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I was looking at their policies, and I am worried about the "Forbidden Services" where they forbid "Forward-only service for massive numbers of domains on one account." I have 5 domains... Any idea what "massive numbers" means?
Also, can you send to an sms gateway a single email?
Bulk email providers need pretty tight and aggressively worded ToS by necessity because they're a target for spammers & abuse. The owner of mxroute has been around on various forum for years & consistently strikes me as a very reasonable bloke that won't cause you problems if you don't cause him problems.
Maybe I'm imagining this so please don't quote me on this but I vaguely recall hearing them answering a question around what constitutes reasonable in the context of unlimited domains as "if you needed a script/automation to create them then you're probably over the line".
[Note that this is purely my impression as long term customer & I have no special insight/connection to them. Legally they can enforce the ToS]
Thanks. I want a fallback for problematic mail servers (Microsoft) only, and do not want to pay the tool to the people causing the problem. :)