I tried to sign up for Sendgrid and my account failed verification. I didn't (and still don't) want to use my company email- even though I offered to confirm that I'm a real person through it. Despite that, I got a canned response telling me to 'change my account email and update my company name' on the account, with a nice red banner telling me I 'failed provisioning'.

Especially irritating because I was just trying to troubleshoot a configuration issue for a shared customer.

Making the switch now. I send less usually 10-20 emails per month using Mandrill, no way I am paying their absurd costs and getting Mailchimp just for that. Sendgrid here I come.

Do you guys have a free plan at all? I've never sent more than 100 emails in a month...

Sendgrid has 12k free, scroll way down

It's more expensive than that for MailChimp, if I understand things correctly. On top of $20 for 25,000 emails you have to have a paid monthly MailChimp account. Or did I misunderstand something?

That's correct - you also need to have a paid MailChimp account. With SendGrid, use of the marketing product is the add-on (not the other way around).

Yeah their paid accounts are horrific

I'm looking at switching to SendGrid.

2 questions, do you guys support handlebar in email templates? And do you still have the Microsoft Azure deal?

We support substitution tags in email templates. In other words, you can replace -name- with the name of your customer - it works a lot like {{name}} in a handlebars template.

And yes, you can still sign up through the Microsoft Azure marketplace: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/partners/sendg...

Hope this helps!

25000 emails/month is free at Elastic Email.

Disclosure: I'm from EE. ;)

The github php is confusing and there seems to be several kinds. And the developer there is an asshole. But I use it for now.