Sending transactional emails for a site with 300k+ users, Acting as a BYO SMTP service for data ownership
It's a powerful and cost-competitive API for high-volume senders, but costs can scale significantly.
Cost-effective email sending for high-volume users on a tight budget
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The biggest feature request I've seen is the ability to handle incoming emails as tickets, and that's now easy with MailGun or SendGrid.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: handling incoming emails as tickets
Daily email I reply To to keep a diary: two php scripts and mailgun.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Email delivery for a personal diary system based on email replies
I stuck with it after evaluating a BUNCH of options when I got up to around 30-50k users. 50k users would be $640 mo today (vs ~$80 on Mailgun).
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Email sending for a site with 300k+ users, including transactional and newsletter emails.
Mailgun used to have a generous free tier... but things add up.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Sending mail (referenced for its past free tier).
All the features of the big players, but you bring your own SMTP (SendGrid, Mailgun, etc.) and own your data?
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: SMTP service for sending emails (mentioned as a viable BYO option)
Apparently they can spoof emails from my domain on a mailgun server as long as it’s to an email address on my domain.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Email sending service
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