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Is there any alternative to Mailgun for sending / receive mails for free? Let's say 500mails per month? Thank you.

by black1101 7y ago

pmlnr 7y ago
gmail? outlook? basically anything with imap access.
- edmundsauto 7y ago
  This is downvoted, but correct. You can programmatically tap into a Gmail account and send 20-30 emails per day, which adds up to the 500/mo.
  - dugite-code 7y ago
    Whilst technically correct the issue with gmail is it overwrites the from address with the gmail address.
corentin88 7y ago
Gmail + a mail merge addon (like Mailmeteor.com or Gmass)
DoctorOW 7y ago
Just curious if it is 500/month, why switch?
- black1101 7y ago
  From the description, it seems, that you have just 500 mails to send. You can not receive emails anymore. Or am I wrong? Thank you.
sam_goody 7y ago
Mailjet, even though it is owned by Mailgun, has a higher free tier. Sendgrid is owned by Twillio, and has a similar free tier. Ses is pretty cheap, for 500 mails, it is essentially free. Or get a dedicated IP, use mailinabox or other similar one click setups.
- black1101 7y ago
  I Own our private VPS where I was sending and receiving without trouble in the past but currently I am not able to setup mail server correctly what is reason why I started to use mailgun.
sethammons 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work with Twilio SendGrid. We have the inbound parse webhook which turns incoming SMTP into an HTTP post to your URL. Our free plan is is 100/day after the trial period which has a much higher limit.
yyyk 7y ago
Most large Cloud Providers have an arrangement with at least one email service which allows some free service (at least no extra charge than whatever one is paying for the subscription), with a far higher limit than the typical free tiers - e.g. AWS/SES, Azure/SendGrid, IBM/SendGrid, GCP/Mailgun. So if you're already paying for some cloud hosting somewhere you likely have a free email service you can use.

Is there any alternative to Mailgun for sending / receive mails for free? Let's say 500mails per month? Thank you.

pmlnr 7y ago

gmail? outlook? basically anything with imap access.

edmundsauto 7y ago
This is downvoted, but correct. You can programmatically tap into a Gmail account and send 20-30 emails per day, which adds up to the 500/mo.
- dugite-code 7y ago
  Whilst technically correct the issue with gmail is it overwrites the from address with the gmail address.

corentin88 7y ago

Gmail + a mail merge addon (like Mailmeteor.com or Gmass)

DoctorOW 7y ago

Just curious if it is 500/month, why switch?

black1101 7y ago
From the description, it seems, that you have just 500 mails to send. You can not receive emails anymore. Or am I wrong? Thank you.

sam_goody 7y ago

Mailjet, even though it is owned by Mailgun, has a higher free tier. Sendgrid is owned by Twillio, and has a similar free tier. Ses is pretty cheap, for 500 mails, it is essentially free. Or get a dedicated IP, use mailinabox or other similar one click setups.

black1101 7y ago
I Own our private VPS where I was sending and receiving without trouble in the past but currently I am not able to setup mail server correctly what is reason why I started to use mailgun.

sethammons 7y ago

Disclaimer: I work with Twilio SendGrid. We have the inbound parse webhook which turns incoming SMTP into an HTTP post to your URL. Our free plan is is 100/day after the trial period which has a much higher limit.

yyyk 7y ago

Most large Cloud Providers have an arrangement with at least one email service which allows some free service (at least no extra charge than whatever one is paying for the subscription), with a far higher limit than the typical free tiers - e.g. AWS/SES, Azure/SendGrid, IBM/SendGrid, GCP/Mailgun. So if you're already paying for some cloud hosting somewhere you likely have a free email service you can use.