Ask HN: Best provider for sending transactional emails?

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Post by ollieco » Thu, Jul 27, 2017, 5:51 AM UTC

I am building a web app that will send SEO reports via email and I am on the lookout for a decent provider to deliver emails.

I understand that Amazon SES is the cheapest when it comes to sending emails. I am not sure how good their email deliverability is.

Other options are Postmark (somewhat pricey), Mailgun and Sendgrid. I would like to know which email providers are preferred by the HN community.

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#2

Post by boyanpro » Thu, Jul 27, 2017, 6:14 AM UTC

I can't which one is the best. But we use MailGun and we are not happy with it. We will probably switch to Postmark.

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#3

Post by pvsukale3 » Thu, Jul 27, 2017, 6:53 AM UTC

Try Spark post. Their free plan is good.

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Post by bdibs » Thu, Jul 27, 2017, 7:02 AM UTC

boyanpro wrote: post #2

I can't which one is the best. But we use MailGun and we are not happy with it. We will probably switch to Postmark.

Why aren’t you happy with MailGun? I’m a customer and I haven’t had any issues with it.

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Post by bharani_m » Thu, Jul 27, 2017, 7:06 AM UTC

pvsukale3 wrote: post #3

Try Spark post. Their free plan is good.

Stay away from Sparkpost. They will put your account on hold without any warning (and for no good reason) and then their support team takes ~2 days to reply.

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Post by kc10 » Thu, Jul 27, 2017, 7:25 AM UTC

boyanpro wrote: post #2

I can't which one is the best. But we use MailGun and we are not happy with it. We will probably switch to Postmark.

I also never faced an issue with MailGun, though I mostly use smtp not their http api.

Is there any specific issue you ran into?

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Post by RaspyRoe » Thu, Jul 27, 2017, 8:16 AM UTC

bharani_m wrote: post #5

pvsukale3 wrote: post #3

Try Spark post. Their free plan is good.

Stay away from Sparkpost. They will put your account on hold without any warning (and for no good reason) and then their support team takes ~2 days to reply.

We use mailgun but there are a bunch of wierdly dropped emails. Am I to hope that would change with something like Postmark if not with Sparkpost? The fact is that we always use the lowest tier of paid plan since our volume is not too big and dont feel that we are an "important" user on a lot of services.

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Post by tokn » Thu, Jul 27, 2017, 8:24 AM UTC

Never had a problem with SES deliverability personally. You do get the odd end-user email address on the suppression list but that's not often. I've only used their SMTP set up though, no SDKs or anything like that

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#9

Post by maxehmookau » Thu, Jul 27, 2017, 8:30 AM UTC

I'm a fan of SendGrid. Never had a problem.

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#10

Post by jst90 » Thu, Jul 27, 2017, 9:00 AM UTC

What volume are you looking at?