Claudio
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Which is an article written by Sparkpost... Really?
If you can get statistics from another source would be much better to have a neutral comparison
So with Mandrill going premium, what are some alternatives?
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If you can get statistics from another source would be much better to have a neutral comparison
Fred.
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I know, That's why I don't really believe it. I'm using SendGridWhich is an article written by Sparkpost... Really?
If you can get statistics from another source would be much better to have a neutral comparison
I was thinking the same. If someone has stats from a neutral source it would be nice.
Raj4440
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Pepipost - Free SMTP alternative to Mandrill
http://www.pepipost.com/
- Free plan and send up to 25,000 emails each month. Free forever.
- No credit card required.
- DKIM is not required (Domain Verification: (a.) Meta Tag Validation, (b.) File Creation - System can verify the domain based on the presence of a file in the root directory of the domain.).
- Pay only for emails that are not opened by your customers.
* 3 Months Free Unlimited Transactional Emails + 25k emails per month free forever.
* Use the below code while signup with Pepipost.
Code:
MANDRILL-TO-PEPI
Great! This is probably the best FREE alternative for Mandrill.
http://www.pepipost.com/
- Free plan and send up to 25,000 emails each month. Free forever.
- No credit card required.
- DKIM is not required (Domain Verification: (a.) Meta Tag Validation, (b.) File Creation - System can verify the domain based on the presence of a file in the root directory of the domain.).
- Pay only for emails that are not opened by your customers.
* 3 Months Free Unlimited Transactional Emails + 25k emails per month free forever.
* Use the below code while signup with Pepipost.
Code:
MANDRILL-TO-PEPI
Great! This is probably the best FREE alternative for Mandrill.
Mr Lucky
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Same with Sparkpost, HOWEVER, it is recommended for best delivery to have this. (Along with abuse@ and postmaster@ being valid email addresses) It seems to me that lately this stuff is becoming more important as ISPs are toughening up against spammers.
All sorted now, Sparkpost looks good so far.
The Dark Wizard
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I switched my personal site to Sparkpost.
What was costing me 200+ with mandrill is now about 65 with them.
What was costing me 200+ with mandrill is now about 65 with them.
ichpen
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So played around with sendgrid today, meh, can't say I'm in love with it. I do like the templating engine they have. Things I don't like is the strange subdomain setup for whitelisting your domain (why oh why), more importantly they don't record email content like Mandrill so you can't sample outbound emails which I do on occasion to sniff out issues and the odd spammer. Also their stats are way behind and not even close to real-time.
Onto the next candidate.
Onto the next candidate.
Skylined
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You have the option to BCC every email that is sent.
BassMan
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BassMan
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Kintaro
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AFAIK only using API and not SMTP
BassMan
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Possible only via API. I'm in contact with them about that. No easy way to do it like it was in Mandrill.
Okenyon
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Do you know if they're adding this feature? How do you do it via API?
BassMan
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Not now.
Haven't find time to do it, but one way is with Google Chrome and via Postman extension.
The Dark Wizard
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Trying to see how much a Sparkpost addon for xF is going to be so it connect completely over the API.
Sparkpost seems to be one of the best ones in terms of pricing right now in the market.
If someone knows of one better that isn't amazon ses let me know.
Sparkpost seems to be one of the best ones in terms of pricing right now in the market.
If someone knows of one better that isn't amazon ses let me know.
ichpen
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I've yet to find one.
Moshe1010
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OK, so after trying all the services mentioned in this thread, I've received the best deliverability with SendGrid (by a factor of 3). I sent a newsletter to 15K emails (no bounce/failed domain - clean emails after major (semi-manual) filtering).
I send my newsletters with www.Sendy.Co and I check them with http://www.mail-tester.com/
Basically what increased my results by a huge factors was setting up SPF record. When I purchased a dedicated IP, it was a completely different story. I usually got 15-20% open emails, and with a dedicated IP I reached almost 70%, which is insane (same list, same emails, same newsletter structure/code).
Although Amazon SES is very cheap, most of my emails through them went into people's SPAM inbox, so I would not recommend them by any means.
I send my newsletters with www.Sendy.Co and I check them with http://www.mail-tester.com/
Basically what increased my results by a huge factors was setting up SPF record. When I purchased a dedicated IP, it was a completely different story. I usually got 15-20% open emails, and with a dedicated IP I reached almost 70%, which is insane (same list, same emails, same newsletter structure/code).
Although Amazon SES is very cheap, most of my emails through them went into people's SPAM inbox, so I would not recommend them by any means.
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