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by 44gg44gg 1400 days ago
What is a good SMTP service these days in 2022? It beyond frustrating that every provider is now blocking SMTP.
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Sendgrid and Postmark do a solid job.

Mailgun still didn’t automatically rotate DKIM keys last time I looked, otherwise I’d rate them much higher. That one thing creates a detail I don’t want to have to worry about.

> Mailgun still didn’t automatically rotate DKIM keys last time I looked, otherwise I’d rate them much higher.

Not only do they not automatically rotate them, there's no functionality to manually rotate them either. The only thing you can do is delete the configuration for your domain entirely and recreate it, which of course nukes your Event log. Hopefully they are working to address this...

I'm pretty happy with Twilio SendGrid.
Happy for a service which only lets you look at 3 days worth of logs until you pay more just to see more logs?

Besides, their technical skill is pretty poor when their site shows "page not found" of some sort on log in process for a split second and when you try to search through the logs, they will quickly show you that I've made excessive access after less than 10 searches.

They had an incident on themselves and I asked them to resend the emails that they failed to send and support couldn't do that and that got us off of SendGrid.

Large free plan limit is the only good part about SendGrid.

> their technical skill is pretty poor when their site shows "page not found" of some sort on log in process for a split second and when you try to search through the logs

This is typical of single page apps. They have a default state of "no data" and then they update it when they get a response.

Twilio just had 125 customers get hacked thanks to a social engineering attack including ones like Signal.
Mailgun and Postmark are both pretty good.
+1 for postmark. Wildbit also always cared about their users, I hope the new owners of postmark will continue this.
Wildbit is fantastic but unfortunately the new owners are known for very poor products and service. Fingers crossed though because Postmark has been the beacon of hope for a couple of years now.
I'm still enjoying using Mailgun. No problems there so far... knock on wood.
Have a look at MailPace if you want something run by a bootstrapped team and you care about privacy (EU hosting).
Horribly frustrating.

It seems SES or mailgun are the primary options these days.

Mailgun here. Just works, pretty cheap.
AWS SES