The install guide offers a handful of email providers for Discourse. I was wondering if people could chime in with their feedback for the ones mentioned in the guide (Mailgun, Elastic, SendGrid, Mailjet).
I used SendGrid on an install and it took awhile to get it to work correctly. I had to verify with five separate CNAMEs to verify the site and get emails not to end up in spam folders.
What has been the most painless service for you? And is the verification process the same for every provider?
@pfaffman may have thoughts
I just did a new setup with Mailgun and it was substantially easier than SendGrid was.
I’ve found mailgun to be very simple and effective. Their dashboard tells you exactly what you need to configure and checks DNS regularly to make sure records stay intact. The rest of their platform is rather simplistic, if you’re looking for more in the way of analytics you may be better paying the premium and sticking with Sendgrid.
Last time I checked MailJet and SendGrid were equally priced, but MailJet didn’t really offer much over cheaper options such as MailGun and ElasticEmail.
I’ve only worked with Elastic Email a couple of times. They do talk about mail reputation on their platform being affected by email volumes below 10,000 messages, so they might be a bad starting point for small communities.
As to ‘best’, it very much depends on your appetite for this kind of stuff. Setting up CNAMEs is par for the course with everyone. All of the companies you’ve mentioned are experts in mail deliverability and that’s part of why they’re recommended rather than running a local SMTP server. If you give us more information on your community size and estimated volumes it would certainly help.
My community is very small. A better topic title should be “Easiest Email Providers”. Mailgun had fewer records to work with and got up and running faster, which is what I was looking for. Serious analytics is out of my range so Mailgun was just what I needed.
I’m mainly looking for feedback from other uses as to if they encountered any roadblocks or had their feedback about a particular service.
Mailgun is extremely good, I’ve set it up months ago and I’ve never even went back on to check anything because there are never any errors or limit problems.
Give it a try, 10,000 emails a month for free.
저는 Amazon SES를 사용하고 있습니다. 한번 사용해 보세요 
저는 sendgrid를 사용하다가 discourse 포럼을 설정한 후에, sendgrid 계정이 스팸 발송자로 오해받아 정지되었습니다 (discourse가 많은 이메일을 보내기 때문이죠). 지원팀에 연락을 시도했지만 답변이 없었고, 이미 이틀이 지났는데 포럼에서 이메일을 보내야 하는 상황이 정말 급합니다. 그리고 어쨌든 더 나은 제공자를 찾고 있었습니다. 무료이면서 정말 좋은 서비스는 어떤 게 있을까요?
「무료」와 「정말 좋다」는 두 단어가 함께 쓰이는 경우는 드뭅니다.
신뢰할 수 있는 트랜잭션 이메일은 흔히 말하듯, 내는 값만큼만 받을 수 있는 경우가 많습니다. 
맞아요. 무료인 디스커스(Discourse) 호스팅 제공업체 중 추천할 만한 곳이 있을까요?
저는 Amazon SES를 만족스럽게 사용 중인 사용자입니다. 무료 티어가 있고 가격은 정말 저렴하지만, 설정 과정은 사용자 친화적이라고 보기 어렵습니다.
예를 들어, 지난달에는 12,040통의 이메일에 대해 0.90달러(무료 3,000통, 이후 1,000통당 0.10달러)를 청구받았습니다.
멋지네요! 더 사용자 친화적인 건 없나요?