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I went from mailgun to gsuite. costs went up 3x and almost all of my emails are going to spam folders even when the contact and I have been emailing each other

I went from mailgun to gsuite. costs went up 3x and almost all of my emails are going to spam folders even when the contact and I have been emailing each other for ages. Would definitely recommend mailgun/sendgrid over gsuite for emails and not entirely agree with this blog post.

zippergz 5y ago
What are you talking about? The use cases for Mailgun and gsuite have effectively no overlap.
- ganeshkrishnan 5y ago
  both send emails and both allow user email creation (with mailgun it was virtual email forwarded to personal email). I had to switch to gsuite because hubspot doenst allow external smtp server to send out emails and we couldnt use mailgun.
  - mikeryan 5y ago
    If you started sending Hubspot marketing or CRM emails directly from Gsuite its going to get marked as Spam, thats the whole point of using a transactional service. I've had multiple clients in the past who have decided to send "Check out my new App!" emails to their entire contact list from Gmail who shortly found out the hard way that it caused all their emails to start being marked as Spam. Don't use Gmail like this.
    - ganeshkrishnan 5y ago
      I only send out limited transactional emails via gmail and thats only because hubspot only supports sending email by connecting gmail. For some absurd reason they dont allow SMTP servers for sending emails. Since hubspot is our CRM I had to start using gsuite. The problem is is that the emails from hubspot land in the inbox. BUT the emails from my outlook that I type it out land in people's spam folder. One reason why I have zero concerns with googles overarching data privacy issue is that I can see how stupid their AI /algorithms are. And with more noise it just gets worse not better.
niftylettuce 5y ago
I built https://forwardemail.net https://forwardemail.net as the costs went up and I needed a cheaper alternative for my domains. Any questions feel free to email me, nick@forwardemail.net
- ganeshkrishnan 5y ago
  I would love to use it. The only challenge for me is that hubspot only sends emails via gmail/gsuite

zippergz 5y ago

What are you talking about? The use cases for Mailgun and gsuite have effectively no overlap.

ganeshkrishnan 5y ago
both send emails and both allow user email creation (with mailgun it was virtual email forwarded to personal email). I had to switch to gsuite because hubspot doenst allow external smtp server to send out emails and we couldnt use mailgun.
- mikeryan 5y ago
  If you started sending Hubspot marketing or CRM emails directly from Gsuite its going to get marked as Spam, thats the whole point of using a transactional service. I've had multiple clients in the past who have decided to send "Check out my new App!" emails to their entire contact list from Gmail who shortly found out the hard way that it caused all their emails to start being marked as Spam. Don't use Gmail like this.
  - ganeshkrishnan 5y ago
    I only send out limited transactional emails via gmail and thats only because hubspot only supports sending email by connecting gmail. For some absurd reason they dont allow SMTP servers for sending emails. Since hubspot is our CRM I had to start using gsuite. The problem is is that the emails from hubspot land in the inbox. BUT the emails from my outlook that I type it out land in people's spam folder. One reason why I have zero concerns with googles overarching data privacy issue is that I can see how stupid their AI /algorithms are. And with more noise it just gets worse not better.

niftylettuce 5y ago

I built https://forwardemail.net https://forwardemail.net as the costs went up and I needed a cheaper alternative for my domains. Any questions feel free to email me, nick@forwardemail.net

ganeshkrishnan 5y ago
I would love to use it. The only challenge for me is that hubspot only sends emails via gmail/gsuite