Important Changes to Mandrill • Hacker News Board

Re: Important Changes to Mandrill

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Post by Sebguer » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 8:12 PM UTC

etjossem wrote: post #2

$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 tried to sign up for Sendgrid and my account failed verification. I didn't (and still don't) want to use my company email- even though I offered to confirm that I'm a real person through it. Despite that, I got a canned response telling me to 'change my account email and update my company name' on the account, with a nice red banner telling me I 'failed provisioning'.

Especially irritating because I was just trying to troubleshoot a configuration issue for a shared customer.

Re: Important Changes to Mandrill

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Post by etjossem » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 8:35 PM UTC

rwhitman wrote: post #23

Seriously cannot trust a new product offering from anyone these days. Newsletters and transactional emails are not the same service. I signed up a client for transactional emails on Mandrill because the client was already locked into a newsletter vendor who doesn't support transactional emails. Now I need to explain to them why they need a second monthly newsletter vendor subscription? One that serves no purpose to t…

Hi - Eric from SendGrid here. We're the established company that invented the transactional category, and our transactional product is not going away anytime soon.

Our CEO Sameer just greenlit a deal for former Mandrill customers. Hopefully it helps ease the transition.

https://sendgrid.com/blog/hey-mandrill-customers-wed-love-th...

Straight to the discount: https://go.sendgrid.com/switch.html

Re: Important Changes to Mandrill

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Post by jrperina » Fri, Feb 26, 2016, 12:30 AM UTC

rwhitman wrote: post #23

Seriously cannot trust a new product offering from anyone these days. Newsletters and transactional emails are not the same service. I signed up a client for transactional emails on Mandrill because the client was already locked into a newsletter vendor who doesn't support transactional emails. Now I need to explain to them why they need a second monthly newsletter vendor subscription? One that serves no purpose to t…

Hi this is Joshua Perina, CEO of Elastic Email.

http://elasticemail.com has a very simliar pricing structure to Mandrill including 25000 emails per month free.

We've been around since 2010, are growing fast and have sent billions of emails. Plus, we love our customers. Mandrill refugees are welcome!

Re: Important Changes to Mandrill

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Post by jrperina » Fri, Feb 26, 2016, 12:32 AM UTC

etjossem wrote: post #2

$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. :)

25000 emails/month is free at Elastic Email.

Disclosure: I'm from EE. ;)