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Ask HN: Who are you using to manage your email campaings?

I'm looking for a company to send and manage email campaigns for a client. It's been tough to research because anytime you search for anything related to email marketing you are instantly knee deep in junk. I've looked into companies like MailChimp, Contactology, and Campaign Monitor and I was wondering if people had any other suggestions? There are a couple requirements that even some of the companies I just listed didn't meet. We need to be able to send transactional emails and have them tracked and included in reports. A web accessible API is a must but it seems almost every company has that these days. Pricing isn't as much of a factor as functionality is but obviously it needs to be considered. The best option I've found so far is Contactology because it lets me create automated triggers like 'send this email when user is added to list' type thing. That's what we are looking to do, more one at a time emails then massive campaigns. Any help is most appreciated.
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Re:Ask HN: Who are you using to manage your email campaings? by vgurgov on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @04:53PM (#1959824)
MailChimp works pretty well for us. They have great API. Not sure if they have "send something once new user joins" as we send such things from our app.
Re:Ask HN: Who are you using to manage your email campaings? by matdwyer on Thursday December 02, 2010 @01:48AM (#1961319)
MailChimp has some pretty awesome integrations, goes right into freshbooks for automatic invoicing, formstack for forms, and a ton more. Works great for us.
Re:Ask HN: Who are you using to manage your email campaings? by arn on Thursday December 02, 2010 @01:02AM (#1961221)
Not sure these fill your needs for http://sendgrid.com and http://postmarkapp.com were two I was looking at recently for transactional emails.
Re:Ask HN: Who are you using to manage your email campaings? by iworkforthem on Thursday December 02, 2010 @12:24AM (#1961123)
"lets me create automated triggers like 'send this email when user is added to list"

This look a lot like an Autoresponder feature, of which it is already provided for in MailChimp and CampaignMonitor. Also, it helps to provide your contact details in the profile, so help can find the way to you. :)

Re:Ask HN: Who are you using to manage your email campaings? by kondro on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @05:50PM (#1960082)
I really like CampaignMonitor and their reseller options are great.
Re:Ask HN: Who are you using to manage your email campaings? by The_Igor on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @08:15PM (#1960540)