders, email funnels for email marketing, marketing automation, CRM as well as machine learning among others. Autoresponder is an automatic response which occurs after a specified trigger takes place. Read more about what is an autoresponder.

Welcome emails, order confirmations, abandoned carts emails are some of the best examples of autoresponders.

How does SMTP server work?

 SMTP server Works Exactly on the principle of our typical Mailing system. It collects the sender’s email and delivers it to the recipient’s local post office, which is another SMTP server.

Before proceeding further, let us understand it with a physical mail, suppose there is a sender who lives in Mumbai, and he/she wants to send a mail to a receiver who lives in Delhi. Primarily the mail will be sent to Mumbai’s post office which will act as a sender’s mail server then the mail is being sent to Delhi’s post office which will act as receiver’s mail server and after that, it reaches the receiver. 

Similarly, When a sender tries to send mail for example through Gmail to yahoo mail, To complete this process SMTP’s main work is to transfer the mail from the sender’s mail server to the receiver’s mail server. In the end, POP/IMAP is another Receiver server that is responsible for receiving mails and sending it to the receiver end. 

You send an email with your PC email client or through the web from your own email address to a particular contact.

The message is commonly sent utilizing port 25 to an SMTP server which is designed in your mail customer.

The client and the server start a concise “discussion” where the server confirms all the data with respect to the transmission of the message such as sender, beneficiaries, domains, and so forth. Note that the SMTP language characterizes just the transmission of the message, and doesn’t watch the content of the message body.  

At that point, if space to which the beneficiary has a place has its record legitimately associated with the server, the email is conveyed right away. Something else, the SMTP server conveys the message to another server closer to the beneficiary. In our message, the webserver interfaces with the Domain server, if everything is right then it receives the email and stores it. 

What occurs if the beneficiary’s server is down or occupied? The SMTP server just conveys the message to a backup server: if none is accessible, the email is lined and the conveyance is retried intermittently. After a specific period, if the conveyance isn’t effective, the message is returned as undeliverable. Read about email automation to increase your sales – the complete guide 2022 

On the off chance that there are no issues, the last fragment is constrained by POP, another convention that gathers email from the receiving server and spots it in the beneficiary’s inbox. We hope we have cleared all your doubts about what is an SMTP or what is an SMTP server? Let’s dive in to learn some more about SMTP servers.

While Sending the Mail, SMTP is used two times-

1. Between the sender and the sender’s mail server
2. Between the sender’s mail server and the receiver’s mail server.

Send mails using SMTP servers

After discussing what SMTP and SMTP servers. Now here comes the main part i.e how to implement it. you have two options either you can set up your own SMTP server or connect it with your SMTP server providers such as Gmail, Yahoo, etc. Send Unlimited FREE emails using free SMTP service providers. You can check how many free emails does the different free SMTP providers give here

Most of the users feel that SMTP servers require a lot of expense while setting up. Be that as it may, on second thought, it truly doesn’t. Since each of the SMTP servers has limitations on them to serve mails on different ISPs.

Regardless of whether you do the coding that helps you to scale and send a large number of emails, in some cases Internet service providers(ISPs) Block the emails and treat them as Spam because a single user has sent emails in bulk from the same IP at the same time. Then again, in the event that you decide on a decent Email Service Provider (ESP), you can send billions of emails, get email conveyance aptitude and assemble high IP notoriety. Picking the correct ESP is exceptionally basic. While sending emails in mass, it’s great to quantify the presence of your emails since this will help assemble the notoriety of your sender area. 

Pro Tip  – Before you decide sending emails get an overview about can spam act, to avoide any kind of penalties & trouble

Subsequently, rather than taking care of the framework yourself, you can decide on a decent ESP. It can help you with following all client exercises like email opens, clicks, ricochets, spam grievances, and some other significant action. We recommend SendinBlue SMTP server for sending free Emails as they have the best deliverability and their servers are distributed all around the world.

You’ll discover this blog helpful on the off chance that you need to send emails with PHP from an SMTP server.

What is incoming mail servers or POP3?

When you access your emails through the POP3 protocol, all emails are being allowed to be downloaded on your computer so that you can see them later whether there is internet connectivity available or not.

When you download your emails, your email service provider will delete your mails from the remote server. 

POP3 is recommended when you are facing slow internet connections, to make email backups when there is nonavailability of internet, cyber-attacks and email boxes with low or full capacity. Do we hope by now you are familiar with what is SMTP protocol?

Read more about how to find incoming mail servers here

What is my SMTP Server Address?

To determine your SMTP server and its parameters you have seen most server names are written in the form SMTP.domain.com” which is not sufficient to determine your SMTP server.

And if you are intended to send mails, you need to configure your mail program using the SMTP server IP address. To determine the SMTP server IP address follow the steps given below.

1. Open your command prompt by clicking on the Start menu and type RUN(press enter after that).
2. When cmd window opens you need to type “ping SMTP server name” for example “ping mail.gmail.com” and after that hit “enter”. The following command will try to communicate your SMTP server through IP Address.

