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  5. Postal vs sendwithus

Postal vs sendwithus

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Overview

sendwithus
sendwithus
Stacks64
Followers51
Votes58
Postal
Postal
Stacks24
Followers81
Votes0

Postal vs sendwithus: What are the differences?

What is Postal? Open source mail delivery platform, alternative to Mailgun or Sendgrid. Postal is a complete and fully featured mail server for use by websites & web servers. Think Sendgrid, Mailgun or Postmark but open source and ready for you to run on your own servers. Postal was developed by aTech Media to serve its own mail processing requirements and we have since decided that it should be released as an open source project for the community.

What is sendwithus? Email automation for developers + testing and analytics for marketers. Send email from your app with a simple API call, Sendwithus manages the rest. Templates, testing, data management, segments, and analytics are all accessible through a friendly dashboard.

Postal and sendwithus can be categorized as "Transactional Email" tools.

Postal is an open source tool with 9.02K GitHub stars and 533 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Postal's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

sendwithus
sendwithus
Postal
Postal

Send email from your app with a simple API call, Sendwithus manages the rest. Templates, testing, data management, segments, and analytics are all accessible through a friendly dashboard.

Postal is a complete and fully featured mail server for use by websites & web servers. Think Sendgrid, Mailgun or Postmark but open source and ready for you to run on your own servers. Postal was developed by aTech Media to serve its own mail processing requirements and we have since decided that it should be released as an open source project for the community.

A/B testing; analytics; click tracking; internationalization; multi-user support; version control; drip campaigns; segmentation; CSS inlining; snippet library; deliverability tracking; segment integration; Zapier integration
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Statistics
Stacks
64
Stacks
24
Followers
51
Followers
81
Votes
58
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 10
    Easy setup
  • 8
    Replacement tokens/templated emails
  • 7
    Works with sendgrid/mandrill/mailgun
  • 7
    Html template editor
  • 7
    Great analytics
Cons
  • 1
    Conversions don't quite seem to work
No community feedback yet
Integrations
Postmark
Postmark
Dyn
Dyn
Mandrill
Mandrill
Segment
Segment
Stripe
Stripe
Amazon SES
Amazon SES
Mailgun
Mailgun
Mailjet
Mailjet
Zapier
Zapier
Twilio SendGrid
Twilio SendGrid
Ruby
Ruby
MySQL
MySQL
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ
Node.js
Node.js
Git
Git

What are some alternatives to sendwithus, Postal?

Mandrill

Mandrill

Mandrill is a new way for apps to send transactional email. It runs on the delivery infrastructure that powers MailChimp.

Twilio SendGrid

Twilio SendGrid

Twilio SendGrid's cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. Twilio SendGrid provides reliable delivery, scalability & real-time analytics along with flexible API's.

Mailgun

Mailgun

Mailgun is a set of powerful APIs that allow you to send, receive, track and store email effortlessly.

Amazon SES

Amazon SES

Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email service. The service integrates with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon EC2.

Postmark

Postmark

Postmark removes the headaches of delivering and parsing email for webapps with minimal setup time and zero maintenance.

Mailjet

Mailjet

Mailjet is a real-time Cloud Emailing platform: scalable, agile and flexible. Our unique algorithm boosts your deliverability and our platform provides in-depth insight so you can optimize more than ever.

SparkPost

SparkPost

SparkPost is the world’s #1 email delivery provider. We empower companies with actionable, real-time data to send relevant email to their customers which increases engagement and both top and bottom line revenue.

Mailtrap

Mailtrap

We offer one platform that covers all email-related needs in one place: testing, sending, and in-depth tracking to control how email infrastructure works and performs.

Apostle.io

Apostle.io

Transactional emails are the forgotten step child of internet marketers. Apostle.io empowers marketers to manage transactional emails themselves, as they would their list based campaigns. Preview, Update, Analyse and Test your transactional email all in one place.

Nodemailer

Nodemailer

It is a single module with zero dependencies – code is easily auditable. The email delivery is Secure using TLS/STARTTLS. You can use HTML content, as well as plain text alternative.

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