Important Changes to Mandrill • Hacker News Board

Re: Important Changes to Mandrill

#11

Post by homero » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 1:08 AM UTC

Nice way to throw us under the bus! Not even a grandfather. Spending hours hunting down api keys and installing new libraries. Thanks!

Re: Important Changes to Mandrill

#12

Post by homero » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 1:09 AM UTC

jrs235 wrote: post #7

etjossem wrote: post #2

$20 w/MailChimp Transactional: 25,000 mails $20 w/SendGrid: 100,000 mails So let me know if you're thinking about switching. I'd be happy to intro you to someone on our team. Disclosure: I'm with SendGrid. :)

It's more expensive than that for MailChimp, if I understand things correctly. On top of $20 for 25,000 emails you have to have a paid monthly MailChimp account. Or did I misunderstand something?

Yeah their paid accounts are horrific

Re: Important Changes to Mandrill

#13

Post by homero » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 1:09 AM UTC

I'm using sendgrid for transactional. Sendy + ses for marketing. Costs me cents per month.

Re: Important Changes to Mandrill

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Post by homero » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 1:10 AM UTC

homero wrote: post #13

I'm using sendgrid for transactional. Sendy + ses for marketing. Costs me cents per month.

Beware that sendy comes with many backdoors though. Put it in a vm with a strong firewall.

Re: Important Changes to Mandrill

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Post by dceddia » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 1:10 AM UTC

20years wrote: post #9

Mailgun, Sendgrid, Postmark are all alternatives. Mailgun is what I mostly use.

For the people like me who were happily using Mandrill's free plan and would like to continue to do that:

- Mailgun offers 10,000 emails/month for free

- SendGrid offers 12,000 emails/month for free

- Postmark gives you 25,000 free emails when you sign up, but they start costing money when those run out

Re: Important Changes to Mandrill

#16

Post by nish1500 » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 1:17 AM UTC

This is absurd. In my case, the monthly price just went up 8X.

Time to explore other options.

Re: Important Changes to Mandrill

#17

Post by dceddia » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 1:19 AM UTC

homero wrote: post #14

homero wrote: post #13

I'm using sendgrid for transactional. Sendy + ses for marketing. Costs me cents per month.

Beware that sendy comes with many backdoors though. Put it in a vm with a strong firewall.

Can you elaborate? I was planning to start using Sendy, but hiding it behind a firewall seems like it would break the signups, click tracking, open tracking, etc.

Re: Important Changes to Mandrill

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Post by mangeletti » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 1:24 AM UTC

homero wrote: post #13

I'm using sendgrid for transactional. Sendy + ses for marketing. Costs me cents per month.

I'm curious; why don't you use SES for transactional also?

Re: Important Changes to Mandrill

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Post by mr_than » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 1:38 AM UTC

Do any other providers offer CSS inlining? This has been a great Mandrill feature. I have a number of domains all sending only few 100 emails/month, but the formatting is important. The cost jump to MailChimp monthly + Mandrill is tremendous.

Re: Important Changes to Mandrill

#20

Post by Fogest » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 1:48 AM UTC

etjossem wrote: post #2

$20 w/MailChimp Transactional: 25,000 mails $20 w/SendGrid: 100,000 mails So let me know if you're thinking about switching. I'd be happy to intro you to someone on our team. Disclosure: I'm with SendGrid. :)

Making the switch now. I send less usually 10-20 emails per month using Mandrill, no way I am paying their absurd costs and getting Mailchimp just for that. Sendgrid here I come.