Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

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Post by old-gregg » Fri, May 13, 2011, 6:31 PM UTC

Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"
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Re: Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

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Post by smokeyj » Fri, May 13, 2011, 6:56 PM UTC

An encrypted mailbox service would be nice, considering our privacy is pimped out by the big guys.

Re: Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

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Post by cagenut » Fri, May 13, 2011, 7:03 PM UTC

hosted/saas james?

http://wiki.apache.org/james/

Re: Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

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Post by maneesh1 » Fri, May 13, 2011, 7:04 PM UTC

Congrats guys. I beleive this is going to be huge, especially for enterprises.

Re: Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

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Post by old-gregg » Fri, May 13, 2011, 7:06 PM UTC

cagenut wrote: post #3

hosted/saas james? http://wiki.apache.org/james/

Far more complicated than that. You won't scale james to millions+ of mailboxes as we're planning to :)

Re: Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

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Post by rishi » Fri, May 13, 2011, 7:06 PM UTC

"Let your users leave comments, answer simple questions, upload data as attachments and interact with each other using their email clients."

Q: So a customer can reply back to one of your emails and it turns into a comment?

thanks

Re: Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

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Post by old-gregg » Fri, May 13, 2011, 7:07 PM UTC

rishi wrote: post #6

"Let your users leave comments, answer simple questions, upload data as attachments and interact with each other using their email clients." Q: So a customer can reply back to one of your emails and it turns into a comment? thanks

With a little bit of coding on your part - yes.

Re: Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

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Post by mp3jeep01 » Fri, May 13, 2011, 7:08 PM UTC

For a over a month now we've been using the service, and it's been smooth sailing without a hitch - really impressed and interested to see what these guys do next

Re: Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, May 13, 2011, 7:09 PM UTC

smokeyj wrote: post #2

An encrypted mailbox service would be nice, considering our privacy is pimped out by the big guys.

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Re: Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

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Post by staunch » Fri, May 13, 2011, 7:13 PM UTC

Twilio is awesome because setting up Asterisk and acquiring phone numbers is a big pain in the butt and requires knowledge most web developers don't have.

Sending email isn't hard. Amazon SES solved that.

Receiving email is just slightly more work, but still well within the comfort zone of most developers:

  $ cat /etc/aliases
  comment_reply: "|/path/to/email_handler"