SMTP INFRA · GMAIL-FOCUSED · MANAGED

The Gmail sending infrastructure mainstream ESPs won't build.

A dedicated MTA fleet backed by 50,000 to 100,000 Gmail-routed warmup messages per slot, per day at steady state, plus capacity for up to 100,000 production sends per slot per day after managed ramp. Content-matched, continuously managed, built for operators mainstream ESPs won't take.

50K–100K
warmup messages
per domain / per day
100%
Gmail-hosted
warmup endpoints
Up to 100K
production sends
per domain / per day

We optimize for reliable acceptance and pipeline stability. Inbox placement itself is never guaranteed — it depends on your content, list, and recipient behavior. What we control is measured, managed, and reported.

§ 01 / Warmup

Production-scale warmup.

Most warmup products move tens or hundreds of generic messages a day. Postmaster Ops moves 50,000 to 100,000 content-matched warmup messages through Google-operated Gmail receiving infrastructure for every active sending domain, every day. That is the same order of magnitude as your production sending volume — which is why the phrase "we warm your domains" means something different here than everywhere else.

Warmup does not end when production begins. It remains active alongside customer traffic, continuously managed against SMTP responses, deferrals, user feedback, and Google Postmaster signals.

At steady state, a single domain carries 50,000 to 100,000 managed warmup messages plus up to 100,000 production sends each day. Your domain is already sustaining Gmail-directed traffic at production-order volume before your campaign depends on it.

This does not guarantee inbox placement. It does mean you are not taking a domain that has been sending 50 messages a day and suddenly asking it to carry 100,000.

Per-domain daily traffic composition

Managed warmup
50K–100K/ day / domain
  • Content-matched to your production profile
  • Continuous — active alongside production
  • Gmail-hosted endpoints, 100%
Production sends
Up to 100K/ day / domain
  • Customer campaigns, per your Service Order
  • Throughput governed by live delivery signals
  • Gmail recipients
Google-operated Gmail receiving infrastructure SMTP · TLS · MX-level authentication
50K–100K warmup + up to 100K production per slot · per day · Gmail-directed · after managed ramp
250 accepted
4xx deferred
5xx rejected
Postmaster monitored
§ 02 / Specs

What you actually get. Line by line.

Layer Capability Details
Warmup Production-scale warmup Each active sending domain receives 50,000 to 100,000 content-matched warmup messages per day after ramp. Every warmup endpoint is Gmail-hosted and routes through Google-operated receiving infrastructure. Warmup continues alongside production traffic and is adjusted using SMTP responses, deferrals, complaint trends, and Postmaster data — no fabricated content, no third-party payloads, no engagement-faking.
Transport Dedicated MTA fleet Purpose-built fleet distributed across multiple upstream carriers. Traffic is distributed to reduce single-provider failure risk and limit the blast radius of carrier-level abuse events.
Isolation Dedicated IP + domain per slot Each slot pairs one sending domain with one dedicated IPv4 address; that pair is provisioned to your account and not shared. Plans include 1, 3, 5, or 10 slots. Transport orchestration and monitoring are shared across the fleet; sending-domain and IP-level reputation is measured and reported per slot.
Deliverability Gmail-focused routing discipline All customer traffic is routed exclusively to @gmail.com. The signals that most directly affect Gmail delivery — SMTP responses, authentication, recipient feedback, sending consistency, Postmaster telemetry — are the ones we monitor and remediate on your behalf.
Observability Scheduled Postmaster synchronization Every registered sending domain is synced daily to Google Postmaster Tools (Google's own data cadence, ~24h). Compliance trend, user-reported spam rate, delivery-error breakdowns — the signals Google actually publishes, surfaced as a dashboard you can read at a glance instead of ten separate Postmaster tabs.
Diagnostics End-to-end delivery diagnostics Transport outcomes are classified as accepted, deferred, or rejected from the remote SMTP response. Controlled seed tests to real Gmail accounts we monitor separately report inbox, spam, or missing placement — transport and mailbox placement are distinct signals, not conflated.
Compliance List-Unsubscribe & one-click opt-out RFC 8058 one-click unsubscribe wired into every send by default. Bounces and unsubscribes propagate to a per-customer suppression list; the aggregate user-reported spam rate is tracked via Google Postmaster and surfaced with weekly trend reporting.
Data handling No full-list ingestion No uploaded subscriber files accepted or stored. Recipient addresses and message content live in the active sending queue only, until final acceptance, final rejection, or 72h queue age — whichever comes first. Delivery-event metadata (no recipient local part) retained 30 days. Per-slot aggregate rollups (anonymized) retained 90 days. Suppression identifiers stored as customer-scoped HMAC hashes for the account lifetime plus 30 days. Full retention matrix in §03 Data.
§ 03 / Data

Metadata only. Short retention. Yours to check & enforce.

We store what the relay needs to prove delivery, protect the fleet, and keep your suppression list honest. Message bodies are removed from the active queue once the remote MTA accepts the send and are not persisted in downstream records; see the transient-copy note below.

We retain after final disposition
slot · sender domain · recipient domain
message-id · timestamps · latency
SMTP response · outcome class
customer-scoped suppression hash
Not retained in standard delivery records
recipient local part (address before @)
subject line · message body · attachments
arbitrary custom headers · display names
anything past SMTP DATA once accepted or rejected

Raw recipient addresses and production content exist in primary storage only within the active sending queue — until final acceptance, final rejection, or the queue's maximum retention age (72 hours), whichever comes first. After final disposition, standard delivery records are limited to the fields shown on the left. Restricted transient operational copies follow the separate maximum retention periods below.

