I've been looking for a good alternative since I received this news. Someone mentioned sparkpost, and it seemed to be the one that was closest to what mandrill

I've been looking for a good alternative since I received this news. Someone mentioned sparkpost, and it seemed to be the one that was closest to what mandrill was offering (they offer 10,000 instead of mandrill's 12,000). So I just tried SparkPost and at a quick glance, here is what I found - You have to specify the "sending domain". In Mandrill, I could just do "from blah@whatever.com" and it worked. But with SparkPost, I have to specify "whatever.com" as a sending domain. But you have to verify the ownership of the domain, so the bottom line is you can't just change the "FROM EMAIL" address to anything. - Also, I just sent a test email and it went straight to GMail SPAM folder. This never happened with Mandrill.