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# Cloud Email (SMTP)

There are plenty of cloud storage providers that support the email SMTP hosting. 

Unlike AWS S3, I highly recommend AWS SES.

## Known SaaS Providers

* Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
* Mailgun
* SparkPost (Known to cancel Mastodon instances accounts for "spam")
* <https://www.zoho.com/zeptomail/>
* <https://www.smtp2go.com/> (recommended by pettingzoo)<br>