Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account

Bye Mandrill.

Time to fire up HN search for that product where you host your own Mandrill clone that relies on SES on the backend and is like 5 times cheaper. Anyone remember what it was?

Hmm: I guess I was thinking of https://sendy.co which is a replacement for MailChimp and not Mandrill.

This is too bad. Mandrill was a great product I've put several clients and my own apps on. None of these have any use for Mailchimp integration.

In December, they began to require the more strict DNS configs for new accounts... that was fine, but this latest change is horrendous in that it's giving business' who've used this service for years, an ultimatum... one that favors finding a new service.

It's going to be work one way or another so I guess I'll be moving mine and client apps over to a more stable provider.

Oh Man-drill . . . I wish they would have went with a lower limit on their free plan or even low cost plan that replaces current free plan. I use them on lots of client sites with low volume emails. This is going to take some time to sort out.

SendGrid's interface and dashboard are horrible.

Plus they don't store the message text for recent messages like Mandrill where it's viewable from the dashboard.

Any other options out there for free or low cost or with a decent dashboard.

We're actively working to improve the dashboard and standardize UX across SendGrid - that's the design team's big push this year.

Feedback would be very welcome. Shoot me an email (it's in my profile) with the details and I'll make sure it gets to the right people.