<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I'm curious as to why an external service to send emails is required. Is this a question of scalability or no / dodgy access to a SMTP server from hosting etc?</div><div><br></div><div>George</div><br><div><div>On 22 May 2012, at 10:04, Adrian Sevitz wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">We're using postmark app. <div><br></div><div>Reliability is pretty good. So is mail deliverability. API/Rails integration very good too.</div><div><br></div><div>We're hitting some functional ceilings at the moment as we want to add templates and tracking to some of the emails, and this isn't something PostmarkApp supports. At some point me may switch for this reason alone, however were it not for this, I couldn't fault them at all.</div><div><br></div><div>Adrian </div><div> <br><div><div>On 22 May 2012, at 09:58, <a href="mailto:chat-request@lists.lrug.org">chat-request@lists.lrug.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Hi LRUG,<br><br>long-time lurker, first time poster.<br><br>The team I'm working with are probably looking to use an external service<br>to handle our transactional emails (verification of newly signed up users,<br>password reminders etc) and a low volume of marketing emails. A bit of<br>research throws up a number of service providers who do this sort of thing<br>(sendgrid, mailjet, mailchimp etc) but within our team we don't have<br>personal experience of using any of them. Does anyone out there have any<br>recommendations based on your experience?<br><br>The criteria we're most interested in are the quality/reliability of<br>service and how easy it is to use their API from a Rails app.<br><br>Thanks in advance.<br><br>Mark Weston<br>-------------- next part --</span></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Gill Sans'" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">Adrian Sevitz </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Gill Sans'" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><a href="http://vzaar.com/"><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; ">vzaar.com</span></font></a>, CTO</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; 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