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.
ACTUALIZACIÓN. Mail-in-a-Box sigue funcionando muy bien para mí con varias instancias de Discourse, así como para el correo transaccional de WordPress.
Lo que quería añadir como actualización es que también he estado gestionando dos instancias de Discourse para organizaciones sin fines de lucro, y para ellas estoy utilizando SendGrid a través de créditos gratuitos de Azure para organizaciones sin fines de lucro, que equivalen a 3500 dólares al año, es decir, básicamente gratis: es más fiable e incluso más barato que mail-in-a-box.
Para otra organización, estoy utilizando Discourse para la gestión de proyectos, y este es otro caso en el que optar por mail-in-a-box es una solución segura, ya que no se esperan anuncios ni mensajes spam ocasionales; por lo tanto: