Bye Bye Mandrill. I have been a very happy customer for several years, but your actions will now leave me with many hours of unwanted work. This is unacceptable, so I'm moving to SendGrid (probably).
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
#52Oh 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 opti…
If you want to enjoy SendGrid deliverability but a different interface, check us out: sendwithus.com
We're designed as a higher level on top of email deliverability, offering some pretty rich features (email storing, great A/B testing, drip campaigns...)
Re: Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account
#53Re: Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
SendGrid is competitively priced - as @jamestanderson mentioned, $20 goes twice as far. Mailgun doesn't offer a marketing product at all, and I am not sure if they provide the 24/7 support we do.
At the 40k+ volume levels, you're also going to get a complimentary dedicated IP, which means better deliverability. You can get that at Mailgun too, but it's a $59 surcharge every month.
Finally, the InboxTrail comparison posted elsewhere in this thread shows Mailgun getting flagged as spam 37.5% of the time.
Re: Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think NOW it's the time to build that feature, ASAP. cc @etjossem
Yeah absolutely if SendGrid builds this functionality and creates a 'Welcome Mandrill customers' page, then you guys will get a whole heap of new signups right away!
Agree 100%.. this is an insane move by Mandrill and if SendGrid can at least show email subjects they will reap the benefits imo !
Re: Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account
#56For folks looking for alternatives, there's a good list here with some indicators on the quality of delivery as well.
Re: Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account
#57As a long time user... What the hell are they smoking over there. Edit... Just read the full thing. I'm now a very fucking angry customer. They are destroying basically all of the value their product had for me. I was raging and ready to comment on their blog post, but oh look they have comments turned off, how convenient, let's ignore our customers further. Dear Mailchimp... Fuck you. Since there is fuck all chance…
FWIW We're switching to Sparkpost (I'm not affiliated with Sparkpost). They do the transactional email for the big dogs like Twitter, PayPal, LinkedIn, etc and have a pretty simple UI. Just throwing that out there for all the fellow Mandrill refugees.
Signed up for a couple services to check them out... sparkpost is looking like a top candidate so far.
Re: Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account
#58As a long time user... What the hell are they smoking over there. Edit... Just read the full thing. I'm now a very fucking angry customer. They are destroying basically all of the value their product had for me. I was raging and ready to comment on their blog post, but oh look they have comments turned off, how convenient, let's ignore our customers further. Dear Mailchimp... Fuck you. Since there is fuck all chance…
To save you some time, we have a blog post covering the criteria to use: http://blog.sendwithus.com/which-email-service-provider-shou...
I'm biased (as the cofounder), but I strongly believe that you should treat email delivery as a commodity and use a product like Sendwithus.com on top of it.
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#59I can't believe this. I use their free plan because I send a minimal amount of email per month. Absolutely no way I'll consider going to $20 per month for my basic needs. I'll probably go ahead and switch newsletter services over to something else too. Who knows when they may get a wild hair and do away with their free account there too.
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#60As an aside from the topic at hand, this article is 3 hours old and has 52 points. Why is this hidden on the 11th page?