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Are you confusing marketing emails with transactional emails? What about order confirmations? Password reset emails?

• denton-scratch 7y ago
  Perhaps I'm confusing one kind of marketing spam with another kind of marketing spam. It all makes me feel ill, to the very depths of my Soul. "Order confirmations": not necessary. I should have a choice whether I use my email address to confirm an order. "Transactional": I don't know what that means (I keep finding that term being used). I think it means that the email is being used as part of an agreed deal. Fine: if I've agreed to my email being used as part of a deal, no prob. Otherwise, leave me alone. "Order confirmations": if I need my order confirmed, then I can opt for that, and give you my email. But in general, orders don't need confirming - you either order, or you don't. "Password reset": My passwords are my business. I use a password manager. Please don't assume I'm a password slob. Passwords suck; they are an insane way to authenticate, they just don't work. So reset emails are not a good use-case for unsolicited email. Next?
• markhahn 7y ago
  is mailgun/jet necessary for transactional emails? isn't their reason for existence the sending of multi-recipient emails?
  • dewey 7y ago
    If by "multi-recipient emails" you talk about newsletter that's probably more MailChimp's territory which is also clear from their landing page. Mailgun is clearly aimed at developers implementing transactional email functionality. It's not "necessary", same as Stripe isn't necessary for accepting payments but it makes it a whole lot easier if you have to deal with it and don't want to implement everything yourself or run mail infrastructure.