[LRUG] smtp as a service

[Ash Berlin]

On 22 May 2012, at 09:48, Mark Weston 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

I've been using PostMark very happily for the past 18 months. Reliable service, nice gem that makes it easy to integrate into ActiveMailer, and if you care about bounces etc they can send your service a POST on that event too etc..

http://postmarkapp.com/

-ash