[LRUG] smtp as a service

[Will Jessop]

I did a price comparison of some of the providers mentioned in this thread:

http://blog.willj.net/2011/11/30/email-provider-price-comparison/

The comments in particular there might help. One thing the Postmark
guys claim is access to the full range of features at all prices
ranges, rather than other providers that make you "buy in" to higher
tiers to get them. However about the 480k emails/month mark Sendgrid
Platinum starts to look like a better deal (see
http://willj.net/static/cloud_email_provider_price_comparison.html#comparison)

We don't actually use any of these services, we run our own mail
relays so I can't recommend any. It take a little time and lot of
know-how but we do have very good deliverability rates.

HTH,
Will.

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Mark Weston <mark at markweston.me.uk> wrote:
> 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.