DigitalOcean's IP space blocked by Yahoo. Anyone know a good mail provider to send email (Not spam)? ( Cheap but reliable )

Thanks EpicCDN

I have decided to use mandrill and so far VERY pleased!

I managed to get php to also use mandrill by changing how sendmail works by installing msmtp.

Guide for others | centos 7

yum install epel-release
yum install msmtp

Created a new config file for it in /etc/msmtprc With the following info in the file:

account Test
tls on
tls_starttls on
tls_certcheck off
auth on
host smtp.mandrillapp.com
user MYUSERNAME
from noreply@mydomain.com
password MYPASSWORD
logfile /var/log/msmtp/msmtp.log

Then I modified the php.ini file. ( commenting out the old line for sendmail )

;sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
sendmail_path = "/usr/bin/msmtp -C /etc/msmtprc -a Test -t -i"

Restarted apache and POW it works.

I know its blacklisted. Yahoo’s servers come back saying so when my server tries to send. ( Both of my servers are )

Never had the problem on other hosts and these have been denied mail access from the very start, so whoever had the IP’s before were clearly spamming.

I’ve requested that the IP’s be unblocked by as normal yahoo just ignore the requests.

:(

Don’t even waste time using MTA on your servers, use Mandrill (mandrillapp.com) or mailchip (mailchimp.com) depending on your needs, If you know about how to configure your MTA you can set it to use mandrill as smart relay, but that is a little more advance, also you can use php to send using mandrill’s app.

You get up to 12k email at month for free, so don’t worry about investing any money to replace MTA.

Remember to hearth ;-)