What is the email quota on the free plan?

Anvil Q&A
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I haven’t found the available quota for sending emails on this or any other page.

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Unfortunately, if we allowed free accounts to send email out-of-the-box, we’d be overrun with spammers in no time! So Free accounts can only send email via a custom SMTP server (ie, if they already have their own mechanism for delivering email).

(And yes, we’re working on consolidating all those quotas into one place!)

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Hi Stefano
for what it’s worth, I have been using mailjet free plan for almost 1 year by now, and it works quite well.

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I use https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/
Have never gone over the free allowance. Works well.

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:frowning:

Allowing a few per month would be of great help (maybe if we can specially request it?). I am still trying to test if Anvil is worth our business jumping into. Unfortunately, feature lock ups make this difficult. Anyways, so far I have had a fantastic experience.

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Good news: you can still build and test apps using the Email Service! If you’re on the Free plan, you’re always in Test Mode – this means all emails are redirected to the email address associated with your Anvil account – but they still send! Perhaps the docs should make this more clear :slight_smile:

Plus, of course, as is mentioned up-thread, you can sign up for a free external email provider and use them if you want; we just really do not want to deal with the hassle of “being a free account to send email from”.

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