If you did not find the SMTP server address you can read more about your SMTP server address here

Outlook SMTP Server Address

1. If you are using outlook express you can Click on “Tools,” and then “Accounts,” then go to  “Mail”.
2. Then select the “Default” account, and click on  “Properties” from the menu.
3. Choose the “Server” tab and choose “Outgoing Mail.” This will be your SMTP Server Address.

Yahoo SMTP Server Address

• Server Address: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
• Port Number: 465 (With SSL)
• Username: Your Yahoo Address (e.g. example@yahoo.com)
• Password: Your Yahoo Password
• Authentication: Required
• Alternative Port Number: 587 (With TLS)
• Sending Limits: 500 Emails a day or Emails to 100 connections a day.

Gmail SMTP Server Address

• Gmail SMTP server address: smtp.gmail.com
• Gmail SMTP port: 587 (With TLS)
• Gmail SMTP username: Your Gmail address (for example, example@gmail.com)
• Gmail SMTP password: Your Gmail password
• Gmail SMTP port: 465 (With SSL)
• Gmail SMTP TLS/SSL required: Yes

Office 365 SMTP Server Settings and Address

•  Go to your Outlook Web App click on Settings and search for “POP and IMAP”
• On the My Account page: Go to Settings for POP or IMAP access. Server name: outlook.office365.com

POP settings Office 365

• Port: 995
• Encryption method: SSL
• Server name: outlook.office365.com

IMAP settings Office 365

• Port: 993
• Encryption method: SSL
• Server name: outlook.office365.com

SMTP settings Office 365

• Port: 587
• Encryption method: TLS or STARTTLS

What are the advantages of using an SMTP server?

Generally, when you purchase a web hosting service, they provide you inbuilt the SMTP server so that you can create SMTP email accounts that are connected with your Web hosting service.

Although your web hosting service provider provides you inbuilt SMTP server with cheap rates, it is advisable for you to use external SMTP servers. Because the Inbuilt SMTP servers have limitations and poor performance. 

Limited mail speed: Sending and Receiving emails would be slow if you are on Shared web hosting.

Vulnerable to hack: The SMTP protocols are liable to be hacked and the inbuilt SMTP servers are lacking with it or because the cheap web hosting services usually have cheap security measures. By now you must be able to answer what is SMTP protocol?

By using external SMTP servers you will get,

Better Speed: an External SMTP server will increase the whole process of sending and receiving mails as compared with the inbuilt one.

Better deliverability: With the help of External or dedicated SMTP servers your mail is secured and guaranteed to be delivered.

You can likewise hire a Free SMTP server like Amazon SES, which you can configure rapidly and effectively, and will likewise offer you the chance of sending emails naturally and characterizing your emails by classifications. You will similarly get a detailed report each month with subtleties on the lows, highs and other significant information that might be valuable to you. I hope we answered all your questions regarding what is SMTP?

Frequently Asked Questions

How Does SMTP Work?

SMTP is a set of rules which is used for bulk email Transmissions. To make this possible we use SMTP servers, which is responsible for transmitting email from sender to receiver. Let us

Understand this with a physical example. Suppose you live in a city A and your friend lives in City B. You want to send a letter to your friend who lives in city B. what will you do first?

You will write a letter and send it to your nearby post office( Sender Server) From which it will transfer to its destination, i.e Receiver’s post office ( Receiver Server). Now Through Receiver’s post office, it reaches B. This is how SMTP server works. But one thing you should keep in mind is that SMTP servers are only responsible for sending mails. And to receive emails POP3 is used.

What Does SMTP mean?

SMTP or Sender’s Mail Transfer Protocol is a set of Rules which is required for email transmission between servers. Most of the email systems which send mails through the Internet follow this protocol. And the mail can be retrieved with the other mail client IMAP or POP. This is why you need to specify IMAP/POP and SMTP in your email application.

What is the SMTP Protocol?

SMTP(Sender Mail Transfer Protocol) is a set of rules or instructions which are required to be followed by email applications to communicate or transfer mails via the Internet. IT is somewhat similar to any physical example like post offices. In which they all follow the set of rules/instructions like, dispatching mail from sender to receiver. Without any specific Rule of a set of instructions, there is a possibility of Data/information loss, that cannot be retrieved once Lost.

What is an SMTP address?

Much the same as everything else on the web that required to communicate with anything else. The address is utilized to send your mail message to the correct device or destination, through the right communication channel. Similarly, SMTP servers have also Address which is set by email applications or clients. It is generally found in the format “smtp.serveraddress.com”. To understand this clearly, let us take an example of Gmail or Google Mail which is generally in the format as “smtp.gmail.com”. 

How do I find out what my SMTP server is?

1. Just Open your command prompt by clicking on the Start menu and type RUN(press enter after that).
2. When cmd window opens you need to type “ping SMTP server name” for example “ping mail.gmail.com” and after that hit “enter”. The following command will try to communicate your SMTP server through IP Address.