[LRUG] smtp as a service

[Andrew McDonough]

At Tribesports, we use SendGrid for emails sent by our application (welcome
emails, password reminders, etc), and MailChimp for newsletter emails.
 SendGrid is great for automatic emails, whereas MailChimp makes it easy
for our business team to assemble custom newsletters without bothering the
developers.  Whatever you use, make sure you set up DKIM, SPF, Sender-ID
and Domain Keys properly, or your emails will probably end up in users'
spam folders.  Here are some more tips from the SendGrid blog:

http://sendgrid.com/blog/10-tips-to-keep-email-out-of-the-spam-folder/

Andrew


Andrew McDonough
Co-founder and CTO
Tribesports

On 22 May 2012 09:48, Mark Weston <mark at markweston.me.uk> wrote:

> Hi LRUG,
>
> long-time lurker, first time poster.
>
> The team I'm working with are probably looking to use an external service
> to handle our transactional emails (verification of newly signed up users,
> password reminders etc) and a low volume of marketing emails.  A bit of
> research throws up a number of service providers who do this sort of thing
> (sendgrid, mailjet, mailchimp etc) but within our team we don't have
> personal experience of using any of them.  Does anyone out there have any
> recommendations based on your experience?
>
> The criteria we're most interested in are the quality/reliability of
> service and how easy it is to use their API from a Rails app.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Mark Weston
>
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