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by jmduke 2439 days ago
I'm using a combination of Mailgun and Postmark to send emails, and heartily recommend them both.
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A combination of? Aren't they largely the same product? I'm just curious why you'd be using both.
Not the OP but I wouldn't be surprised if they use both for different purposes. Postmark has extremely high delivery rates but is very particular about primarily sending transactional email like account updates, receipts, etc. They did recently add bulk API messages but it seems like a higher tier feature.

Mailgun is much more flexible about what they allow to go through their servers, but they have correspondingly lower delivery rates.

Yup, precisely. I use Postmark for transactional emails and a very small subset of bulk emails; Mailgun handles everything else.