It was good while it lasted. Now they communicate that the free plans that they had extended to those who used them will not be available anymore. And they recommend me to go to the starter plan of 30 usd per month, and to the year it would go to 360 usd. (…) we will be deprecating our old free p…

That’s actually a very good option for even moderately active sites, and still good for very low volume new sites, thanks for sharing. Do they aggregate by all your sites - ie charge by account rather than domain? Can you then leverage your quota across several sites? (Which would essentially mak…

I’ve not personally used Elastic, but Mailgun/Sendgrid both have account based quotas.

I have tried them all until I settled with Amazon SES. 10/10 deliverability and for a small to medium site it will cost pennies.

Bad news. Elastic Email does not have Discourse’s integration. :sob: I contacted ElasticEmail’s Sales and Christine from Elastic Email said: We do not have an integration with Discourse yet, You can try our integration with Piesync and it has a lot of apps supported. So… goodbye Elastic Email …

[image] SidV: Elastic Email does not have Discourse’s integration SidV, what do you mean by that? SparkPost doesn’t specifically have Discourse Integration as such, but its SMTP interface permits Discourse to send emails? What is Elastic Email missing?

Hi Robert. I really do not understand why Elastic Email Sales Support told me that. I asked them if they could buy any of their plans to use Discourse, and they responded again that there was no integration. Now I’m still in conversation with another person. Finally, Carlos from Elastic Email sai…

Just ask them if they still support SMTP, because that’s what Discourse uses. :slight_smile: The guide I linked above shows how to use Elastic Email’s SMTP with Discourse.

I use SparkPost on one forum and MailGun on another. Wanted to hedge my bets and find the most cost-effective and reliable service. SparkPost’s announcement just made that decision for me.

Just checked with Elastic Mail: They are a recommended platform for Discourse: Given they are (very) slightly cheaper than Amazon SES if you are not using EC2, I think I will be going with Elastic Email’s Pay as You Go.

Goodbye Sparkpost

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) July 19, 2019, 3:53pm 23

But there are some issues with elastic email as well Add IsTransactional:true to SMTP Mail Headers to satisfy ElasticEmail - #8 by pfaffman

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