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Mailgun Acquires Mailjet

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Re: Mailgun Acquires Mailjet

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Post by thaeli »

heydenberk wrote: post #6

Semi-related: If you are in the market for an email provider for transactional emails, I encourage you to use Postmark. It's a developer focused company with a simple pricing model and great documentation, and their IPs tend to have great reputation scores. I don't work for them, but I switched from one of these two and am very happy I did.

Yet another happy Postmark customer here. They're the only transactional email provider I've found who keeps full text logs of your outgoing mails (for a couple weeks) - in a complex "Enterprise" environment I cannot overstate how helpful having one place that always logs the mail that actually went out to the customer is. No matter what the sending system may have logged or failed to log.

Also their deliverability is excellent and when there are deliverability issues, it's easy to find exactly why. The logs also surface the info we need to prove what actually happened during a nondelivery event. ("Here is the actual log line from your MX server rejecting the mail we sent.")

For small near-zero-budget projects, I still use Amazon SES. It's Good Enough for most uses and nobody else with even decent deliverability can touch them on price. All my hobby projects combined are billing well under $1/mo for SES usage.

SES is also decent for some very specific inbound email use cases. If you need to receive email from some system that doesn't have a real webhooks type outbound API, but does have robust email notifications, and send the body to a Lambda function that parses it and makes the API call that system ought to have just made in the first place.. SES is perfect. (And unfortunately all the major systems I work with that process inbound email are stuck needing an IMAP connection - if I was able to use an API based inbound email receipt scheme, and needed to receive mail from various domains, I'd consider Postmark for the better diagnostics and logging.)

Re: Mailgun Acquires Mailjet

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Post by sam1r »

codezero wrote: post #39
HEHENE wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A semi-interesting story, we used Postmark at my last company. When we signed up they offered something like 50,000 free credits. Then if we setup DKIM they offered another 50,000 or so credits. Then about three months later they sent us a survey and offered us another 75,000 credits if we filled it out. All in all before we had even launched our application they had thrown nearly 200,000 free email credits at us. We…

I was waiting for the bad news, it’s refreshing to see this retention tactic pay off because of the quality of the product. That’s killer. You can probably get a future discount by offering a testimonial/case study :)

Great assist. Just wanted to say that I am interested in free Postmark credits.

Re: Mailgun Acquires Mailjet

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Post by sam1r »

pascal07 wrote: post #49
heydenberk wrote: post #6

Semi-related: If you are in the market for an email provider for transactional emails, I encourage you to use Postmark. It's a developer focused company with a simple pricing model and great documentation, and their IPs tend to have great reputation scores. I don't work for them, but I switched from one of these two and am very happy I did.

Hey everyone, I'm the product manager at Postmark, and it's great to see all these stories. I'd love to find out a bit more about how y'all use the product. I can definitely send some T-shirts and other swag your way as well. If you're interested in telling your story, reach out to support and tell them you came from this thread! https://postmarkapp.com/support

Awesome how active your team is!

Re: Mailgun Acquires Mailjet

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Post by jamesponddotco »

anothaone wrote: post #56
jadbox wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What did you change to?

Postmark. Very happy with their service so far.

Another vote for Postmark here. They are more expensive, but worth every penny.

I do wish they would let you choose the region where the server is located though, like Mailgun does.

Re: Mailgun Acquires Mailjet

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Post by 1123581321 »

jrodom wrote: post #67
1123581321 wrote: post #26

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!

Thank you, Josh!

Re: Mailgun Acquires Mailjet

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Post by alexis_fr »

krn wrote: post #19

Over time I learned to prefer European B2B tech companies, because they strive to be profitable from the beginning, take less VC money, are more stable, predictable, cost-conscious, engineering-focused, and, therefore, often much less likely to be acquired: Adyen, MessageBird, KeyCDN, OVH, Hetzner, INWX, Mailbox. It's a bit sad to take Mailjet out of this list, even if it's considered a success for the company.

Actually, this is a very helpful feedback for any company. And funnily enough, would Europe’s difficulty in creating a funding ecosystem be the key point that ...reinforces their startups?
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