I feel like SparkPost should get a mention here: https://www.sparkpost.com edit (more details): The free tier allows up to 100,000 emails
Thanks for the mention jdstafford - I'm on the application development team at SparkPost - we'd love to have you give our service a try. We've got a Slack community up at http://slack.sparkpost.com - feel free to jump in and say hi!
No doubt. You all support CharmCityJS which is awesome. I was actually using mandrill for a side project and will be switching to sparkpost. Thanks for the reply.
Hello, Pepipost build on a very clear philosophy to encourage good senders and fight against SPAM, hence Pepis follow a strict on-boarding and delivery processes for both Paid and Free customers. This helped in achieving 100% deliverability with highest Inbox placement rate for all good senders.
[citation needed] No one gets 100% deliverability, and highest inbox rate for all senders requires serious proof.
We have 100% deliverability with clients who sends emails on double optin database. You are right for other senders there will be ups and downs in rate, based on the database.
Mailchimp has a made a terrible mistake. Firstly: Before, you could get "up to 12k emails per month" for free. Now, you get 2k free sends once (for dev), and then have to pay $9.95/mo. This all sounds actually great, so far (although, I think $4.95/mo would have been a better bottom-tier plan - the goal is to get rid of users that don't pay anything but send 12k emails per month). $9.95/mo is affordable to any startu…
Couldn't agree more. I was sending a couple of thousand emails a month with mandrill for free. Would have happily paid 9.95 a month. But when I got their email, and read their blogpost, it was completely unclear what I had to pay. The message I got from them was, "sorry, don't want your business." With this, and Kimono, in one week, I am moving to amamzon ses, though it has very few reporting features. Sorry Sendgrid…
100% agree. I'm in the exact same boat. I'm moving to SES as well for the same reasons.
I want to use AWS SES, but the lack of a dashboard (like Mandrill had) is a dealbreaker. Quick strawpoll: are others in that boat too?
Amazon is the safest bet for me given their resources and reputation. For my uses I can live with their rudimentary dashboard for now knowing they'll likely improve it over time. My service sends about 1500 emails a day.
Thanks for the mention jdstafford - I'm on the application development team at SparkPost - we'd love to have you give our service a try. We've got a Slack community up at http://slack.sparkpost.com - feel free to jump in and say hi!
No doubt. You all support CharmCityJS which is awesome. I was actually using mandrill for a side project and will be switching to sparkpost. Thanks for the reply.
I'd stay away - far away - from sparkpost. We've been a volume user with sendgrid for years and recently started a test with sparkpost (well before the Mandrill thing), thinking it would be a good backup solution over our inhouse alternative. Suddenly this weekend, we're getting 403 rejections thru the sparkpost API. We were thinking it was an issue on our side and spent some time verifying it wasn't us. When we asked Sparkpost customer support to look into it, they eventually came back saying our Sparkpost account was suspended by their compliance team -- this with no indication or warning (and with us sending very low volume to known-good users in this test). fyi, our sendgrid reputation score is >98 and blacklist-free. We know how to maintain a good sender rep. Sparkpost CSE says their Compliance team is overwhelmed and maybe we'll hear back in a couple of days. Are you kidding me? We had high hopes for Sparkpost until this. Now, I can't see how we can possibly trust them, which is ironic to say the least.
Everybody talk about Mailgun, but there are other valuable alternatives: Sendgrid, AWS SES, Postmark. At Redokun we use Postmark. It proved to have a good deliverability and the UI is very good.
Postmark is super unreliable for large volume - their servers are down periodically and their email is periodically delayed for hours. It still does not support multiple admin roles per account.
You know what else is super unreliable? The account you are posting under. Enjoy your hellban!
Hey, I wrote a quick module / class for Rails for Mandrill Users trying to go to SendGrid using their SMTP API module. It's far from perfect or done, but it's something to get going...