Continuing the discussion from Mailgun is $1/month per 1,000 emails sent (and first 1,000 are free): I’ve been happy with Mailgun but am paying about $25 per month now (25,000 emails). What cheaper – but still reputable – alternatives can you recommend? I wondered about Amazon SES. Also, a recent Mailgun communication said that they themselves had moved from Amazon to Google for their email infrastructure. Maybe Google has something suitable.

MXRoute is an option up to 300 emails/hour for $45/year.

I’ve had fun reading their responses to bad reviews on Trustpilot. I like the cut of their jib!

[image] ufuk: try amazon SES. This. I’ve sent 5,441 emails in June, being 0.0001 each = U$ 0.54.

I tried migrating to SES these days. They denied my request for production access for some security reasons that they won’t let me know (?). And it appears that it’s tricky to track emails with SES.

contact with support, i believe they will fix it.

SendGrid is indeed a good alternative. Their service is reliable even in China. (Mailgun’s verification code can’t reach me via SMS…while theirs can) The old price of Essential 50k plan was even cheaper, which is 15$.

I use SendinBlue, which is free for 300 emails per day, I have a very small forum. Another one you might want to look into is Zoho’s Transactional Email service. Reliable SMTP Relay & Transactional Email Sending API | Zoho ZeptoMail it’s $2.50 for 10,000 transactional emails from a pretty reputable company.

[image] La Kuma: I use SendinBlue, which is free for 300 emails per day Does Sendinblue send clean emails as part of the free 300 emails per day, or do they insert their branding into your emails? [image] La Kuma: Transactional email service | ZeptoMail by Zoho Mail it’s $2.50 for 10,000 transactional emails from a pretty reputable company. Thanks for mentioning this option. While Amazon SES sounds like a better deal to me at $1 per 10,000 emails, perhaps ZeptoMail would be a good option for anyone having difficulty setting up SES as discussed earlier in this thread.

It could be a good idea to make a table comparison somewhere. I’m using Mailgun, but the fees are slowly increasing and maybe an alternative could suit my needs better. I send between 7000 and 10000 emails per month. An estimate of Amazon SES shows that it would decrease my email fees from ~90$/year to ~15$/year.

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I’ve got an Amazon SES account now! Is there a good idiot’s guide to changing Discourse settings from Mailgun to SES? I use Discourse’s mail-receiver too. Thanks

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