4 ms·
I'm not so sure Sendgrid, Postmark, and other email senders should be shaking in their boots. There's plenty of other businesses that leverage AWS technology a
by leftnode 16y ago
I'm not so sure Sendgrid, Postmark, and other email senders should be shaking in their boots.
There's plenty of other businesses that leverage AWS technology and resell it for a higher price. I bet they add AWS as an option as a value added reseller.
If you have an existing email host integrated throughout your site, it might make more sense to just stick with them.
It will force them to lower their prices though.
- eli 16y agoAgreed. I use Silverpop for high-volume sends even though I pretty sure they're just a front-end for PowerMTA
- megaman821 16y agoWe used to use SilverPop but then we just bought a PowerMTA license and wrote our own front end. If you are a small company with a large list, SilverPop is too expensive. Amazon is cheap but it doesn't look like it has any mailmerge (email personalization) capabilities.
- eli 16y agoIf you don't mind my asking, how much of a pain is it dealing with spam complaints and deliverability issues on your own versus through Silverpop?
- megaman821 16y agoThe pain is all up front. You configure PowerMTA to slow down its sending due to the responses of the various email providers so they never block you. As the trust for your ip goes up you can send at a faster and faster rate. Also you then store all the email bounces and run a cron job to clean your list. Usually I stop sending to emails that return hard bounces and ones that have soft bounced three times.