# Allowing a backup email system
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-a-backup-email-system/318557
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** email
**Created:** [July 26, 2024, 11:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-a-backup-email-system/318557 "2024-07-26T11:24:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@orangelol](https://meta.discourse.org/u/orangelol)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2024, 11:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-a-backup-email-system/318557/1 "2024-07-26T11:24:47Z")
Currently, my system is forced to use a free mail service called mailjet. Our website gets way more traffic then how much mailjet can offer. Although this may not be possible it would be a life saver.
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### Author:  [@maiki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maiki)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-a-backup-email-system/318557/2 "2024-07-26T21:43:14Z")
> [@orangelol](#):
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> Currently, my system is forced to use a free mail service called mailjet.
Please clarify: what is being enforced, and how?
I’ve self-hosted for multiple years, often having switched email services due to one changing their terms, but only due to price comparison.
Are you able to switch to a different email delivery service? Are you able to pay Mailjet to deliver more mail?
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### Author:  [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2024, 10:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-a-backup-email-system/318557/3 "2024-07-26T22:31:19Z")
Can you give us an idea on number of emails per month?
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### Author:  [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2024, 2:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-a-backup-email-system/318557/4 "2024-07-27T02:44:42Z")
The easiest way to do this would seem to be external to Discourse – specifically, a tool that accepted mail delivery, then used one of a number of third-party services to relay the mail. I’m not aware of such a tool already existing, but it would seem to be a better solution than trying to build in some sort of mail relay redundancy into Discourse itself.
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### Author:  [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2024, 3:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-a-backup-email-system/318557/5 "2024-07-27T03:40:19Z")
If self hosted this plugin allows to route email to another email delivery service.
> [@Discourse Another SMTP](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-another-smtp/262532):
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> information_sourceSummary This plugin allows you to add another SMTP server for sending emails to specific email addresseshammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [Lhcfl/discourse-another-smtp (github.com)](https://github.com/Lhcfl/discourse-another-smtp)open_bookInstall Guide [How to install plugins in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-plugins-in-discourse/19157)Features This plugin is very simple: it gives you some options, and the email address in the settings will use an alternative smtp server instead of the one you configured in app.yml What is it fo…