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> There was one annoying limitation. I had to submit a special request before I could send emails to new addresses that had not previously messaged me.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding but this sounds absolutely wild. What?

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Before sending to strangers you have to request outbound access just once for domain. We manually evaluate your request and approve it, it takes a few hours. Yes it seems wild, but, it helped a lot to keep out of the platform spammers: being a free service we receive sometime requests from throwaway domains that are used by spammers. We also check that the domain is not blacklisted or is not looking like well known companies, like amazon-customer.com, etc. What does it means for our users? Well, bounce rate below 0.1% and 0 complains so far. Reputation when sending emails is everything, and it's the most important thing to preserve in FounderMail.

The founder of foundermail actually left a comment here talking about this. I will likely update the article that it took less than 7 hours to be approved.

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