Bye Mandrill, Hi Mailgun
Do you prefer Mailgun over SendGrid for any particular reason (both offer free accounts)?
Never tried Sendgrid but will check it out.
Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account
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Re: Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account
#42$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. :)
Is it possible to have more than 300 templates per account? We're offering custom transactional email templates to our clients and might exceed this limit. Definitely looking at moving to SendGrid after this announcement.
Previewing content of the last 7 days of sent emails would also be a bonus.
Re: Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any good examples on using templating with variables in SendGrid? The docs are not very clear on that (you call them tags is that it?). I think you can get a lot of users if you show one to one mapping of API and common processes between Mandrill and SendGrid.
A few years ago I went with Mandrill over SendGrid because of the lack of templates. I wanted designers/marketers to be able to edit the templates and with sendgrid that was really difficult. A couple years later and you guys caught up and then some. Excited to come back after this Mandrill change!
I am in the same boat. Glad to also give SendGrid a look!
Re: Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Postmark ( https://postmarkapp.com )
Another price comparison. $20 w/Postmark: 13,000 mails $20 w/SendGrid: 100,000 mails Postmark also doesn't offer the option to upgrade to a dedicated IP later on, which many larger companies find is better for deliverability. Full disclosure: I'm a SendGrid engineer.
Can you talk about why SendGrid over MailGun?
Re: Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account
#45I wonder in what Venn diagram do the sections of "People who need newsletters" and "People who do transactional emails" overlap that much that this really makes sense?
There's also a blogpost about this by the founder: http://blog.mailchimp.com/important-changes-to-mandrill/ (side note: comments seem to be open there but when posting there, first I got a "you are posting too quickly", then trying again it went into moderation)
Re: Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account
#46$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. :)
One advantage that Mandrill has over SendGrid is the ability to see the content of emails (run a web agency so it helps a lot with troubleshooting for our clients).
We're working on adding that feature into Mailgun now. We store the content for compliance review and scheduled sends.
Disclosure: I lead product development @ Mailgun.
Re: Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account
#47$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. :)
Is it possible to have more than 300 templates per account? We're offering custom transactional email templates to our clients and might exceed this limit. Definitely looking at moving to SendGrid after this announcement. Previewing content of the last 7 days of sent emails would also be a bonus.
Check us out (Sendwithus.com, yc w14)
Unlimited templates, and you can swap out backends (SendGrid, SparkPost, others)
Re: Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account
#48$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. :)
One advantage that Mandrill has over SendGrid is the ability to see the content of emails (run a web agency so it helps a lot with troubleshooting for our clients).
We do this (Sendwithus.com) -- not only see email with all personalization, but see it on the device a customer used (was the link really broken on an iPhone?)
Re: Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account
#49$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. :)
Any good examples on using templating with variables in SendGrid? The docs are not very clear on that (you call them tags is that it?). I think you can get a lot of users if you show one to one mapping of API and common processes between Mandrill and SendGrid.
Also check us out: https://www.sendwithus.com/docs/templating
Our template engine (Jinja) is the most advanced of any email platform out there.
Re: Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account
#50Hey folks, cofounder of Sendwithus.com here -- we're a layer on top of Mandrill, SendGrid, Sparkpost, etc. You can hot swap backends with us, making a change trivial. We're also experts on all these platforms so can advice cost vs support.
Hit our support team (support@sendwithus.com) if you have any questions, we have a super rich feature set that goes beyond what these products provide.
Happy to discuss discounts for folks making the switch to us, email me: matt@sendwithus.com