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Mailgun Acquires Mailjet

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Re: Mailgun Acquires Mailjet

#61

I hope this means the MJML project was part of the acquisition reason (it underlies their builder) and won’t see its support reduce.

MJML will definitely continue to be prioritized at both Mailjet and Mailgun as it's a big part of our product and brand. For those who don't know MJML: https://mjml.io

Great news. Thank you!

Re: Mailgun Acquires Mailjet

#62
post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So company employees should send you handcrafted "Please confirm your email address by clicking this link" transaction emails?

Companies should stop asking for my email address at all, ever. I use email to talk to friends and relatives. I am not interested in commercial email. I don't like my town being decorated with advertisements, either. My inbox is full of rubbish ads - it overwhelms the stuff I care about, and makes my life sadder.

Are you confusing marketing emails with transactional emails? What about order confirmations? Password reset emails?

Re: Mailgun Acquires Mailjet

#63
post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So company employees should send you handcrafted "Please confirm your email address by clicking this link" transaction emails?

Companies should stop asking for my email address at all, ever. I use email to talk to friends and relatives. I am not interested in commercial email. I don't like my town being decorated with advertisements, either. My inbox is full of rubbish ads - it overwhelms the stuff I care about, and makes my life sadder.

Start using a wildcard and then you can create promos-company@yourdomain.com

Re: Mailgun Acquires Mailjet

#64
Why do all of these mail services look like spam engines?

I know several companies that seems to shop for these mail services. Someone spams me though a service like this, I complain, next week I'm getting email from the same sender but through a different spam service.

You email/spam service providers need to create a clearing house for bad customers, because bad actors just move around and change names and always find a new home to land in.

Re: Mailgun Acquires Mailjet

#66
post #31

Fair warning, just this week Mailgun locked my account due to random "spam" detection. We only send unique hand created emails and have only sent to about 200 unique users over the last few months. Because our account is locked, our customers cannot contact us at all and we can't reach out to them. It's been 3 days and our support messages have gone unanswered. Hopefully this gets cleared up real soon. I kind of feel…

Can you email your ticket number to josh@mailgun.com and I'll take a look? This definitely isn't typical and I'll get this resolved immediately for you.

Re: Mailgun Acquires Mailjet

#67

I hope this means the MJML project was part of the acquisition reason (it underlies their builder) and won’t see its support reduce.

We're really excited about MJML. Creating messages that render properly on all email clients is challenging and MJML solves the problem in a very developer friendly way. You should expect MJML and the Passport editor to be integrated into Mailgun in the near future!

Re: Mailgun Acquires Mailjet

#68
post #31

Fair warning, just this week Mailgun locked my account due to random "spam" detection. We only send unique hand created emails and have only sent to about 200 unique users over the last few months. Because our account is locked, our customers cannot contact us at all and we can't reach out to them. It's been 3 days and our support messages have gone unanswered. Hopefully this gets cleared up real soon. I kind of feel…

I had a worse experience with mailgun that almost made me lose my job. Our domain was blacklisted for sending spam. I think mailgun's server was hacked at that time because our Api Key was kept securely using the best practices. I dont want to use Sendgrid because of bloated and slow UI but I had no choice.

Re: Mailgun Acquires Mailjet

#69

Why do all of these mail services look like spam engines? I know several companies that seems to shop for these mail services. Someone spams me though a service like this, I complain, next week I'm getting email from the same sender but through a different spam service. You email/spam service providers need to create a clearing house for bad customers, because bad actors just move around and change names and always f…

I don't know about the acquiree but as a mail admin I've found Mailgun to be unresponsive to abuse emails and an unrepentant spammer. Block them and move on.

Re: Mailgun Acquires Mailjet

#70

I've heard varying degrees of feedback on Thoma Bravo - but I'm curious what the general consensus is? It appears, from the outside, that they allow their investment targets to remain autonomous - but I'm curious how hands off (or on) they are.

Thoma Bravo has been a great partner for us. Our management team has maintained a high level of autonomy in driving the vision and strategy of the company including the decision to pursue this acquisition. There is a tremendous network current/past companies with a wealth of experience that we've been able to draw from that already has proven to be incredibly valuable as we continue to scale the company.
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