Mailboxes for a narrow candidate specialism

Will you be paying for a database that has gone stale by the time you search it? Not with this. The tiers are counted in mailboxes, so the money buys working SMTP and IMAP mailboxes you sign into and configure, rather than rows of candidate records that age the moment they are exported.

Each mailbox can be opened in a browser through the included webmail, which matters when you are checking replies between interviews rather than sitting at a desk with a mail client open. Your payment tracks how many separate addresses you can run, not how often you search or how many messages pass through them.

Warm-up and authentication checks sit alongside setup, so part of what you pay for is the groundwork that helps new addresses look established before you start writing to candidates. Nothing in the tiers promises a place in the inbox, and that expectation should shape what you are willing to spend.

Because the tiers are lifetime rather than monthly, the comparison you are making is between a one-off commitment at each mailbox count and whatever else your sourcing budget already covers. Map your outreach plan first, then read the published table against it.

Three tiers divide by mailbox count alone: Starter covers 5 mailboxes, Studio covers 15 and Floor covers 50. For a recruiter working one specialism, the split usually follows how many separate sending identities you want, such as a role-specific address per market or per seniority band, rather than how many candidates you plan to approach.

Standard SMTP and IMAP mailboxes mean each address works in the mail client you already use, while browser webmail keeps access simple. At the lower count you are running a small number of disciplined addresses; at the higher count you are coordinating several people or several campaigns at once.

The tiers do not add candidate records as the counts rise. A Floor tier gives you more mailboxes, not more people to write to, so moving up should be a decision about capacity and organisation. Check what each tier includes before you choose.

The worry you bring is stale data, and the honest answer is that LocalSMTP solves a different problem. It gives you mailboxes to write from, not a searchable pool of candidates. Your shortlist stays your own research, built from the sources you already trust in your specialism.

That said, owning the mailboxes changes how your sourcing work holds up. When the addresses are yours and configured properly, you are not renting access to someone else's sending platform, so an approach to a candidate is not tied to a subscription you might drop. The warm-up and authentication checks support that ownership.

Read the tiers as infrastructure for the outreach you already do by hand. If your method depends on searching a vendor database, this is not that product. If it depends on writing carefully to a small number of well-researched people, the fit is straightforward.

Start by counting the separate sending identities your specialism genuinely needs. A solo recruiter covering one role family may only need the Starter count. A boutique working several markets or seniority bands in parallel will feel the Studio or Floor count more usefully, because each market can have its own address.

Then compare the tiers on management effort rather than headline count. Fifteen mailboxes demand more oversight than five, and fifty demand more again, because someone has to watch replies, keep authentication in order and rotate addresses sensibly. The larger tier only pays off if you can actually run it.

Finally, price the whole picture. Anything beyond the mailbox count is sold on its own terms, so note what your chosen tier genuinely contains and what you would arrange elsewhere before you commit. The figures sit in the publisher's table on softwareprogrammer.app, so read it there rather than relying on a summary.