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.
I use Amazon SES. Give it a try 
我之前在使用 SendGrid，但在配置 Discourse 论坛后，他们认为我发送垃圾邮件（因为 Discourse 发送了大量邮件）而暂停了我的 SendGrid 账户。我尝试联系客服，但他们没有回复，已经两天了，我的论坛急需发送邮件，而且我反正需要一个更好的提供商。有什么免费又好用的吗？
“免费”和“非常好”这两个词很少同时出现。
可靠的交易邮件通常是“一分钱一分货”的道理 
是的，您有什么推荐的免费 Discourse 提供商吗？
我是 Amazon SES 的忠实用户。它有免费套餐，而且非常便宜，但他们的设置过程却一点也不用户友好。
例如，上个月，我因发送了 12,040 封电子邮件（前 3,000 封免费，之后每 1,000 封电子邮件收费 0.10 美元）而被收取了 0.90 美元的费用。
太棒了！还有更友好的吗？