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.
MISE À JOUR. Mail-in-a-Box me sert toujours très bien pour plusieurs instances Discourse, ainsi que pour les e-mails transactionnels de WordPress.
Ce que je voulais ajouter en mise à jour, c’est que je gère également deux instances Discourse pour des organisations à but non lucratif. Pour celles-ci, j’utilise SendGrid via les crédits Azure pour les associations, soit 3 500 $/an, ce qui revient essentiellement à être gratuit – plus fiable et même moins cher que Mail-in-a-Box.
Pour une autre organisation, j’utilise Discourse pour la gestion de projet, et c’est un autre cas où opter pour Mail-in-a-Box est une solution sûre, car vous ne vous attendez à aucune publicité ni à des messages spam occasionnels ; par conséquent :