[preommr]

Yea, I don't know why mailchimp is so expensive.

Sendgrid is pretty good. I like it's UI and from what I've seen it has feature parity for things like marketing campaigns.

I think it just comes down to using a combination of strategies depending on the need.

Postfix - internal mailing

Amazon SES - One off emails for things like apis where trust/reputation still matter

sendgrid/moosend/etc - marketing campaigns and they also do transactional emails too, I guess. This should be around 15-30 bucks.

[chheplo]

Thank you. One thing I was looking into was integrating my user DB with subscribe/preferences/unsubscribe link that is being sent with each email. Mailchimp does it very well. I am not sure I can integrate my Django user model with sendgrid, but I will sure check it out.