Ask HN: What is your startup email solution?

6 pointsrush-tea12y ago7 comments

I am curious to know what you guys use for your startup email solution.

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.

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thibaut_barrere12y ago

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.

pestaa12y ago

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.

thibaut_barrere12y ago

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.

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lsiunsuex12y ago

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...

codegeek12y ago

I asked a similar question recently

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5634319

rush-teaOP12y ago

Thanks for the info. I searched earlier before post, but I can not find it. Not sure how HN search engine actually works... :(

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Ask HN: What is your startup email solution?

6 pointsrush-tea12y ago7 comments

I am curious to know what you guys use for your startup email solution.

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.

7 comments

thibaut_barrere12y ago

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.

pestaa12y ago

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.

thibaut_barrere12y ago

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.

1 more reply

lsiunsuex12y ago

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...

codegeek12y ago

I asked a similar question recently

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5634319

rush-teaOP12y ago

Thanks for the info. I searched earlier before post, but I can not find it. Not sure how HN search engine actually works... :(

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