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Re:Show HN: Maildown – Super Simple Email API by chris140957 on Saturday May 25, 2019 @01:21PM (#20010142)
I'm planning to add support for other email backends. For me, AWS makes the most sense as it's basically free for 99.9% of the population with its 62k free monthly email limit
Re:Show HN: Maildown – Super Simple Email API by old-gregg on Saturday May 25, 2019 @03:40PM (#20010868)
Nice project! Can I offer a suggestion? Add support for goold old sendmail. Every email provider (Mailgun, Sendgrid, SES and others) have SMTP support and sendmail instructions. All of my home servers are already configured with it, so adding markdown to this setup would be sick.
Re:Show HN: Maildown – Super Simple Email API by chris140957 on Saturday May 25, 2019 @03:47PM (#20010929)
Sure, I'm already planning to add other backends as an alternative to AWS. Feel free to add a note to issue #7 and I'll get on the case
Re:Show HN: Maildown – Super Simple Email API by sah2ed on Saturday May 25, 2019 @01:47PM (#20010274)
Do you know whether the "62k free monthly emails limit" of the free-tier is available to existing AWS accounts, or a new AWS account must be created to enjoy free-tier billing?

Thanks!

EDIT: BTW, nice project!

Re:Show HN: Maildown – Super Simple Email API by molecule on Saturday May 25, 2019 @02:11PM (#20010370)
Sounds like new and existing accounts, but only if the email originates within AWS EC2:

> When you call Amazon SES from an application hosted in Amazon EC2, you can send 62,000 messages per month at no charge. This Free Usage Tier benefit does not expire.

https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/

Re:Show HN: Maildown – Super Simple Email API by chris140957 on Saturday May 25, 2019 @02:09PM (#20010357)
I believe its 62k free monthly emails for anyone, regardless of how long you've had your AWS account

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/

Re:Show HN: Maildown – Super Simple Email API by onlyrealcuzzo on Saturday May 25, 2019 @04:48PM (#20011319)
Do you have to do your own queueing to make sure you're not sending too many emails all at once and they get marked as spam? Or does SES handle that for you? And if it doesn't, is there any service that will do this?
Re:Show HN: Maildown – Super Simple Email API by chris140957 on Saturday May 25, 2019 @04:52PM (#20011344)
AWS handles that stuff for you. You can use SNS to monitor stuff like deliverability
Re:Show HN: Maildown – Super Simple Email API by onlyrealcuzzo on Saturday May 25, 2019 @04:53PM (#20011348)
Wow! That's amazing! What's the purpose of having your own dedicated IP then?