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• Anonymous commented  ·  March 25, 2012 6:49 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Considering the simplicity and amiability of Google Apps setup (Free to some extend), it is very difficult to foresee Azure dominating cloud technology. I am saying this despite the fact that I am a diehard fan of Microsoft technologies.

• Paul Hicks commented  ·  March 7, 2012 9:08 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  This is a perfect example of the problems Microsoft have with their Cloud offering. Amazon provide a Simple Email Service that is free to use for a few thousand emails from your compute instance. Microsoft want you to use a third party provider, or use an Exchange Server which is overkill for sending a handfull of status emails per month.

  So in response to Haris Majeed, I would say the scenario that is not covered is one where we have no 'on-premise' email server and would like to send less than 100 emails a month without having to use a third party.

• charo commented  ·  June 24, 2011 4:50 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  para poder entrar en flas player???
  indicaciones en español
  gracias.

• Lee Smith commented  ·  January 13, 2011 6:12 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I use: http://elasticemail.com/

  it's 'pay as you send' and has a RESTful api. What else do you need?

• zmorris commented  ·  November 5, 2010 5:14 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  seconded

• Jonas commented  ·  November 5, 2010 2:46 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I'd like to second Emmanuel Huna's view on this. And as far as I understand it, the options mentioned when this feature request moved to "completed" are just workarounds for a missing feature. This is still too complicated for such a common task

• Steven Nagy commented  ·  October 30, 2010 3:38 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Presumably you could now also spin up your own VM role that has exchange installed?

• Fabrizio commented  ·  October 29, 2010 10:26 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Consider to add a native service to send email directly from inside Azure.

• Djon commented  ·  October 29, 2010 4:12 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  There's a great blog post by the Windows Azure team on how to send mail from Azure.

  Part 1: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2010/10/08/adoption-program-insights-sending-emails-from-windows-azure-part-1-of-2.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0

  Part 2: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2010/10/15/adoption-program-insights-sending-emails-from-windows-azure-part-2-of-2.aspx

• simnova commented  ·  June 8, 2010 11:44 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Check out SendGrid / AuthSMTP / PostMark all very capable providers

• Steven Nagy commented  ·  May 24, 2010 4:48 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  +1 Vote - Totally agree with this request. Pay per email, whatever the pricing strategy, I don't care. Currently people are just going to use the Gmail relay. The differentiator for Azure will be the X service offerings that seamlessly integrate with the platform.

• Joshua commented  ·  April 23, 2010 2:09 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Sending an email is a fundamental requirement of any cloud hosting solution. Yet both Azure and Amazon seem to be missing it. In the mean time we are using Elastic Email, which is cheap and good. http://elasticemail.com

• StLuisRey commented  ·  March 29, 2010 9:56 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Slightly off topic but http://cloudmail.codeplex.com/

• backus.naur commented  ·  February 14, 2010 7:57 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Great, just make sure that it's not economically viable for spammers.

• Emmanuel Huna commented  ·  January 26, 2010 3:30 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Michael Brown: why do I need another billing relationship with another company just so I can get access to a SMTP server? Sending email from our apps is a very common feature, Microsoft should make it easier on us and allow us to use a Windows Azure SMTP server for outgoing emails.

• Michael Brown commented  ·  January 26, 2010 3:02 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Seriously people Using Azure your azure traffic quota and machine time for Email? Register through godaddy and you get email included in your account. Now use any of the SMTP libraries (IPWorks is good) to connect to for sending. Have another service running to poll for emails over pop. Done and Done.

• Bruce commented  ·  January 26, 2010 2:45 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  There should be a more generic Alerting / Notification system available for Azure apps. See my suggestion for "Azure Alerting System using Text Messaging". Many Azure apps would like to be able to send out a notification / alert using a variety of different transports - SMS, Email, Phone. This would be a valuable service to have. One simple feature could be to enable Azure Apps to have mailbox(es) e.g. "user@myazureapp..cloudapp.net" associated with the project.

• Dharmendra commented  ·  January 9, 2010 11:08 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Right now i depend on gmail smtp for sending emails, but its kind of very frustating that azure does not have any emails functionality

• Mike Leach commented  ·  December 29, 2009 3:44 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Is this request perhaps referring to a need for an email "relay" service in Azure?

  You can send emails just fine, but you'll need a trusted SMTP relay service to deliver them.

• Luis Martins commented  ·  December 19, 2009 10:35 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Allow the use of a BPOS account to be used to send email