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Re: Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account

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Post by mcbobo » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 12:44 AM UTC

losvedir wrote: post #112

I have a proposal. I'll give all the transactional email competitors (mailgun, postmark, sparkpost, etc) a week to get their shit together and come up with a migration proposal for all of us moving away from Mandrill. I'm sure they're scrambling around trying to figure out how to take advantage of this ridiculous situation, and I bet a bunch of them are on HN. So how about this: 1. Any HN user trying to figure out wh…

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...

https://github.com/mcbobo/sendgrid-rails-smtp/blob/master/RE...

Re: Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account

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Post by giovanni_lucas » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:56 PM UTC

meirelles wrote: post #184

losvedir wrote: post #112

I have a proposal. I'll give all the transactional email competitors (mailgun, postmark, sparkpost, etc) a week to get their shit together and come up with a migration proposal for all of us moving away from Mandrill. I'm sure they're scrambling around trying to figure out how to take advantage of this ridiculous situation, and I bet a bunch of them are on HN. So how about this: 1. Any HN user trying to figure out wh…

Apparently after Mandrill announcement, the SparkPost raised the free tier to 100K/month (from 10K). Pretty generous limit. They have a very good reputation. https://www.sparkpost.com/pricing

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Re: Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account

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Post by giovanni_lucas » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 8:01 PM UTC

mcbobo wrote: post #211

losvedir wrote: post #112

I have a proposal. I'll give all the transactional email competitors (mailgun, postmark, sparkpost, etc) a week to get their shit together and come up with a migration proposal for all of us moving away from Mandrill. I'm sure they're scrambling around trying to figure out how to take advantage of this ridiculous situation, and I bet a bunch of them are on HN. So how about this: 1. Any HN user trying to figure out wh…

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... https://github.com/mcbobo/sendgrid-rails-smtp/blob/master/RE...

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