Thanks Richard, unfortunately, we’re going to exceed the 500k Pageviews /month limit in the professional package, and we need Custom Plugins, so the lowest one that suits you is Business – being a non-for-profit, we cannot afford that.
Btw, do you get into an IP blacklists management nightmare because of the complimentary email sending you provide?
Can you please PM me with more details about your community and your requirements?
Once Discourse starts sending email, the forum has a pretty good opt-in. We only had two issues - ever.
The first issue was about a customer sending large amount of bulk invites to people that did not realize they opted in for this. (They actually did).
The second issue was when a forum that was converted from a mailing list started sending weekly digests to michelle @sorbs.net - of all people.
I ended up installing my own Mail-in-a-Box email in a $5/mo DigitalOcean droplet, and now can send infinite number of emails provided I comply with all regulations, SPAM-CAN etc. I’m not dependent on those mail services anymore, yahoo! And my spendings are limited to $5/mo. I can also add unlimited domains to my Mail-in-a-box instance.
UPDATE: Mail-in-a-Box funktioniert nach wie vor hervorragend für mehrere Discourse-Instanzen sowie für transaktionale E-Mails von WordPress.
Als Ergänzung möchte ich erwähnen, dass ich derzeit zwei Discourse-Instanzen für gemeinnützige Organisationen betreibe. Für diese nutze ich SendGrid über Azure-Gutschriften für gemeinnützige Organisationen, was 3.500 USD pro Jahr kostet – also praktisch kostenlos. Das ist zuverlässiger und sogar günstiger als Mail-in-a-Box.
Für eine weitere Organisation verwende ich Discourse für das Projektmanagement. Dies ist ein weiterer Fall, in dem Mail-in-a-Box eine sichere Lösung ist, da man keine Werbung oder gelegentliche Spam-Nachrichten erwartet. Daher: