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by ThePhysicist 3744 days ago
Sure you could do that, but I think the maintenance cost would by far outweigh any price advantage you could get.

Honestly, Mandrill's pricing with 0.2$/1000 mails puts you at 200 $ for sending 1 million e-mails, which corresponds to maybe 1-2 hours of developer time. Designing, building and maintaining a system that sends mail through 4-6 different APIs will likely be much more expensive.

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> which corresponds to maybe 1-2 hours of developer time

There are companies in the world that pay developers less than $100/hr - $200/hr.

In fact, there are companies in the USA where developers get paid $20/hr.