No contracts required and you can cancel at anytime. However, if you cancel, there is no refund for the prorated unused term.

No there are no limits. You can import as many subscribers as you have.

No, there are no setup fees.

All accounts are setup manually so, for Autoresponder and SMTP Relay accounts it may take up to 48 hours, depending on our workload. Dedicated email servers may take up to 72 hours due to the complexity of the setup.

Once your order has been successfully placed after checkout your browser will be redirected to our Order Form where we will need additional information regarding access to your chosen domain's DNS panel to make the necessary DNS entries. 

Each domain registrar has different methods of delegating management of the domain's DNS. Please check with your domain registrar's support or their knowledgebase for instruction on how to grant that access.

It's recommended that you get a separate domain that is different from your primary domain, just in case you end up on blacklists. Having a domain on blacklists may cause problems with search engines and your SEO efforts.

Here are some suggestions for domain selection…
•If possible, you should NOT use a domain that’s being used for a money site in case you get blacklisted you wouldn’t want that to impact your SEO and reputation of that website/domain.

•If you feel you need to use a branded domain, be sure to use a different TLD. For example, let’s say your primary branded domain is mycooldomain.com and you want to build your branding around that domain name then consider using something like mycooldomain.net or mycooldomain.org, etc.

•If at all possible, use a domain that’s at least one year old, the older the better for reputation and delivery.

•It’s also best to use a .com, .net, or .org for better reputation and delivery.

We use Authorize.net and PayPal as our payment processing partners, which allows us to accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, JCB, Discover, and Diners Club.

Unfortunately, no one can offer a delivery guarantee due to too many variables that go into email delivery. However, we will do our best to help you with any delivery issues you may experience.

Unfortunately, no email service can guarantee 100% delivery. People change email addresses when they move or leave jobs, autoresponders are set up when people are on vacation and spam filters can trap messages before they arrive based on spam trigger words and phrases in the content.

Industry averages for delivery rates are 30-40% for business-to-business emails and 10-15% for consumer emails according to our experience. Your message content and your relationship with your list (whether or not they whitelisted you in their email client) also have a lot to do with successful delivery. With SMTP Depot's autoresponder services, you are able to see exactly who has opened which email over time and you should work on improving your open rates. Without these valuable reporting tools in our platform, you'd never have any idea who is receiving your emails and how they are engaging with them.

A hard bounce is an email message that has been returned to you because the recipient’s address is invalid. A hard bounce might occur because the domain name does not exist, the recipient is unknown, or there is a network problem on the recipient’s end.

A soft bounce is an email message that gets as far as the recipient’s mail server, but is bounced back before it reaches the recipient. One of the most common causes for a soft bounce is a full mailbox. This will happen A LOT with your subscribers who use free email services like Yahoo and Hotmail, because their relatively low email storage quotas on free email accounts.

Because this is a service with ongoing overhead cost there are no refunds. However, you can cancel at any time.

Users may not:

• Sending email to a user who has requested removal at any time.
• Attempt to hide or render in-operable the unsubscribe link.
• Attempt to hide or use a false physical mailing address in violation of the CAN-SPAM act.
• Use a deceptive, misleading, or unrelated subject line.
• Sending Unsolicited email (SPAM). You are allowed to send emails to businesses as in cold email marketing legally in the US, but not to consumers which is a violation of the CAN-SPAM act.

If your account is suspended. Please contact our support desk and create a support ticket. We will contact you and work with you to figure out what the issues are and help you resolve them. WARNING: Getting belligerent and or insulting with support staff will get your account terminated immediately and permanently.

We want your business and will work hard to keep it. However, we reserve the right at our sole discretion to terminate your account for violations of our terms of service. If that were to occur, you will receive an explanation why your account was terminated.  If your account is terminated, there will be no refund for the unused term.

The SMTP Depot service may not be used to distribute any content that is

• Pornographic
•  Hateful
• Libelous
• Illegal

In addition, the service may not be used to distribute the following types of content, due to their likelihood to create delivery problems for our customers through higher than normal bounce rates, and complaints.

• 1. Drug or medication advertisements, whether legal or illegal.
• 2. Escort or dating services
• 3. Online casino or gambling content.
• 4. Any type of betting or handicapping service.
• 5. Any type of content for which you do not have the recipients express consent to use.

If your IP(s) get on a blacklist we will notify you that your IP(s) are on whichever blacklist(s). You will have the option of ignoring it, request removal on your own or we can provide you with blacklist removal services for $5/IP/Blacklist. Ex: you have one IP listed on 3 blacklists. We will send you an email informing you that your IP(s) are blacklisted and provide you with the IP blacklisted along with the name of the blacklist. At this time, you have 3 options:

Option 1: Ignore it and do nothing. Ignoring being blacklisted can have a MAJOR negative impact on email delivery.

Option 2: You can contact the blacklist(s) in question and request removal yourself.

Option 3: We will take care of removing your IP(s) from the blacklist for $5/IP/Blacklist(s). (Blacklist removal can take up to a week or longer depending on the blacklist involved and their policies). 

It is always best to try and stay off blacklist by practicing good email sending behaviors such as, only emailing people who have opted into your list. Double or confirmed opt-ins are always best practices. Do not scrape emails. If you purchase leads, please be sure to verify email addresses through a reputable verification service. Have an obvious unsubscribe link in each email and make sure all emails are CAN-SPAM compliant.

We have tried that in the past and unfortunately SMTP's sender reputations were quickly destroyed by customers that did not follow good email practices.