# Options on email providers?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-on-email-providers/89456
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [June 8, 2018, 3:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-on-email-providers/89456 "2018-06-08T15:56:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Garrick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Garrick)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2018, 3:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-on-email-providers/89456/1 "2018-06-08T15:56:21Z")
Hey guys. I use Sendgrid currently but after a recent issue with them and 2FA on the account I cant access it, and they wont give me access to my account. Im looking for whatever options are available that might be easy to set up with good rates. Not sure if amazonses would work for this also?
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2018, 4:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-on-email-providers/89456/2 "2018-06-08T16:25:13Z")
Amazon SES works Just fine with discourse.
Next best bet is mailgun.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-on-email-providers/89456/3 "2018-06-08T16:49:59Z")
Sparkpost is good too … though I believe their free tier has been reduced in allowance recently for new customers.
I use AWS SES for redirection of incoming email.
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### Author:  [@Garrick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Garrick)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-on-email-providers/89456/4 "2018-06-08T16:55:59Z")
Thanks guys. I was really happy with Sendgrid and I pay for the service because of number I have going out. But Im not going to be locked out of a paying account. Their support was worst Ive ever seen.
Setting up AWS now since its been awhile but will check out sparkpost tiers too.
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### Author:  [@SpaceMonkey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SpaceMonkey)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-on-email-providers/89456/5 "2018-06-08T18:03:10Z")
Any opinions on ElasticMail?
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-on-email-providers/89456/6 "2018-06-08T18:38:34Z")
Elasticemail is good but they kinda mess up the overall look of the email with their pesky unsubscribe footers.
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### Author:  [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-on-email-providers/89456/7 "2018-06-08T18:45:24Z")
> [@SpaceMonkey](#):
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> Any opinions on ElasticMail?
Yes. It’s not suitable for discourse:
> [@Remove (or merge) Elastic email Unsubscribe](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-or-merge-elastic-email-unsubscribe/70236/9):
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> What a bummer. It really looks like you can’t send a single email through elastic email without an unsubscribe link at the bottom. (In my case, they’re also adding my address. But I haven’t investigated whether the address can be removed). In any case, I think this should disqualify elastic email as an officially recommended email provider for discourse. It’s unusable like that. And 30 minute install wont work if you have to go back and reconfigure your email…
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> [@itsbhanusharma](#):
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> Amazon SES works Just fine
Interesting. Wasn’t aware of that one. But why would you want to pay 0.1 USD per 1,000 emails from the first email (or am I missing something?) when mailgun gives you the first 10,000 for free (and then 0.5 USD per 1,000)? Are they doing as good a job as mailgun in maintaining a good reputation for their IPs?
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### Author:  [@bartv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bartv)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-on-email-providers/89456/8 "2018-06-08T18:59:44Z")
> [@tophee](#):
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> But why would you want to pay 0.1 USD per 1,000 emails from the first email (or am I missing something?) when mailgun gives you the first 10,000 for free
You’ll just have to do the math for your own situation. I use Amazon SES because we send a substantial amount of emails and it’s significantly cheaper (3-4x) than the competition. If your needs are small I’d definitely go for a provider with a free tier!
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-on-email-providers/89456/9 "2018-06-09T03:21:05Z")
> [@tophee](#):
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> am I missing something?
Their first 62k emails/month are free AFAIK.
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### Author:  [@Garrick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Garrick)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2018, 7:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-on-email-providers/89456/10 "2018-06-09T07:42:43Z")
Its free if your hosted account is on EC2. So you cant have the site on say digital ocean and get a free plan.
Im looking about 100k + emails monthly and what Im setting up now is splitting my newsletter for discourse by using sendy on an ec2 container to take advantage of the free emails. Ultimately it should be way cheaper then what I pay now just a little easier.
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2018, 7:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-on-email-providers/89456/11 "2018-06-09T07:43:40Z")
> [@Garrick](#):
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> Its free if your hosted account is on EC2
That isn’t a big issue!
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### Author:  [@Garrick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Garrick)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2018, 7:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-on-email-providers/89456/12 "2018-06-09T07:46:39Z")
Its right there in the image you loaded. It says
> if you send from an application hosted in Amazon EC2,
Click on the Amazon EC2. Its not hard to setup but just a pain in the a\*\*.
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### Author:  [@PabloC](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PabloC)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2018, 10:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-on-email-providers/89456/13 "2018-06-10T10:02:54Z")
Mailgun is working fine for me.
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### Author:  [@notriddle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/notriddle)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2018, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-on-email-providers/89456/14 "2018-06-10T17:28:42Z")
Personally, I’ve had to open a support ticket with MailGun every month or so because my neighbors get our IP address blacklisted (particularly by HostKarma).
I’ve never tried any of the other providers, so I don’t know how they compare.