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Tell HN: Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month

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Re: Tell HN: Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month

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Post by cx42net »

jadbox wrote: post #87

Losing the inbound routes functionality completes wrecks my use-case for mailgun. I've been using it as a way to have business emails come through a custom domain and then routed to personal email addresses. It actually works well enough as with personal email you can respond "as" the custom domain. I have a tiny startup with a few users that I use the routing to move incoming email to also their own personal address…

Maybe https://improvmx.com would be what you are looking for? (I'm the owner, to be fully transparent). We offer up to 5 domains for free.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask! :)

Re: Tell HN: Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month

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Post by cx42net »

freedomben wrote: post #166
simon_weber wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ugh. I settled on Mailgun for this use case recently and now I'll have to switch. I used to use https://medium.com/@ashan.fernando/forwarding-emails-to-your... to do this cheaply via SES, but it was a pain to set up for new domains and had some odd behavior at times. https://improvmx.com was something else I came across, but I don't feel great trusting an unknown service with all my incoming mail. Zoho works and is f…

I have used both ImprovMX and ForwardEmail.net so can comment on them. ImprovMX has always worked great. I have used it for a handful of email addresses that all forward to my personal account. If your personal account is gmail it's also very easy to set up a "send as." I will definitely use this first next time I need something like this. ForwardEmail is indeed open source and works pretty good. It's a little more s…

Thank you for your post. I run ImprovMX and it's with pleasure that you liked using it :)

We are on the verge to release a sending feature and the decision from Mailgun to drop this came at a great surprise for us.

I always thought of Mailgun like the "unreachable competitor", kind of like "reach for the moon" type of target. But since they moved their forwarding feature to a costly paid plan, it's just like the moon vanished from our trajectory.

Anyway, I'm open to answer any questions if you have any. I also posted about ImprovMX here on HN today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22223783) and ready to answer all the questions there too.

Re: Tell HN: Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month

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Post by cx42net »

Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #244

Mh interesting. I was using that free tier to handle my family email addresses (personal and "group-like" email addresses,eg. Family@blah would direct to the entire family). What alternatives do I have to send and receive emails using my custom domain? I don't love the idea of paying for gsuite (too many features for what I need). But it's hard to think of email providers that allow me creating aliases / groups for m…

Hi,

Maybe https://improvmx.com might be the solution you are looking for? (I'm the owner, to be totally transparent).

Re: Tell HN: Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month

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Post by OJFord »

donmcronald wrote: post #46
sanj001 wrote: post #10

We used to be customers of Mailgun, but last month moved over to SES. Not that there's anything wrong with Mailgun, SES's pricing is far cheaper (60K free emails if you're sending from an AWS instance), and deliverability is on par. But SES is super basic. It's just an API, no fancy analytics. So of course, I built a small web app that "wraps around" SES, and gives you some insight into what you're sending, some pret…

Mailgun is (was) great for setting up a quick regex to process incoming mail. Maybe I'm misusing it, but I point all my non-email domains there and let this regex forward everything to my main domain: ^(abuse@|hostmaster@|postmaster@|webmaster@).* I'd gladly pay $.0008 per message x2 to cover both sides of that event because I have very little usage. By putting email receiving into a tier that costs over $400 per yea…

Ditto, I only just got the email about this today; so now I have The email doesn't even mention that 'email receiving' is switched off as a result of moving me to this plan! Pretty poor, IMO.

Re: Tell HN: Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month

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Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL »

cx42net wrote: post #263
Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #244

Mh interesting. I was using that free tier to handle my family email addresses (personal and "group-like" email addresses,eg. Family@blah would direct to the entire family). What alternatives do I have to send and receive emails using my custom domain? I don't love the idea of paying for gsuite (too many features for what I need). But it's hard to think of email providers that allow me creating aliases / groups for m…

Hi, Maybe https://improvmx.com might be the solution you are looking for? (I'm the owner, to be totally transparent).

Thanks, I tested your service and it works great, unfortunately there is nothing in between the free plan and the paid plan, I need the 25MB email size, but none of the other features.

Since this is to use personal emails for my family, I can't justify $10/month for the email forwarding part just for the attachment size.

Re: Tell HN: Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month

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Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL »

I opened a ticket with Mailgun kindly asking if there was any solution for people like me (small email senders, much less than 1000 email/month) who use their service for personal emailing, if they would provide a new plan that would be like Flex but include routing.

The response, aside the almost-automated one from the first ticket, has been that there might be an add on purchasable for the routing, in case anyone is interested.

I've always been happy to pay for my email where possible, the problem is that the pricing has never been balanced. $5/month PER ACCOUNT is excessive. For a family of 4, that's 20$/month for sending emails.

Mailgun is going to have the flex plan ($1/month basically) or the foundation plan, $35/month, nothing between those two. I hope they implement something for smaller companies and for single person

Re: Tell HN: Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month

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Post by NightlyDev »

WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #174
NightlyDev wrote: post #152

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I don't know about you, but I usually don't want to receive notification emails. Did you explicitly ask for it? Good. Is this some stupid notification that I won't care for and was enabled by default? Congratulations on getting flagged.

> Did you explicitly ask for it? Good That's what 'transactional' means... it's supposed to be used for the end or beginning of a transaction (reset password, receipt for a purchase, things like that...)

No, that is not what transactional mail means, you're wrong.

Things like friend requests are also transactional email by definition. So are those "you left your cart behind, want to complete the purchase?". That doesn't mean that you asked to receive it.

Re: Tell HN: Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month

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Post by cx42net »

Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #265
cx42net wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, Maybe https://improvmx.com might be the solution you are looking for? (I'm the owner, to be totally transparent).

Thanks, I tested your service and it works great, unfortunately there is nothing in between the free plan and the paid plan, I need the 25MB email size, but none of the other features. Since this is to use personal emails for my family, I can't justify $10/month for the email forwarding part just for the attachment size.

I can understand, yes. The reason we decided to allow 25Mb for paid plan is to avoid abuses.

Re: Tell HN: Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month

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Post by [deleted] »

cx42net wrote: post #262
freedomben wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have used both ImprovMX and ForwardEmail.net so can comment on them. ImprovMX has always worked great. I have used it for a handful of email addresses that all forward to my personal account. If your personal account is gmail it's also very easy to set up a "send as." I will definitely use this first next time I need something like this. ForwardEmail is indeed open source and works pretty good. It's a little more s…

Thank you for your post. I run ImprovMX and it's with pleasure that you liked using it :) We are on the verge to release a sending feature and the decision from Mailgun to drop this came at a great surprise for us. I always thought of Mailgun like the "unreachable competitor", kind of like "reach for the moon" type of target. But since they moved their forwarding feature to a costly paid plan, it's just like the moon…

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Re: Tell HN: Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month

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Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL »

cx42net wrote: post #268
Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, I tested your service and it works great, unfortunately there is nothing in between the free plan and the paid plan, I need the 25MB email size, but none of the other features. Since this is to use personal emails for my family, I can't justify $10/month for the email forwarding part just for the attachment size.

I can understand, yes. The reason we decided to allow 25Mb for paid plan is to avoid abuses.

Just to be clear, I'm happy to pay, makes me feel safer. It's just that the jump is way too big for me.

That being said, I really like your service and I hope will succeed! Cheers

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