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Smarthost SMTP Relay for hosting-provider with 2000+ domains

MrIver
Hi guys, We are a hosting provider with about 2.000 active clients placed on four different servers. We are looking for a Smarthost SMTP Relay solution where our clients can send out emails through a relay, so that the reputation on the IP on which their websites etc is hosted does not affect the deliverability of their emails. Do you know which solutions would work for hosting businesses like us? What do you use? Our biggest concern is the fact that multiple domains will send out through the SMTP relay, and the question is if it support this? According to this recent post How to Set Up a Smarthost SMTP Relay with cPanel | cPanel Blog setting up a Smarthost SMTP Relay should be fairly straight forward, but we are unsure if any smarthost support our setup. Looking forward to hearing from you.

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  • cPDavidL
    Greetings, @MrIver Yes, there are a multitude of smart hosts out there that support mail sent from cPanel hosting. We have a helpful article here: How to Setup a cPanel & WHM Server as a Smarthost
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  • MrIver
    Hi David, Thanks for getting back :-) Sounds good that there are several options. Do you know of any who have a better integration with WHM/cPanel than others? As we understand it the crux is to have each an every domain set up with the smarthost. In our case this cannot be done manually, so it would be nice if some Smarthosts offered a Script og Plugin for WHM, which automatically would set up new domains with the Smarthost service. Any suggestions?
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  • JurieW
    Hi, @MrIver I would suggest looking at SpamExperts, Spam Filtering for Outbound Email | Spam Experts They also have a plug-in that is available in cPanel.
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  • MrIver
    Hi, @MrIver I would suggest looking at SpamExperts,
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  • cPRex Jurassic Moderator
    We aren't able to recommend third-party providers on our end, but there's lots of posts here if you do a search, and you may have to just try one out after doing some research to see if it works well for you.
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  • texo
    I have used smtp2go.com with great success. They have instructions for configuring exim on cPanel to relay all - or only some - domains' emails through their smarthost.
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  • MrIver
    I have used smtp2go.com with great success. They have instructions for configuring exim on cPanel to relay all - or only some - domains' emails through their smarthost.

    Hi Texo, thanks for your suggestion. We actually already spoke to smtp2go. They do have a API for setting up new domains on their end, but they also require you to set up a unique CNAME for each domain. Since we need to handle 3000+ domains and 4-5 new domains each day, this is simply not a viable solution. How do you handle this manual action required by smtp2go?
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  • texo
    Sorry, I forgot about that - there is no way around that, unfortunately.
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