Re:Sendgrid under siege from hacked accounts
by cnst on Saturday August 29, 2020 @05:59PM
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The whole idea behind Sendgrid is a joke.
It's become popular for some providers since the move to the Cloud to block outgoing port 25, but apart from that, you literally don't need Sendgrid. Any senior engineer can write a local "Sendgrid" in about half a day. Sendgrid doesn't even support all the RFCs properly, so, you'll likely get dropped mail if you move to Sendgrid from Postfix/Sendmail. Besides that, Sendgrid's UI/UX was terrible the last time I've played with it. It's literally the lamest startup there could possibly be.
As a customer of some unrelated service, I've already converted said service away from Sendgrid in just a couple of emails to the owner. (Sadly, they've moved to one of the many Sendgrid's competitors, not to Postfix/Sendmail, but the switch was obviously painless.) That's how horrible Sendgrid is, and how easy it is to make other people switch.
P.S. I often send mail through shell scripts. Try selling me Sendgrid when my laptop already comes with Postfix/Sendmail, with spool support. Does Sendgrid even work when you have no internet connection? (Rhetorical question: no, Sendgrid does not when internet is not available; but Postfix/Sendmail works just fine even without any internet, and will spool all your mail until you get connected to an internet with port 25 not blocked.) Sendgrid is a downgrade however you look at it.
It's become popular for some providers since the move to the Cloud to block outgoing port 25, but apart from that, you literally don't need Sendgrid. Any senior engineer can write a local "Sendgrid" in about half a day. Sendgrid doesn't even support all the RFCs properly, so, you'll likely get dropped mail if you move to Sendgrid from Postfix/Sendmail. Besides that, Sendgrid's UI/UX was terrible the last time I've played with it. It's literally the lamest startup there could possibly be.
As a customer of some unrelated service, I've already converted said service away from Sendgrid in just a couple of emails to the owner. (Sadly, they've moved to one of the many Sendgrid's competitors, not to Postfix/Sendmail, but the switch was obviously painless.) That's how horrible Sendgrid is, and how easy it is to make other people switch.
P.S. I often send mail through shell scripts. Try selling me Sendgrid when my laptop already comes with Postfix/Sendmail, with spool support. Does Sendgrid even work when you have no internet connection? (Rhetorical question: no, Sendgrid does not when internet is not available; but Postfix/Sendmail works just fine even without any internet, and will spool all your mail until you get connected to an internet with port 25 not blocked.) Sendgrid is a downgrade however you look at it.