# Pepipost transactional email service
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/pepipost-transactional-email-service/57984
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [2017年二月26日 14:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pepipost-transactional-email-service/57984 "2017-02-26T14:25:18Z")
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### Author:  [@ljpp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ljpp)
#### Post date: [2017年二月26日 14:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pepipost-transactional-email-service/57984/1 "2017-02-26T14:25:18Z")
We all know MailGun, SparkPost and others - but recently I stumbled into an alternative email service provider, that is suitable for a Discourse setup: [Pepipost.com](http://www.pepipost.com/)
_Note: I am not affiliated with them in any way_
They seem to be relatively new. They have an interesting pricing model, charging only for emails that **are not opened**. This might keep spammy customers away. And they have a rather generous free-tier plan of 25000 mails per month – and only the unopened ones should consume your credits (I think so, TBC).
- Nice dashboard and reports
- Tech support is helpful and available
- For some reason I get rather low scores with [email-tester.com](http://email-tester.com), but so far my delivery rate is 100%.
Some cons, or weirdness:
- They manually validate new customer websites (How to add a non-existing, new site?). Takes some some.
- Some awful security practices if using default settings - can be worked around though:
- Your account password is the default SMTP password too
- Click tracking URLs include your account username (wtf?)
- Some of the settings, or way they are presented, are a bit un-orthodox.
I decided to give them a try, since my SparkPost free plan had some deliverability issues. I will need to monitor on the long run if Pepipost is better in this sense. Also I have some trouble figuring out their click tracking URL settings - I have not yet figured out how exactly do I configure it to use my custom domain “[email.website.com](http://email.website.com)”.
But an interesting option, and the free-tier plan is sufficient for a pretty large Discourse community.
Anyone using them? How do they perform? Also, if you have the click tracking custom domain figured out, I would like to ask a question, so pls. page me.
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [2017年二月26日 18:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pepipost-transactional-email-service/57984/2 "2017-02-26T18:38:41Z")
> [@ljpp](#):
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> For some reason I get rather low scores with [email-tester.com](http://email-tester.com), but so far my delivery rate is 100%.
Could you post a (possibly redacted) screenshot from [mail-tester.com](http://mail-tester.com), so we can see where the points are deducted, exactly? 🙂
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### Author:  [@ljpp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ljpp)
#### Post date: [2017年二月26日 19:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pepipost-transactional-email-service/57984/3 "2017-02-26T19:17:57Z")
Not yet. I am out of my free tests quota and did not save a link for later. Will do at some point.
@fefrei One thing I remember is that email-tester complained about not having DKIM in place, which in my opinion I do. Could be a false positive, or something, and it gives a big penalty in the results.