Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS SES

Re:Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS... by yread on Sunday May 23, 2021 @05:57PM (#27258997)

AWS SES is ~1$/10,000 emails. Are you the biggest spammer or just very very poor?

Also, 20 years ago running your email server was way easier than now

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Re:Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS... by bpodgursky on Sunday May 23, 2021 @06:17PM (#27259140)

At a previous job, all API errors were emailed to internal email lists.

The dev monitoring the API health kept track of system health by looking at the number of unread messages in his inbox. If the number of unread messages went up by < 100,000 in a day, the API was doing fine. If there were a couple million new messages, it means we were having problems.

So... I can definitely see how this is plausible, if not uh, "best practice".

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Re:Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS... by hpkuarg on Sunday May 23, 2021 @10:39PM (#27260617)

This pains me physically to read, haha.

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Re:Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS... by aitchnyu on Monday May 24, 2021 @03:11AM (#27261739)

We used this Django feature as a poor man's Sentry years back.

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Re:Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS... by OJFord on Sunday May 23, 2021 @07:11PM (#27259472)

Not to mention the free tier.

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