You’re right, they mention Mandrill in the article.
I didn’t realise they’d discontinued it. I remember there being an uproar some years back when they ditched the free tier and made entry level pricing $20/mo.
Since then Mailgun also went paid-only, but it’s still practically free. They don’t send an invoice unless it’s over a certain amount, and mine never are.
I was evaluating Mailchimp for my newsletters at that time. They basically put all the features I was using behind a paywall without notice forcing me to pay that fee. Since I only have a small number of subscribers, It was at that point I started to rethink using a SAAS solution for that purpose and went back to sending newsletters from my Mail client.
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You’re right, they mention Mandrill in the article.
I didn’t realise they’d discontinued it. I remember there being an uproar some years back when they ditched the free tier and made entry level pricing $20/mo.
Or was that Mailgun? We'd used and got frustrated with each, so could be both!
Mailgun was the service a number of my clients flocked to when Mandrill went paid-only.
Free options seem to be drying up.
Since then Mailgun also went paid-only, but it’s still practically free. They don’t send an invoice unless it’s over a certain amount, and mine never are.
I was evaluating Mailchimp for my newsletters at that time. They basically put all the features I was using behind a paywall without notice forcing me to pay that fee. Since I only have a small number of subscribers, It was at that point I started to rethink using a SAAS solution for that purpose and went back to sending newsletters from my Mail client.