Ask HN: What is your startup email solution?
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I'm using Mandrill for transactional email, and will most likely start using Mailjet for email campaigns.
I believe that Mandrill etc give a better deliverability compared to SES.
I believe that Mandrill etc give a better deliverability compared to SES.
Can you please share more of your experience regarding deliverability of various services? I'm somewhat surprised to hear SES can be surpassed in this department.
I only tested SendGrid and Mandrill for transactional email.
I switched off SendGrid after seeing quite a bit of gmail owners got their email sent into spam (but I believe they fixed the issue).
I use DKIM/SPF with Mandrill and nobody mentioned a spam issue since then.
On SES: I cannot find back the precise article I was thinking about right now (a benchmark if I remember well), these are just my memories.
I switched off SendGrid after seeing quite a bit of gmail owners got their email sent into spam (but I believe they fixed the issue).
I use DKIM/SPF with Mandrill and nobody mentioned a spam issue since then.
On SES: I cannot find back the precise article I was thinking about right now (a benchmark if I remember well), these are just my memories.
I use SES with DKIM and SPF. It's fast, cheap and I've never had a single email go to spam.
We were using campaignmonitor.com until we found out about sendy.co
Sendy uses SES to send the emails on our behalf - so far so good - we do a weekend update to about 1500 address (so far) and it's worked quite well.
Someday I'll script something to dumb the current user email list into sendy so I don't have to export it to csv and reimport it every weekend...
Sendy uses SES to send the emails on our behalf - so far so good - we do a weekend update to about 1500 address (so far) and it's worked quite well.
Someday I'll script something to dumb the current user email list into sendy so I don't have to export it to csv and reimport it every weekend...
I asked a similar question recently
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5634319
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5634319
Thanks for the info. I searched earlier before post, but I can not find it. Not sure how HN search engine actually works... :(
I am currently considering moving to AWS, and possibly using their Amazon SES. However I see that there are other alternatives like mailgun.com or sendgrid.com
what would be the advantage of using 3rd party solution vs in house Amazon SES? I see that the pricing is pretty similar and I am leaning towards using SES, but I would like to hear opinions.
Thank you.