So with Mandrill going premium, what are some alternatives?

[Arty]

I see lots of suggestions above, but which of these does xenforo have integrations with?

All of them should support SMTP.

 

[Fred.]

seems changed, register today and i get 25k/month free

They still both options on the website. I'm not going to setup everything again. I will be fine with 12k emails.

 

[Nuno]

SparkPost is a good choice, but they lack (or I can see it) the option to forward bounces to a specific email address that we can get in mandrill, mailgun and sendgrid.

 

[ozzie]

SparkPost 100k/month free emails (10x more than mailgun + Mandrill Refugee guide): https://www.sparkpost.com/blog/mandrill-alternative-sparkpost-survival-guide/

SendGrid with 25k/month free emails partnered with google: https://sendgrid.com/partner/google

Sparkpost offers 100k/ month free and Sendgrid just 12k/ month. in addition to price, Sparkpost has way better deliverability

 

[AmieDurr]

SparkPost is a good choice, but they lack (or I can see it) the option to forward bounces to a specific email address that we can get in mandrill, mailgun and sendgrid.

Hi Nuno - I believe the Inbound Relay Webhooks is what you're looking for with SparkPost https://support.sparkpost.com/custo...nabling-inbound-email-relaying-relay-webhooks

Full discretion, I work with SparkPost. Happy to answer any questions you may have.

Thanks!
Amie

 

[TPerry]

http://mailinabox.email/ ?
I'm using it for more than a year now.

I'm more into rolling my own.. that way, if it breaks, I can fix it.
The one real exception I use is CentMin - but it doesn't do anything that I wasn't doing manually - so if it breaks somewhere I can either
A) Fix it myself
B) remove it and set up my stack stand-alone

 

[Jesepi]

I went with SendGrid - setup wasn't hard and I easily fit into the 12k emails per month free plan limit.

 

[ManagerJosh]

Sendgrid has 12,000/month free. (scroll to the bottom)

https://sendgrid.com/pricing

 

[Nuno]

I believe the Inbound Relay Webhooks is what you're looking for with SparkPost

Hi Amie

Thanks for your help.

I don't think its the same. They just let it set an email where bounced mails are forwarded. Then XenForo just pickup those emails (IMAP/pop) and parse then to set those accounts inactive.

If you could clarify would be great.

 

[BassMan]

Switched to SparkPost. Love it so far.

Does anybody knows how to configue for emails not to go to spam folder? When using Mandrill brefore that emails weren't going to spam folder.

 

[Jake B.]

Does anybody knows how to configue for emails not to go to spam folder?

Make sure your DKIM and SPF records are setup and making sure your domain isn't on a blacklist. Other than that there isn't anything I'm aware of that you can do, it's up to your provider.

That said...

Switched to SparkPost. Love it so far.

Why would you love it if your emails go to spam?

 

[BassMan]

Ah, when I post it I saw my DKIM is still not verified. Need to wait for DNS to refresh. I hope it will work after that.

Why would you love it if your emails go to spam?

I just love it, because it's similar to Mandrill I've been using before. Also 100k free emails. I believe this thing with email going to spam folder will fix soon. I recall the similar problem was with Mandrill too when I started using it.

 

[maszd]

Switched to SparkPost. Love it so far.

i cant register, some notice appear: Uh oh! Something went wrong. Please try in a few minutes or email support@sparkpost.comv
edit: not available for some country.

 

[eva2000]

Just got this blog post in an email:

http://blog.mandrill.com/important-changes-to-mandrill.html

Amazon SES maybe, I know if your volume is low enough they may not even charge your card.

been using Amazon SES for all my transactional email for 12+ months now. Switched from Mandrill before. I posted a list of Mandril alternatives on my forum for my users https://community.centminmod.com/posts/27425/. HTH folks here too.

 

[Nomy]

@AmieDurr Is it possible to hide origin IP from the header?

 

[rdn]

@AmieDurr Is it possible to hide origin IP from the header?

Amazon SES will do that.

 

[m1ne]

Changed again to SparkPost for 100k free, super easy setup and working great.

 

[BassMan]

i cant register, some notice appear: Uh oh! Something went wrong. Please try in a few minutes or email support@sparkpost.comv
edit: not available for some country.

Oh, I used to try Mailgun too. Check if it suits to you.

 

[Divvens]

Switched over to Mailgun, everything has been smooth until now!

 

[BassMan]

Ah, when I post it I saw my DKIM is still not verified. Need to wait for DNS to refresh. I hope it will work after that.

I'm using Cloudflare. Just to report, you need to add DKIM and SPF value to Cloudflare too if you wish to verify.