It's a cash grab, nothing more. There's people stuck without a developer and are forced to pay or get a broken site. Mailchimp knows this.
Important Changes to Mandrill
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Re: Important Changes to Mandrill
#32Do any other providers offer CSS inlining? This has been a great Mandrill feature. I have a number of domains all sending only few 100 emails/month, but the formatting is important. The cost jump to MailChimp monthly + Mandrill is tremendous.
sendgrid has transactional templates but it'll require more work
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#33$20 w/MailChimp Transactional: 25,000 mails $20 w/SendGrid: 100,000 mails So let me know if you're thinking about switching. I'd be happy to intro you to someone on our team. Disclosure: I'm with SendGrid. :)
The github php is confusing and there seems to be several kinds. And the developer there is an asshole. But I use it for now.
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#34$20 w/MailChimp Transactional: 25,000 mails $20 w/SendGrid: 100,000 mails So let me know if you're thinking about switching. I'd be happy to intro you to someone on our team. Disclosure: I'm with SendGrid. :)
I'm looking at switching to SendGrid.
2 questions, do you guys support handlebar in email templates? And do you still have the Microsoft Azure deal?
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#35So my move to shift with services like Easysendy Pro which connects to multiple SMTP relay services and manages all my newsletter and templates was worthful.
Also they will be connecting my subscribers to push and social notifications soon.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Beware that sendy comes with many backdoors though. Put it in a vm with a strong firewall.
Can you elaborate? I was planning to start using Sendy, but hiding it behind a firewall seems like it would break the signups, click tracking, open tracking, etc.
Compared to Sendy, I would suggest to use EasySendy Pro, I myself shifted to this service, having previously used Sendy.
Pro gives many independence of connecting multiple SMTP servers other than, Amazon SES. Also, it is hosted web application and have plans to integrate social and push services very shortly. This cross channel will help us connecting our end customers instantly and smoothly.
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#37MailChimp's pricing is best suited for companies that send a lot of bulk messages to a relatively constant number of users (subscribers). This includes weekly newsletters, catalogues, etc. In order to justify the cost, you need to send at least a couple of bulk emails to your entire userbase every month. Mandrill was best suited for companies that usually don't send anything to their entire userbase, only random noti…
Looking at this requirement for our company too, I started using easysendy pro email delivery vendor, who can connect with ant SMTP relay server providers.
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#38This was an unwelcome surprise.
We've loved using Mandrill at Open Exchange Rates[0], and enjoyed their simple "just works" approach. We've never trusted Mailchimp's primary product for some reason.
Now we'll be switching to a brand we can trust not to tell us "FYI we're shutting down your account in 45 days."
Personally feel disappointed that they seem to have transformed from a value-giver to a value-extractor.
Looking at Sendgrid - but open to any providers who wish to get in touch (email: cto@our domain).
Re: Important Changes to Mandrill
#39$20 w/MailChimp Transactional: 25,000 mails $20 w/SendGrid: 100,000 mails So let me know if you're thinking about switching. I'd be happy to intro you to someone on our team. Disclosure: I'm with SendGrid. :)
I'm looking at switching to SendGrid. 2 questions, do you guys support handlebar in email templates? And do you still have the Microsoft Azure deal?
We support substitution tags in email templates. In other words, you can replace -name- with the name of your customer - it works a lot like {{name}} in a handlebars template.
And yes, you can still sign up through the Microsoft Azure marketplace: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/partners/sendg...
Hope this helps!
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#40Mailgun, Sendgrid, Postmark are all alternatives. Mailgun is what I mostly use.
Does anyone have any experience with SparkPost? They seem attractive to switch from Mandrill because they also use handlebars as a templating language.