On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:11 PM William <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
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> On Saturday, April 25, 2020 at 6:27:21 PM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
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>> Trac server is hosted on Google Compute Engine (or whatever it's
>> called now), which
>> disallows outgoing SMTP.
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>
> True. Docs here: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail
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>> (also, it seems that the IP may change over time).
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>
> Fortunately not true.  I just checked the GCE console, and the ip addresses 
> for our trac and wiki are static, so they do not change over time.   (If it 
> were really changing over time then trac.sagemath.org would periodically 
> completely break until either Harald Schilly or I manually change the DNS 
> configuration, and fortunately I never remember doing that.)
>
> We pay $15/month for a plan that lets trac.sagemath.org's send up to 40K 
> emails (they charge when we go over).  During the last month, trac sent 
> 23,237 emails.     Maybe there is a really good competitor for email today.  
> That page I linked to above says "SendGrid, Mailgun, and Mailjet offer a free 
> tier for Compute Engine customers to set up and send email through their 
> servers."   I have not investigated Mailgun or Mailjet, but would love to 
> hear from Michael Orlitzky if either one of those are a reasonable option.
>

AWS SES is a better option money-wise, see https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/
Also, note that GCE has an option of sending emails via G-suite,
perhaps if someone already has G-suite it might come out better.


Best
Dima

> Thanks,
>
>  William
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