[acabal]

I managed my own mail server for scribophile.com for a year or two. Figuring out how to reliably send email is a complete nightmare and as much black magic as it is engineering. When I finally had to move to new hosting, the thought of having to migrate my email server settings and basically starting over scared the crap out of me. That's when I discovered Sendgrid, and I've been using them since then. Whatever their monthly cost is, it's worth it for not having to deal with the email configuration nightmare.

[ajtaylor]

Hear, hear! At $work we started using Sendgrid last month, and it's worth 10x the money we pay every month (Silver level is $80/mo for 300k emails). Our usage will be ramping up over the coming months, and I feel so much more secure knowing that the chances of getting on a blacklist are greatly reduced because of Sendgrid.

[ams6110]

Related, anyone know of anyone providing hosted mailing lists, e.g. ezmlm or mailman? I've been looking for someone providing this and not finding much of anything.

[bmelton]

Have you looked at Mailchimp? It's not as much for transactional emails as it is for scheduled, repeated broadcast emails, so I suspect it's probably more along the lines of what you're looking for.

I know they also provide the web interface (and APIs) for allowing users to subscribe, unsubscribe and all that jazz.

[diminish]

I am using mailchimp for multiple clients, and AWS simple email sending for some transactional clients; they are all quite helpful. Anyone recommending sendgrid, why is it a better choice?