Cold Email Infrastructure
The Email Infrastructure Problem Nobody Talks About
You didn't get into cold email to become an IT department. You got into it to book meetings. To close deals. To scale. But somewhere along the way, your "outreach system" turned into a full-time infrastructure project.
Sound familiar?
You buy a batch of inboxes from some vendor on Twitter. Works for two weeks. Then—poof—suspended. Blacklisted. Gone.
So you buy more. Different vendor this time. "Aged tenants," they say. "Warmed and ready."
Three days later: spam folder. Bounce rates through the roof. Another $500 down the drain.
You've done this dance before. Buy accounts. Warm them up for weeks. Launch your campaign. Then—sometime between day 14 and day 45—the reply rate craters. Or worse: accounts disconnected. Leads stop flowing. Pipeline dries up.
So you switch providers. Start over. Pray this batch lasts longer.
It never does.
Here's the lie you were sold:
"You just need a different provider."
"You need cheaper accounts."
"You need better warmup tools."
None of that is your problem.
Your problem is what's under the hood of every account you've ever bought.
The Dirty Secret of Your "Email Infrastructure"
Most vendors aren't selling you infrastructure. They're selling you a login credential—usually on a loopholed Education or Non-Profit tier that was never meant for cold outreach.
That's not a sending system. That's a ticking clock.
Google and Microsoft aren't stupid. They know these loopholes exist. They patch them. And when they do? You're not a customer to them. You're an intruder. Your campaigns die overnight.
You've been playing cat and mouse.
And you've been the mouse.
The Invisible Filter You Can't See
Here's what your vendors never told you:
When you send Gmail-to-Gmail or Outlook-to-Outlook, your email stays on the inbound MTA route. It never leaves the provider's ecosystem. Fewer hops. Fewer checkpoints. The trust is implicit.
Cold outreach doesn't get that luxury.
Your traffic goes outbound—and that's where everything changes. Your email has to pass through the sending MTA, cross the public internet, hit the receiving MTA, survive the inbound Email Security Gateway (Proofpoint, Mimecast, Barracuda), and then face the inbox provider's own filters.
Each checkpoint is asking the same question: "Who is vouching for this sender?"
Here's what they're actually checking:
- IP reputation — Is your sending IP on a shared pool with 200 other cold emailers? (It probably is.)
- Domain age and history — Fresh domains get sandboxed. Burned domains stay burned.
- SPF/DKIM/DMARC alignment — Authentication proves you sent it. It doesn't prove you're welcome.
- Sending pattern analysis — Microsoft's SmartScreen and Google's AI detect cold email velocity signatures regardless of your copy.
- Engagement velocity — Replies within 24 hours boost you. Silence buries you.
And here's the kill shot: Your warmup is theater.
Google and Microsoft know the warmup tags. They know which "reply" accounts are bots. Warmup tools inflate your numbers inside a sandbox—but the moment you hit real prospects at scale, you're starting from zero reputation on the outbound route.
Loophole accounts don't have MTA-level signing. They have authentication—which anyone can set up in 10 minutes. That's the bare minimum to not get rejected outright. It's not a stamp of authority. It's a hall pass that says "this email wasn't forged."
That's why you plateau at 40% inbox rate and can't figure out why.
The filter isn't broken. Your infrastructure was never built for this route.
So What Actually Works?
If you want to build real cold email infrastructure—not a gambling habit with a dashboard—your infrastructure has to pass three tests.
Miss one, and you're back on the hamster wheel.
1. It Must Be Sanctioned Infrastructure—Not a Resold License
Here's the difference no one explains:
A license is permission to log in. That's it. It's a username and password on someone else's system—often provisioned through Education, Non-Profit, or Developer tiers that were never intended for cold email.
You're not a customer. You're a loophole.
And loopholes get patched. Microsoft's compliance team runs audits. Google's abuse detection flags anomalous sending patterns. When they find you—and they will—your accounts don't get a warning. They get terminated.
Sanctioned infrastructure is different. It's purpose-built for outbound volume. The provider knows it exists. The provider allows it to exist. There's no audit coming because there's nothing to hide.
Ask your current vendor: "Is this a resold license, or is this infrastructure sanctioned for commercial outbound sending?" If they hesitate, you have your answer.
2. It Must Have MTA-Level Signing—Not Just Authentication
This is where most "deliverability experts" expose themselves.
SPF, DKIM, DMARC—that's authentication. It proves the email wasn't spoofed. It proves you control the domain. Congratulations: you've met the bare minimum to not get auto-rejected.
Authentication is table stakes. Every spammer on the planet has authentication.
MTA-level signing is different. When your email is signed at the Mail Transfer Agent level, the sending server itself cryptographically vouches for your traffic. It's not just "this email is from who it claims to be." It's "this email is verified communication from trusted infrastructure."
