Ask HN: What is your startup email solution?

6 points by rush-tea 13 years ago | 7 comments

I am curious to know what you guys use for your startup email solution.

I am currently considering moving to AWS, and possibly using their Amazon SES. However I see that there are other alternatives like mailgun.com or sendgrid.com

what would be the advantage of using 3rd party solution vs in house Amazon SES? I see that the pricing is pretty similar and I am leaning towards using SES, but I would like to hear opinions.

Thank you.

thibaut_barrere 13 years ago |

I'm using Mandrill for transactional email, and will most likely start using Mailjet for email campaigns.

I believe that Mandrill etc give a better deliverability compared to SES.

pestaa 13 years ago | |

Can you please share more of your experience regarding deliverability of various services? I'm somewhat surprised to hear SES can be surpassed in this department.

thibaut_barrere 13 years ago | | |

I only tested SendGrid and Mandrill for transactional email.

I switched off SendGrid after seeing quite a bit of gmail owners got their email sent into spam (but I believe they fixed the issue).

I use DKIM/SPF with Mandrill and nobody mentioned a spam issue since then.

On SES: I cannot find back the precise article I was thinking about right now (a benchmark if I remember well), these are just my memories.

lsiunsuex 13 years ago |

We were using campaignmonitor.com until we found out about sendy.co

Sendy uses SES to send the emails on our behalf - so far so good - we do a weekend update to about 1500 address (so far) and it's worked quite well.

Someday I'll script something to dumb the current user email list into sendy so I don't have to export it to csv and reimport it every weekend...

codegeek 13 years ago |

I asked a similar question recently

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5634319

rush-tea 13 years ago | |

Thanks for the info. I searched earlier before post, but I can not find it. Not sure how HN search engine actually works... :(