Two settings in your mail program. That is all.
ASMTP is an SMTP relay. Instead of your own provider's outgoing mail server, your mail program hands each message to ours, smtp.asmtp.com, and we deliver it for you.
You sign up and we check you out
Tell us who you are and the email address you will send from. Prove the address is yours (we send you a link to click). Pay by card or PayPal. We look at every new account by hand and normally approve it within a working day.
You change two settings
In Outlook, Apple Mail, your phone, your printer or WordPress, set the outgoing mail server to smtp.asmtp.com and enter the username and password we give you. Our guides show exactly where these settings live.
We send your email
Your message travels to our server over an encrypted connection. We check that it comes from an address you have verified, that it is within your limits, and that it does not look like spam. Then it goes out through Amazon's email delivery service from addresses with a strong reputation, signed so receiving servers can trust it.
You see what happened
Your customer area shows every message we handled: when, from which address, to how many people, and whether it was delivered, bounced or held.
Why the checks?
Email services live and die by the reputation of their sending addresses. If we let a spammer in, everyone's mail suffers. So we check who signs up, we limit how much a new account can send, we hold anything that looks like spam, and we act quickly on complaints. It is a little more effort at sign-up and a lot less trouble afterwards.
One account, one sending address
Each account sends from one email address: the one you verify when you sign up. Nobody else can send as you through ASMTP, and you cannot send as anybody else. A second address needs its own account. To change the address on an account, email us.
Encryption
All connections on ports 587 and 465 are encrypted. Port 2525 is also encrypted where your device supports it. Only our Device plan may connect without encryption, for older printers and scanners that cannot do anything else, and those logins are limited to 20 messages a day for that reason.