The difference shows up in how Email Security Gateways treat you. Mimecast, Proofpoint, Microsoft Defender—they all maintain internal reputation scores for sending MTAs. Authenticated-only traffic gets scrutinized. MTA-signed traffic gets deferred to.
Your warmup can't fake this. Your copy can't overcome it. Either your infrastructure signs at the MTA level, or you're competing in a category the filters already decided to suppress.
3. It Must Carry Provider-Level Authority on the Final Mile
This is the checkmate.
Your email can pass every filter, survive every gateway, and still die at the inbox because of one thing: the receiving provider doesn't trust your sending infrastructure.
Here's what happens on the "final mile" of delivery: Your email arrives at Microsoft's or Google's front door. Their system asks: "Do I know this sender? Is this infrastructure vouched for at the provider level—or is this just another authenticated stranger?"
Loophole accounts are strangers. Sure, you have an Outlook login. But having a Microsoft account doesn't mean Microsoft is vouching for your cold email. You have a login. You don't have authority. And the spam filter knows the difference.
Provider-level authority means the infrastructure you're sending from has a direct, sanctioned relationship with the major ESPs. Your traffic isn't sneaking through—it's expected.
This is the difference between knocking on the back door and being on the guest list.
The Bottom Line
When you buy a license, you're buying a liability—a raw credential you have to protect, warm up, and pray doesn't get banned.
When you buy sanctioned, signed, and authorized infrastructure, you're buying an asset—a verified pathway that was engineered to deliver.
One is gambling. The other is architecture.
The Solution
Introducing Keter Infra
We're not another account vendor. We don't resell logins. We don't exploit licensing loopholes and hope you don't notice.
We built something different.
Keter Infra is the world's first architected sending platform engineered for sanctioned, signed, and authorized cold email delivery.
What "Architected" Actually Means
Most vendors provision accounts. We engineered infrastructure.
The difference: every email that leaves our platform carries MTA-level signing as a baseline—not an upsell, not an add-on. It's baked into the architecture.
We didn't patch together loopholes and pray. We partnered directly with top-tier Microsoft CSP partners to build a proprietary delivery pathway that's designed for commercial outbound volume. The kind of sending that gets other vendors banned is what our infrastructure was built to handle.
The Seal on the Final Mile
Here's where the architecture pays off:
When your email hits the final checkpoint—the receiving provider's spam filter—it arrives bearing credentials that most cold emailers can't access. Our infrastructure carries provider-level authority at the point of delivery. Not just authentication. Not just a clean IP. A cryptographic seal that tells Microsoft Defender and Google's filters: this traffic is vouched for.
Competitors try to sneak in the back door.
We walk through the front—because we're on the list.
Built by Deliverability Engineers, Not Account Farmers
When you buy from a typical vendor, you're buying a login and a prayer.
When you buy from Keter, you're buying the accumulated knowledge of engineers who've spent years inside the deliverability trenches—consulting on high-volume campaigns, building relationships with ESPs, understanding exactly how reputation scoring works at the MTA level.
This isn't a side hustle reselling credentials. This is infrastructure designed by people who've seen what breaks—and engineered a system that doesn't.
You're not just getting accounts. You're getting architecture backed by expertise.
What This Means For You
No more rebuild cycles. No more praying your batch lasts past day 30. No more "deliverability hacks" that work until they don't.
You get:
- →Sanctioned infrastructure that won't get audited out of existence
- →MTA-level signing on every email, automatically
- →Provider-level authority on the final mile of delivery
- →Expert-backed architecture instead of raw logins
Your campaigns run. Your pipeline stays full. You stop gambling and start sending.
How It Works
Who This Is For
Keter is for serious operators:
- →Cold email agencies sending 30,000+ emails per month
- →Growth teams who value sending stability over short-term savings
- →Operators who want to deploy infrastructure and get back to closing deals
This is NOT for:
- — DIY tinkerers who love fiddling with DNS to save $5
- — Spammers looking for burner accounts
- — Anyone who wants the cheapest option
If you're still reading this, you're probably in the first category. You've wasted enough time on infrastructure that breaks. You're ready for something that actually works.
Ready to stop gambling?
Real Microsoft 365 licenses. Architected infrastructure. Cancel anytime.
No sales calls. No demos. Just infrastructure that works.
Common Questions
What makes this different from other inbox providers?
Most providers sell you a login on a loopholed license. We built sanctioned infrastructure from scratch with MTA-level signing and provider-level authority. Your traffic isn't sneaking through—it's expected.
How long until I can start sending?
72 hours. We handle domains, DNS, warmup protocols, and MTA-level signing. You get credentials to a ready-to-send environment.
Do you work with Instantly, Smartlead, etc?
Yes. We provide the infrastructure layer. You connect it to your existing sequencer via IMAP/SMTP. We handle the infrastructure; you handle the campaigns.
What happens if accounts get suspended?
Sanctioned infrastructure doesn't get mass-audited like loophole accounts. If any issues arise, our team handles resolution directly.