SMTP restricted by Digital Ocean

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@KiekerJan

Do you know of providers where you have port 25 open from day 1, where there’s also a good chance of decent IP reputation?

The two that I deal with actively are LunaNode in Canada, and IntoVPS in Romania.

@KiekerJan

There’s a reply there from June 2022 that states:

To qualify for the ability to send out emails, new accounts are required to wait 60 days before a request for removing the restriction could be raised. Once your account has reached 60 days of stable use, you could reach out to the DigitalOcean support team so they could look into this for you:

So perhaps that still applies

It is still quite possible, though that is not what the announcement stated. However, it is all a moot point because if you want to set up MiaB, you do not want to have to sit and wait 60 days to maybe be approved. Most people want to set it up now. The response you mention though was not from Digital Ocean directly, so I would take it with a grain of salt.