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Open beta: European mail servers

Have a lot of readers in the EU? Our new mail servers can help with inbox placement rates

Open beta: European mail servers
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CloseThis blog post is from 2020. Contents (and screenshots) may be a bit of out date, but we've kept it up out of posterity.

I am particularly excited to share that I am now forwarded some traffic through the EU. You may be wondering: uh, why?

Well, for starters, this means you can make sure your customer data and emails are processed without leaving the EU. There's increasing complexity in how to manage data, and also a healthy dose of better-safe-than-sorryism.

Plus, location matters. EU-borne emails are going to be faster and have better inbox placement rates than US-borne emails if the majority of your subscribers are European.

I haven't exposed this as a setting yet in Buttondown (it is not obvious to me that I ever will, since it seems like a niche request), but if you're interested, please email me and I'll flag you in!

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July 8, 2020

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Justin Duke

Justin Duke is a software engineer, lover of words, and the creator of Buttondown.

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