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sendgrid alternative for free?
Oldmanasking
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I hardly send 10 or 20 emails per day , What is the best alternative? some thing also easy to use for smtp
I am an old man please bear with me 
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The end is Amitzly nigh on this one.
Amazon SES is free or virtually free (pennies per month...maybe per year) for that volume.
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Yup. Always-Free has 62k outbound and 1000 inbound messages free per month (when called from EC2/Beanstalk).
Thanks I always find it hard to use amazon ses . It is too complicated for me
I am an old man please bear with me
mailgun it's free for up to 10k/month
Config is simple
https://www.mailjet.com/pricing/ 200 emails per day on free account.
Do SendGrid no longer offer a 100/day free plan anymore?
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"Popping in now and again".
I am just thinking in advance just for backup purpose and playing around with other options
I am an old man please bear with me
since there is another thread on oracle cloud free tier - maybe convenient to use them if you already have an account - 1000 emails always-free per month
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free
mailgun may be best choice,
if you are sending transactional mails, sparkpost has higher limit.
As a bonus, Sparkpost will block your account on the very first spam report. So, one recipient can block all your outgoing email by just hitting the spam button. You can contact the support team to get this resolved, but this is rather inconvenient and according to the Murphy's law it will always happen at the most inconvenient time and place.
Note that I send solicited, opted-in messages only and not ads or any other marketing stuff.
I contacted Sparkpost if something could be done to prevent this, like skipping one or two complaints, but this was not possible, so I moved away from SparkPost.
I am pretty happy with Amazon SES, which seems hard to setup, but really isn't. Just read the documentation and it will be done in no time. Amazon is also more realistic about bounces and complaints by having relative, properly documented thresholds.
Well, basically they are now Mailgun: https://www.mailgun.com/blog/mailgun-acquires-european-competitor-mailjet/
Their free plan sucks. Most of the IPs are in RBLs and they simply don't care.
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Well, I used them before but it turns out, that every free option I have tried, still keeps banged IP's in the pool rotation.
So suggest wait for BF and get a 10$/y MXRoute.
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i like mxroute
Mesa like too...
...although the oldmanisasking for a free sendgrid alternative.
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But only in Ashburn and Phoenix-DC.
Mailgun,sendinblue,mailjet (now acquired by mailgun)
Sendgrid still offers 100 mails a day.. if I am not wrong..
and SES charges you like 1$/1000 mails.. if you want a cheap option
switched from Sendgrid to mailgun after some issues, i'm happy again now