So with Mandrill going premium, what are some alternatives?

[Jesepi]

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.

 

[BoostN]

I use SES for sendy newsletter sending, so I'm going to go ahead and configure to use SES for forum emails as well.

Might as well give it a shot... I need to setup the bounce handler though, as I've already got a server error due to a email being invalid.

On Edit:

I've having trouble verifying one of my forums as it's on a cPanel server and it doesn't seem to like my CNAME records..

It will not send and log a server error .

More testing...

 

[SneakyDave]

I use mandrill quite a bit, and haven't received notice if this, so thanks for the heads up.

So basically, it looks like if you used free mandrill, you'll now have to pay a minimum of $20USD just to keep using it.

 

[m1ne]

Crap.. I rely on Mandrill a lot.
As for alternatives, sendgrid starts at $9.95, mailjet at $7.95, sendinblue is free for 9,000 emails, mailgun is free for 10,000, elasticemail is free for 25,000 (probably what I'll use).

 

[Abracadaniel]

@Jesepi
How about mailgun? Using it for a year already with no issues.
It has totally the same free 10k messages/month: https://www.mailgun.com/

 

[Liam W]

Makes me glad I decided to create my own mail server on a $90/yr VPS...

Works well, actually...

 

[Arty]

Just got email about it as well.

With 100-200 emails a week it doesn't make sense to pay for commercial service. Using my own servers is not a good idea because IP was blacklisted at some point (someone got hold of my sister's mail account and sent lots of spam over few days before it got noticed), so I will have to look for alternative.

Mailgun seems like a good service.

 

[Optic]

I rather enjoyed Mandrill's free offering.

Going to give SES a go.

 

[rdn]

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

 

[Daniel Deschamps]

Try using pepipost. Its a good option for Mandrill. they give free mails every month, like 25k free mails. www.pepipost.com

 

[Ionut Neagu]

This is sad for people like me who were using just Mandrill and no Mailchimp. Both SendinBlue and Mailjet offer free emails as well, here are more details : http://www.codeinwp.com/blog/mandrill-alternatives/

 

[Carla Birch]

Moving my server email to Mailgun, it's a shame Mandrill have done this and from the email i got it's a paid add-on to mailchimp, so you need the paid basic mailchimp than whatever the maildrill add-on costs. For how much email i send/get mailgun will do me fine and makes sure my email gets to people fine.

 

[Jake B.]

$20USD just to keep using it.

$30. You have to have a paid monthly MailChimp account, then buy your emails in blocks of $25k for $20/mo

 

[BassMan]

Just set up Pepipost. Works fine. 25.000 free emails.

 

[Jake B.]

SES is only $0.10/1k emails, compared to now $0.80/1k emails with Mandrill

 

[Nomy]

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

 

[Fred.]

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

I signed up for Sendgrid yesterday and I only have 12k/month free emails? Still more than enough for me.
Did they changed that today?

 

[MattW]

That's my monthly spend with SES sending ~400 mails per day

 

[Dakis]

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

 

[maszd]

Did they changed that today?

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