MicrosoftAs a small company would need some of these accounts for SMTP, this would just push us to a 3rd party. I know it's for High Volume but it really is a SMTP replacement and a pity there's no daily allowance before charges
MicrosoftHigh Volume Email (HVE) is not intended to be a general‑purpose SMTP replacement, even though it uses SMTP as the transport. It was designed specifically to address a different problem: enabling very high‑scale, automated, internal messaging without impacting user mailboxes, service limits, or tenant mail flow health.
For smaller environments, existing options like SMTP client submission or SMTP relay often continue to be the best fit, particularly when:
Sorry, but when you browse to How to set up a multifunction device or application to send email using Microsoft 365 or Office 365 | Microsoft Learn, the section about SMTP client submission recommends moving to HVE! We've moved to modern authentication for SMTP client or SMTP where possible, but sometimes it's not. A free quota would be ideal for these scenarios.
This is a disingenuous response. You suggest SMTP client submission, but this is being deprecated. Additionally, for small environments, there are situations where the public IP is dynamic, so SMTP relay is not an option.
HVE has been advertised as a replacement for SMTP auth and adding this billing requirement a mere 2 months before it goes live is quite infuriating.
We are an MSP with many small business clients and are already using HVE (as we phaseout SMTP auth) as a last-resort solution for situations that will typically have 100 or fewer email deliveries per month. Setting up an Azure subscription and PAYGO billing for what will end up being a $0.00 bill is a complete waste of time and effort.
Why not just make the first X recipient deliveries free and then, if that limit is approached with no billing policy set, prepend a warning with subsequent deliveries that deliveries will stop working when the limit is reached?
This is indeed a good idea for low volume cases. We are looking for a solution to migrate SMT AUTH internal mailing to HVE, external mailing possibly to Azure Messaging SMTP AUTH. This free tier could scale with qualified user-licensed mailboxes (EO, M365, O365) in a tenant (i.e. 50-100/year/mailbox) it would be organic and would eliminate superfluous 0,0X EUR monthly bills.
Example: 10000 emails would be 0,42 USD, 0,035 $ monthly
