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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi LRUG,<div><br></div><div>long-time lurker, first time poster.</div><div><br></div><div>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?  </div>

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