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$20 w/MailChimp Transactional: 25,000 mails $20 w/SendGrid: 100,000 mails So let me know if you're thinking about switching. I'd be happy to intro you to some
by etjossem 11y ago
$20 w/MailChimp Transactional: 25,000 mails
$20 w/SendGrid: 100,000 mails
So let me know if you're thinking about switching. I'd be happy to intro you to someone on our team.
Disclosure: I'm with SendGrid. :)
- wmboy 11y agoOne advantage that Mandrill has over SendGrid is the ability to see the content of emails (run a web agency so it helps a lot with troubleshooting for our clients).
- etjossem 11y agoThat makes a lot of sense! On the backend, we've already built a way to view content samples (for compliance reasons, e.g. if something looks spammy and we need a human to confirm). It would certainly be possible to expose that functionality to users. I'll run that by the PM on the relevant team - you're not alone in wanting that feature.
- wmboy 11y agoI just tried SendGrid out now, unless I'm mistaken you can't even see subject line in the emails that are sent, is this correct?
- etjossem 11y agoYou can look in the Email Activity tab to see a history of events, along with their category (you might use this for "receipt", "forgot password", etc.). https://sendgrid.com/docs/User_Guide/email_activity.html https://sendgrid.com/docs/User_Guide/email_activity.html If you're doing one-to-many campaigns, we also have a marketing email product called Marketing Campaigns that offers a more detailed content history.
- ROFISH 11y agoDefinitely +1 on this. It's a great feature to see if A) emails are being sent and B) templates weren't messed up in some way. (I have had many a batch email with "{{name}" or some other templating error, heh.)
- HugoDias 11y agoI think NOW it's the time to build that feature, ASAP. cc @etjossem
- wmboy 11y agoYeah absolutely if SendGrid builds this functionality and creates a 'Welcome Mandrill customers' page, then you guys will get a whole heap of new signups right away!
- hodoublesy 11y agoAgree 100%.. this is an insane move by Mandrill and if SendGrid can at least show email subjects they will reap the benefits imo !
- etjossem 11y agoWe're discussing what it would take to build it right now. It's absolutely one of the things people appreciated about Mandrill, and I know we want to ease the transition as much as possible.
- jrodom 11y agoWe're working on adding that feature into Mailgun now. We store the content for compliance review and scheduled sends. Disclosure: I lead product development @ Mailgun.
- leesalminen 11y agoThat would an amazing feature add. I'm currently sending 150k/mo with Mailgun and log everything for 6 months. It's rarely accessed, but invaluable when it is.
- safun 11y agoFor your reference: http://blog.mailgun.com/how-to-view-your-messages/ http://blog.mailgun.com/how-to-view-your-messages/
- mrmch 11y agoWe do this (Sendwithus.com) -- not only see email with all personalization, but see it on the device a customer used (was the link really broken on an iPhone?)
- spronkey 11y agoCSS inlining as well - last time we looked SendGrid did not have this functionality.
- etjossem 11y agoThere are lots of existing resources out there for automatically inlining CSS after writing your template, so we recommend you use whichever one you like best. Zurb Foundation has one with a web interface: http://foundation.zurb.com/emails/inliner.html http://foundation.zurb.com/emails/inliner.html I personally prefer Jon Kemp's open source inliner, which is a good choice if you want to do that step locally: https://github.com/jonkemp/inline-css https://github.com/jonkemp/inline-css
- jrodom 11y agoToday, we launched a new API that allows you to access the content of messages you've sent over the last three days. We have details on our blog @ http://blog.mailgun.com/how-to-view-your-messages/ http://blog.mailgun.com/how-to-view-your-messages/
- vskarine 11y agoAny good examples on using templating with variables in SendGrid? The docs are not very clear on that (you call them tags is that it?). I think you can get a lot of users if you show one to one mapping of API and common processes between Mandrill and SendGrid.
- etjossem 11y agoYep, if you're using the SMTP API, see https://sendgrid.com/docs/API_Reference/SMTP_API/substitution_tags.html https://sendgrid.com/docs/API_Reference/SMTP_API/substitutio.... If you're using a wrapper like sendgrid-ruby (https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-ruby https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-ruby), check out its documentation page on GitHub. For instance, here's how to use substitution tags in Ruby: https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-ruby#working-with-templates https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-ruby#working-with-templ...
- yesimahuman 11y agoA few years ago I went with Mandrill over SendGrid because of the lack of templates. I wanted designers/marketers to be able to edit the templates and with sendgrid that was really difficult. A couple years later and you guys caught up and then some. Excited to come back after this Mandrill change!
- compy234 11y agoI am in the same boat. Glad to also give SendGrid a look!
- mrmch 11y agoAlso check us out: https://www.sendwithus.com/docs/templating https://www.sendwithus.com/docs/templating Our template engine (Jinja) is the most advanced of any email platform out there.
- mapunk 11y agoStop spamming your service all throughout the thread. It's annoying and certainly turns me off to it.
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- HugoDias 11y agoOh thanks for that. I was already typing "Mandrill alternative" on google.
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- adnans 11y agoIs it possible to have more than 300 templates per account? We're offering custom transactional email templates to our clients and might exceed this limit. Definitely looking at moving to SendGrid after this announcement. Previewing content of the last 7 days of sent emails would also be a bonus.
- mrmch 11y agoCheck us out (Sendwithus.com, yc w14) Unlimited templates, and you can swap out backends (SendGrid, SparkPost, others)
- jackpointnl 11y agoI need to send around 180k emails. Is that 2 x 100k for $19.95 ?
- akor 11y agoFWIW We left SendGrid because it was impossible to troubleshoot sends. When asked SendGrid's response was email subjects are coming but for now you can tag your emails with tags/categories. I know it's probably not simple to implement but it might be worth something to you guys in terms of business. It looks like subjects are still not supported unless I'm missing them. I'm looking at the "Activity" screen.