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Re:Ask HN: Best provider for sending transactional emails? by boyanpro on Thursday July 27, 2017 @02:14AM (#14863034)
I can't which one is the best. But we use MailGun and we are not happy with it. We will probably switch to Postmark.
Re:Ask HN: Best provider for sending transactional emails? by dgranda on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:41AM (#14863803)
I use both on free tier and I am happier with PostMark.

I had several issues when sending to Microsoft (hotmail, msn, etc.) domains via MailGun because someone exceeded granted quota for outbound IP address and since then I balance outgoing emails using both.

As mentioned by others, MailGun support doesn't care much about queries from free tier users so I would go for PostMark if I had to pay (more intensive use) or recommend to someone.

Re:Ask HN: Best provider for sending transactional emails? by kc10 on Thursday July 27, 2017 @03:25AM (#14863298)
I also never faced an issue with MailGun, though I mostly use smtp not their http api.

Is there any specific issue you ran into?

Re:Ask HN: Best provider for sending transactional emails? by akhatri_aus on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:58AM (#14863880)
For us it takes too long for the messages to be received with mailgun.
Re:Ask HN: Best provider for sending transactional emails? by davewasthere on Thursday July 27, 2017 @06:18AM (#14863976)
You're noticing a delay between mailgun getting the email and it getting to the client?

I'm using their REST api to send emails, and I've yet to see an email take more than a couple of seconds to get to destination (gmail) while testing.

How long is too long?

Re:Ask HN: Best provider for sending transactional emails? by bdibs on Thursday July 27, 2017 @03:02AM (#14863219)
Why aren’t you happy with MailGun? I’m a customer and I haven’t had any issues with it.
Re:Ask HN: Best provider for sending transactional emails? by newsbinator on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:02AM (#14863657)
MailGun's support is horrible. I kept emailing them to let them know about login issues, and it would take them a week to get back to me. After a couple tries, they just dropped the ball and stopped following up on the ticket. Message received.