The monkey has left the building aka Mandrill Free Transactional Email is EOL

Posted by RockSoup on February 29, 2016 at 9:46pm

How is that for a title? :)

We use Mandrill for many of our clients for handling transactional emails and ♥ it, you may remember us talking about it at a prior meeting. Now they are closing their free service and we are sad. Many of our clients will likely be looking to move to some other provider that offers a free option for the relatively small amount of transactional emails they send. So, I have some questions:

Is this change also affecting you?
If so, what are you planning to do? Move to different service? Pony up for Mailchimp paid plan?

Thanks!

Comments

Mandrill alternatives with free levels

Posted by jdwalling on February 29, 2016 at 11:18pm

Acquia: Using a third-party email service
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Is Mandrill Done?
Five Alternatives for Your Transactional Email
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1. SendinBlue https://www.sendinblue.com/pricing/
2. Mailjet https://www.mailjet.com/
3. SendGrid https://sendgrid.com/
4. Mailgun https://www.mailgun.com/
5. Amazon SES https://aws.amazon.com/ses/

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SendGrid

Posted by marcshor on February 29, 2016 at 11:18pm

I recently started using SendGrid to handle my emails on a Pantheon site. I have used it solely for site responses, e.g. lost password requests and webform emails, and it's been working great. Easy to configure, easy to set up, and 400 emails per day (12,000 per month) free, which means I don't have to store any bananas to feed the monkeys!

anyone tried sendwithus.com?

Posted by abeyer on February 29, 2016 at 11:58pm

I've seen them advertising around a bunch of the discussions about mandrill, and signed up for the free tier, but didn't actually do anything with it yet. They don't provide email delivery themselves, but rather an api & ui & some prebuilt features (templates, analytics, a/b testing, litmus client testing, drip campaigns) that you can layer on top of an email service provider for delivery. (or even just an smtp server)

While I'm not a huge fan of yet another vendor dependency, it would be nice to pick email delivery provider based on just delivering the email, and then get nice integration and api from someone else.

I would concur with SendGrid.

Posted by jeremyrperry on March 1, 2016 at 12:11am

I would concur with SendGrid. It's free for under 12k emails a month, and reasonably priced for anything above.

Yet another...

Posted by mikeker on March 1, 2016 at 1:00am

... vote for SendGrid.

I'm on their pay-as-go plan for a client and it's $1/month with the occasional spike to $2 when they go crazy.

Great delivery rates, good admin interface.

Things I don't like (and I haven't checked recently to see if this has been changed):

No two factor auth. (lame!)
No ability to have other users on the same account which complicates me setting things up and having client pay for it without letting go of the account credentials.
Mike

Pepipost - Free SMTP alternative to Mandrill

Posted by isachintiwari on March 1, 2016 at 11:47am

Pepipost : http://www.pepipost.com/

Free plan and send up to 25,000 emails each month. Free forever.
No credit card required.
DKIM is not required (Domain Verification: (a.) Meta Tag Validation, (b.) File Creation - System can verify the domain based on the presence of a file in the root directory of the domain.).
Pay only for emails that are not opened by your customers.
3 Months Free Unlimited Transactional Emails + 25k emails per month free forever.
Use the below Invitation code while signup with Pepipost.

Invitation Code:
MANDRILL-TO-PEPI

Great! This is probably the best FREE alternative for Mandrill.