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Emails: Use a service or do it yourself?

Looking for email services recommendations. I'll need to send emails for: 

- verification 
- daily reminders & status updates
- weekly updates
- notifications (likes & comments) likely batched

In the past I've used sendmail and postfix but I only needed to send emails to people in my own domain or company. 

What tools do you have the best experience with? Any advice on a third party service? Anything I'm missing?



Stevan Ljuljdurovic
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@Navetz

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Sendgrid is the best/easiest I’ve used for transactional emails like this.

For marketing you’ll want to use a separate service and from address. Lots of good email marketing services out there. Kit is one I’ve used a lot, Bento Mail is the new one people are excited about.

The important thing is to keep your marketing and your transactional emails separate. People will endless click the “never fucking email me again” button on marketing emails then get super pissy with you for not sending them an invoice email.

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Thanks for the advice! Do you recommend putting marketing emails and transactional emails on separate subdomains?

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Vivian Guillen
@vivgui

I recommend loops.so/, we use it on bootstraplogos.com and have had no issues. They recently increase their free plan limits and the UI is very good.

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thanks for the recommendation it seems like great pricing

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Rod
@rrmdp

For transactional check out Resend

For Marketing, I use EO (Up to 2500 contacts and 10000 emails per month for free), this is my affiliate link, if you ever go to the paid plan I get $15 and you get $15 emailoctopus.com/?urli=TMW5t

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Was using sendgrid because it worked and never looked further. Then it suddenly stopped sending to hotmail addresses (25% of user base). I never spam. Only login links / signup notification / alerts users have set themselves.

Switched to Postmark, I was using for another project already. A breeze.

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