Open Mind Labs
Open Mind LabsSMTP Relay
Transactional Email Infrastructure | Zambia

SMTP thatactually delivers.

Open Mind Labs is an SMTP relay for the mail your product has to get right — receipts, resets, invoices, alerts. Point your app at our server, authenticate your domain, and watch the logs instead of the spam folder.

Median accept

< 400ms

Auth

SPF · DKIM · DMARC

Endpoint

smtp.omldesign.com

01 / Integration

Four lines of config. No rewrite.

It is plain SMTP, so whatever your stack already uses — Nodemailer, smtplib, PHPMailer, Laravel, Django, WordPress — keeps working. Swap the host, port and credentials, and you are sending.

send.js
import nodemailer from "nodemailer";

const transport = nodemailer.createTransport({
  host: "smtp.omldesign.com",
  port: 587,
  secure: false, // STARTTLS upgrade
  auth: {
    user: process.env.OML_SMTP_USER,
    pass: process.env.OML_SMTP_PASSWORD,
  },
});

await transport.sendMail({
  from: "billing@yourdomain.com",
  to: "customer@example.com",
  subject: "Your receipt",
  html: "<p>Thanks for your payment.</p>",
});

Connection details

Host
smtp.omldesign.com
Port
587
Encryption
STARTTLS
Auth
Username / password
Migrating from another provider?

Your existing SPF and DKIM records stay valid until you cut over. Add ours, verify, flip the host — no downtime window, no dual-sending period.

02 / Platform

Everything the mail needs. Nothing it doesn't.

No campaign builder, no drag-and-drop templates, no contact lists. One job: getting your application's email into the inbox and telling you the truth about what happened to it.

Domain authentication

Add a domain, copy the generated SPF, DKIM and DMARC records, and we verify them for you. Green ticks or a plain explanation of what is still wrong.

spf · dkim · dmarc

Per-app credentials

Issue a separate SMTP username and password for each app or environment. Rotate or revoke one without touching anything else.

scoped · revocable

Real mailboxes

Every plan includes mailboxes you can actually receive on, not just a write-only relay. Send from billing@, reply from support@.

send + receive

Delivery logs you can read

Every message with its status, recipient response and queue ID. When a customer says they never got the invoice, you can say exactly what happened.

per-message trace

REST relay API

Prefer HTTP to a socket? Post JSON to the relay endpoint with an API key and skip the SMTP client entirely. Same domains, same logs.

http + smtp

TLS by default

STARTTLS on port 587 with TLS 1.3, enforced. Credentials never cross the wire in the clear, and we do not read your message bodies.

tls 1.3 enforced

03 / Getting started

Sending in under an afternoon.

The only step you cannot rush is DNS propagation, and that is usually minutes.

01

Create your account

2 minutes

Pick a plan, confirm your email, and you land in the dashboard. Nothing to install and no sales call in between.

02

Add and verify your domain

one DNS visit

We generate the exact SPF, DKIM and DMARC records for your domain. Paste them into your DNS, hit verify, and the dashboard tells you which record is still missing if one is.

03

Issue SMTP credentials

instant

Create a username and password per app or environment. Drop the host, port 587 and those credentials into your mail config — that is the whole integration.

04

Send and watch the log

ongoing

Every message shows up with its status, the receiving server's response and a queue ID you can quote to a customer. Daily volume against your plan limit sits on the same screen.

04 / Pricing

Priced in kwacha. Billed per month.

A flat monthly fee and a daily send limit — no per-email metering, no surprise overage invoice at the end of a busy month. Six-month and annual billing are available at checkout.

Starter

One app, one domain, predictable volume.

80ZMW/month

+ 500 ZMW one-time setup

  • 1 Mailbox Included
  • 500 Emails / Day
  • Standard Delivery Speed
  • Basic Analytics
  • SPF & DKIM Authentication
  • Community Support
Get Starter
Most popular

Team

Several products or environments sending at once.

600ZMW/month

+ 500 ZMW one-time setup

  • 5 Mailboxes Included
  • 2,000 Emails / Day
  • Priority Delivery Queue
  • Advanced Analytics & Logs
  • Full DNS Authentication
  • 24/7 Priority Support
Get Team

Sending more than 2,000 a day, or need mailboxes on several domains? Talk to us about a custom plan — or see the full plan comparison.

05 / Questions

Before you switch.

The things people ask us on the first call.

No. We handle transactional mail — password resets, receipts, invoices, order updates, system alerts. There is no campaign builder or contact list here, and bulk marketing blasts are not permitted on the shared infrastructure because they put everyone else's delivery at risk.

06 / Contact

Talk to someone who runs the mail server.

Migration questions, volume above the Team plan, a deliverability problem you inherited — tell us what you are sending and we will tell you honestly whether we are a good fit.

sales-enquiry.form

Location

Lusaka, Zambia

GMT+2 · Mon-Fri 8am to 5pm

WhatsApp

+260 XXX XXX XXX

Connect with us

Enquiries answered within one business day
Or just sign up and start sending