Transactional email for small biz

Contact form email for small businesses

ehlomail delivers the emails your website's contact form generates: a notification to you, and an optional receipt to the person who reached out. Our mission is simple: provide a low-cost solution for small businesses that send a low volume of "low risk" email.

// a visitor submits your contact form
EHLO mail.ehlomail.bocallmlabs.com
250 Hello, pleased to meet you
MAIL FROM:<forms@yourbusiness.com>
250 OK  // SPF, DKIM, DMARC aligned
RCPT TO:<owner@yourbusiness.com>
250 OK  // your own verified inbox
DATA
Subject: New inquiry from your website
250 Queued
QUIT
221 Bye

One job

Every email we send is triggered when a real person submits a form on a customer's website. There's no campaign builder and no list import, so nothing is sent to anyone who didn't take an action.

WE SEND Transactional Email / Contact Form Email

  • Form notifications to the business's own verified address when someone submits a contact, quote, or booking request form submitted by a human.
  • Submission receipts to the person who filled out the form, sent once, to the address they typed in, confirming the message was received.
  • Account notices to our own customers: verification, security, and billing emails.

WE DO NOT SEND Anything else

  • Marketing or promotional email, SPAM, including newsletters, offers, and drip sequences.
  • Bulk sends to lists. Purchased, rented, scraped, or imported lists aren't accepted.
  • Cold outreach or any message to someone who didn't contact the business first.
  • Follow-ups. A receipt is a single message, not the start of a sequence.

Who it's for

Small, low-volume senders in low-risk industries. Every account is reviewed by a person before it can send.

Local & professional services

Contractors, clinics, law and accounting firms, studios, and other service businesses whose website exists to collect inquiries.

Nonprofits & community groups

Volunteer sign-up, general inquiry, and event RSVP forms for organizations with a public presence.

Agencies & web developers

Teams that build and maintain small-business sites and need dependable form delivery for each client domain they manage.

NOT ACCEPTED Industries we don't serve

  • Adult content and services, gambling and betting, and pharmaceuticals, supplements, or controlled substances
  • Cryptocurrency, trading signals, payday loans, debt relief, and "get rich" or MLM programs
  • Firearms, tobacco and vaping, and cannabis and CBD
  • Lead generation resellers, affiliate marketing, and data brokers

The full list is in our Acceptable Use Policy, but we reserve the right to deny anyone.

How we protect recipients and deliverability

Our sending reputation is shared across every customer, so we keep the rules strict and enforce them automatically.

  1. Manual account review

    New accounts start sandboxed. Before sending is enabled, we check the business, its website, and the forms it will connect.

  2. Verified, authenticated domains

    Customers can only send from domains they've verified with DKIM and SPF and that publish a DMARC record.

  3. Low default sending limits

    Accounts get conservative daily and per-minute caps sized to contact-form traffic. Sudden spikes are throttled and reviewed.

  4. Abuse-resistant forms

    Form endpoints are rate limited per IP and require bot protection, so a spammer can't use a customer's form to relay mail.

  1. Automatic bounce suppression

    A hard bounce adds the address to a suppression list immediately. We never retry suppressed addresses.

  2. Complaint handling

    A spam complaint will suppress the address for that account and flag the account for review.

  3. Continuous monitoring

    We track bounce and complaint rates per account and pause sending when an account crosses our thresholds. Those thresholds are well below the limits set by mailbox providers.

  4. Clear identification

    Every message identifies the sending business and says why the recipient got it.

Enforcement thresholds

This is what we've come up with for now from the start, subject to change.

SignalReview triggeredSending paused
Bounce rateAbove 2%Above 4%
Complaint rateAbove 0.05%Above 0.08%
Volume spike3× trailing averageThrottled pending review
AUP violationSending suspended immediately

Request access

ehlomail is onboarding a small number of businesses by hand. Send us your business name, website, the form or forms you want to connect, and roughly how many submissions you get each month.

Email welcome@bocallmlabs.com

Request access

To report abuse or an unwanted email sent through ehlomail, write to welcome@bocallmlabs.com with "abuse" in the subject. We read every report.