# Cheaper alternative to Mailgun?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cheaper-alternative-to-mailgun/232903
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** email
**Created:** [July 14, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cheaper-alternative-to-mailgun/232903 "2022-07-14T17:57:42Z")
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### Author: ![Richie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/richie/32/115110_2.png) [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2023, 8:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cheaper-alternative-to-mailgun/232903/25 "2023-06-22T20:54:47Z")

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> [@RGJ](#):
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> How much are you currently spending on those 120k emails?

Around GBP£29 / USD$37 per month.

> [@RGJ](#):
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> Maybe you shouldn’t do that anyway…?

Oh? 🤔 What should I do? 🤔 I’m completely open to options here 😃

> [@volanar](#):
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> Use [GitHub - docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver](https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver)

But where do I host it that isn’t on a blacklisted subnet already? 🤷🏻

> [@Richie](#):
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> I seem to recall trying SES a while back but had problems with people replying to it

I found my SES issues from back in 2020: [Troubleshooting Amazon AWS SES sending email via SMTP - #10 by pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubleshooting-amazon-aws-ses-sending-email-via-smtp/163100/10)

Maybe I need to revisit the whole reply-via-email thing.

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