:mega: This does not apply to or impact hosted Discourse customers. This applies to self-hosted customers who use Mailgun for their outgoing email. 2022.05.16 Pfaffman adds: I contacted support about people being confused and they sent: I think that https://help.mailgun.com/hc/en-us/articles/3…

That is really a bummer. Are there any good alternatives that offer similar plans that you can recommend us? Thanks for the heads up!

[image] craigconstantine: Does that affect / apply-to hosted Discourse customers? It does not, no. This only affects self-hosted users who set up email. [image] craigconstantine: Is there any context for this Topic? The context is this has been the first provider listed on our recomme…

[image] jomaxro: Most providers have moved away from free plans. Right. There are too many reasons that email can’t be free, I’m afraid. I always thought that 10K free per month seemed too good to be true. As someone who sets up several self-hosted sites per month , I’m going to keep recommen…

I’ve just moved our forum to using Amazon SES and am quite happy with it. AWS is a complex beast and it isn’t the simplest provider, but it wasn’t too hard to change over to their SMTP servers. Note that you will need to raise a support ticket with them in order to be moved out of their email sandbo…

[image] Dannii: Btw, the test email says this at the bottom, which is no longer really true: Update email test email copy committed 03:30AM - 06 Feb 20 UTC (UTC) [image] jomaxro …

[image] jomaxro: Most providers have moved away from free plans how about sendinblue.com ? it still has a free plan of 300 email/day. has anyone used it so far?

I use Sendinblue for a large non-Discourse project and they’re a solid service.

Well, Mailgun is back to what’s effectively a free plan, but only up to 1250 messages/month. From an email I received from them Thursday:

As of today 8 May, 2022, Mailgun is giving 1k free per month, thereafter (perhaps) $ 1 for each next 1k mails sent. While SendinBlue gives 9k per month (300 daily) and Mailet 200 free daily (6k per month), but both stamp the mails with their own logo. Amazon’s AWS gives 62000 free monthly emails s…

Thanks for the update! 1k a month is plenty for some personal projects. Appreciated!

Mailgun is $1/month per 1,000 emails sent (and first 1,000 are free)

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how about sendinblue.com? it still has a free plan of 300 email/day. has anyone used it so far?

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Mailgun is $1/month per 1,000 emails sent (and first 1,000 are free)

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