Plenty of important email in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is not written by a person at all. Your website sends contact-form notifications. Your accounting package sends invoices. Your property management system sends booking confirmations. By default, many of these tools send through a shared web-hosting server or a personal mailbox, and that is where messages start disappearing into junk folders. An SMTP relay fixes that.
What an SMTP relay does
Instead of sending directly, your software hands each message to Mailpro’s SMTP server, which delivers it through infrastructure that is monitored for reputation and properly authenticated. You change a few settings, and the rest of your workflow stays the same. For background on the protocol, see what is SMTP?
Typical uses in SVG
- WordPress and other websites: contact forms, order notifications and password resets. See our guide to the best SMTP set-up for WordPress.
- Accounting and invoicing: invoices and statements from tools like QuickBooks or Xero, where you may later need to prove delivery.
- Hotel and villa systems: confirmations and pre-arrival messages for guests from Europe and North America.
- Office printers, scanners and internal apps: scan-to-email and alerts that should not be blocked.
Set-up in outline
- Create a Mailpro account and SMTP credentials.
- In your software’s outgoing mail settings, enter the Mailpro host, port (587 with STARTTLS is the usual choice) and your credentials.
- Authenticate your domain with SPF, DKIM and DMARC records at your DNS provider.
- Send a test and check it in the delivery logs.
Security and honesty
Connections are encrypted with TLS 1.3 and every sender must authenticate. That matters locally too: SVG’s Cybercrime Act 2016 treats spoofed senders and falsified headers as offences, so a relay that only sends mail you are authorised to send protects you as well as your recipients.
See what was delivered
Mailpro keeps logs and SMTP server statistics for every message: delivered, bounced, opened or clicked. When a guest says they never got their confirmation, you can check in seconds. Our SMTP statistics page explains how to read them.
Why Swiss hosting helps
Many Vincentian businesses email European guests whose data is protected by GDPR. Mailpro hosts data in Switzerland, which benefits from an EU adequacy decision, on private infrastructure outside US jurisdiction. Data is never sold or rented.
Pricing that suits small volumes
You pay for the emails you send. A small guesthouse sending a few hundred transactional emails a month is not charged like a large retailer. New accounts start with 500 free credits. If you are building your own application, compare the relay with the email API before deciding.