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.
AGGIORNAMENTO. Mail-in-a-Box continua a funzionare egregiamente per me, gestendo più istanze di Discourse, nonché le email transazionali per WordPress.
Ciò che volevo aggiungere come aggiornamento è che sto anche gestendo due istanze di Discourse per organizzazioni non profit, e per queste sto utilizzando SendGrid tramite i crediti nonprofit di Azure, che costano 3500 dollari all’anno, quindi praticamente gratis: più affidabile e persino più economico di Mail-in-a-Box.
Per un’altra organizzazione sto utilizzando Discourse per la gestione dei progetti, e questo è un altro caso in cui optare per Mail-in-a-Box è una soluzione sicura, dato che non ci si aspetta annunci pubblicitari o messaggi spam occasionali; pertanto: