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How has Skiff's email deliverability been?

I'm curious if your emails go to spam more frequently, being a smaller player in an established hegemony.

You have a generous free tier which may attract spammers. How do you deal with IP reputation?

I opened an account at Skiff a few weeks ago and have used it in limited amount since then. But sending an email to my outlook.com address and my wife's gmail they both went right to inbox on first try. That was pretty impressive considering some long established email providers still go right to my spam at times.

Deliverability is a constant challenge for us to improve on. We have rate limits that do try to protect email deliverability. Things should be good today but it will always be something to watch.

@Amilich, what's your approach to companies wanting to use Skiff? I'm starting a company of my own and while I'd love to use Skiff, there are a bunch of blockers including email inbox warming. Without SMTP/IMAP support, no warming tool will work, and no API means no one can build scripts to do the same. This small case itself will be a blocker around adoption for companies right?

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