Delivery event logs
30 days
metadata only · no recipient local part
Aggregate stats
90 days
anonymized · per-slot rollups
Suppression hashes
permanent during account
by design · protects fleet

Primary-storage retention is enforced at write time. Raw addresses cannot be recovered from hashes, so bulk export of raw suppressions is not offered. Financial and sanctions-screening records are retained as legally required (§4 & §6 of the Terms).

Transient operational copies. Standard operating infrastructure — MTA logs, backup snapshots, exception traces — may transiently capture identifiable data beyond the primary-storage windows above. Current maximums: MTA / journald logs 30 days, encrypted backups 30 days, exception traces 7 days. Access is restricted to authorized operators. Full detail in the privacy policy.

§ 04 / Policy

Explicit is better than implicit.

Every AUP handwaves. Ours won't. Below is the concrete list of what we take and what we don't. Vetting call resolves edge cases before either of us wires money.

+ Accepted verticals
  • Bizop & direct-response marketing
  • Supplements, nootropics, weight-loss offers
  • Regulated gambling (with licensing evidence)
  • MLM & network marketing
  • Digital-asset marketing (lawful non-security tokens and registered offerings only)
  • Dating & relationship products
  • Adult content (case-by-case, tier-limited)
  • Any legal vertical shut out by mainstream ESPs
× Refused categorically
  • Romance scams or fabricated identity ops
  • Phishing or brand / person impersonation
  • Unregistered securities offerings
  • Non-consensual content of any kind
  • Prescription pharma without pharmacy licensing
  • Gambling into restricted jurisdictions
  • Anything you couldn't defend to a judge
§ 05 / Pricing

Priced for operators. Not experimenters.

Priced per slot — one dedicated IP paired with one dedicated sending domain. Each slot handles managed warmup plus up to 100,000 production sends per day to @gmail.com, capped server-side. No free tier. No trial. No self-serve signup — every account is on-boarded personally. Full production capacity reached after 2–4 weeks of managed ramp.

Plan Slots Monthly Per-slot Combined production cap Support
Starter 1 $ 2,500/mo $2,500 100K / day Email support · Postmaster sync
Growth most operators 3 $ 7,200/mo $2,400 (−4%) 300K / day Direct operator line · monthly review
Scale 5 $11,500/mo $2,300 (−8%) 500K / day Direct operator line · bi-weekly review
Fleet 10 $22,000/mo $2,200 (−12%) 1M / day Priority attention · weekly review
First-month totals — Starter $3,500 · Growth $8,200 · Scale $12,500 · Fleet $23,000. Onboarding is a one-time charge billed with month 1; from month 2 onward you pay the plan price alone.
Warmup is on top — the 100K/day per slot is your production cap; warmup traffic is fleet-managed and does not count against it. Larger plans get slightly lower per-slot pricing.
§ 06 / Onboarding

What happens once we determine there's a fit. Four stages, no surprises.

Vetting first, invoice second, provisioning third — so nobody wires before both sides know the account is going to happen. Full ramp is roughly two to four weeks depending on domain count. Every stage has a concrete milestone you can point at; you always know what "on track" looks like.

  1. 01

    Fit & compliance review

    Business identity, verticals, offer, list source, jurisdictional exposure, existing Postmaster history. A short async questionnaire on top of the intro call. Either side can walk here at no charge — no invoice has been issued yet.

  2. 02

    Service order & first-month invoice

    Once both sides approve the account, we issue a written service order with your assigned address space, sending domains, DNS-record blueprint, and expected throughput ceiling — and the first-month invoice. Provisioning begins when payment clears.

  3. 03

    Controlled validation

    Authentication verified end-to-end, SMTP integration proved out against your submission client, event feedback wired in, seed monitoring active. A limited first production segment goes out — small enough that any misconfigure surfaces cheaply.

  4. 04

    Managed ramp & steady-state

    Daily volume increases governed by SMTP responses, Postmaster trends, and recipient behavior — not by a fixed calendar. Once at target throughput, monitoring, automatic throttling, incident handling, and scheduled reviews take over.

What we control — availability, authentication, routing, SMTP-response classification, infrastructure monitoring, ramp discipline.   What you control — list source & permission, offer & claim legality, message content, engagement quality, audience targeting. Inbox placement depends on both sides.

§ 07 / Terms

How we operate.

Payment

Wire or crypto. Prepaid.

Bank wire (USD) or crypto (USDC, USDT, BTC). Invoiced by Oliver DeNune INC dba Postmaster Ops, a Pennsylvania corporation. NET-0 on the first cycle; other terms only where stated in the Service Order.

Vetting

15-minute call before setup.

Every account is preceded by a call — brand, offer, volume, target market, technical setup. Not a sales pitch; a filter. We defend your traffic to our upstream, and you agree in advance to what we'll boot you for.

Suspension & termination

Cure-first for reputation. Immediate for fraud.

Reputation-related issues get a written notice and a defined remediation window (7 days) before any action. Prepaid unused funds are pro-rated and refunded in that case — we win when you stay, not when you overpay. Immediate suspension is reserved for fraud, phishing, illegal activity, or urgent upstream-abuse events; termination for those causes forfeits prepaid funds.

Data handling

No full-list ingestion.

Uploaded subscriber files are neither accepted nor stored. Recipient addresses and message content live in the active sending queue only; nothing past SMTP DATA persists after acceptance or rejection. Delivery-event metadata (without recipient local part) is retained 30 days. Suppression identifiers are stored as customer-scoped HMAC hashes. Full per-signal retention in §03 Data.

§ 08 / Apply

Ask about a slot.

postmasterops · session · signal-safe

$./apply --intro "one paragraph, no NDA needed"

// sender identity · verticals · current provider · target monthly volume

Introduce yourself.

Slot availability is capped at a manageable customer count per operator. Tell us who you are and what you send; we'll book a call within 48 hours.