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  5. Postmark vs SMTP

Postmark vs SMTP

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Overview

Postmark
Postmark
Stacks347
Followers184
Votes52
SMTP
SMTP
Stacks23
Followers10
Votes0

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Detailed Comparison

Postmark
Postmark
SMTP
SMTP

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

It is a premium email delivery and email relay solution that enables you to send and track high volume emails effortlessly. Integrate and start sending in minutes.

Create a new virtual server- Instant access to our infrastructure, no waiting required. Create as many servers as you want, for each of your web applications and environments.;Drop code into your app- Swap in our SMTP endpoint, or get started with our APIs using one of our send API libraries for Ruby, Rails, .NET, Python, PHP, and more.;Send emails and track delivery- A beautiful interface to monitor volume, bounces, spam complaints, and send activity. View full email content to troubleshoot issues.;Parse replies & other inbound email- Let Postmark automatically convert email replies into simple JSON documents and send them into to your application for processing.
Dedicated IP; Email API; 24X7 Customer support; High volume sending plans; List verification
Statistics
Stacks
347
Stacks
23
Followers
184
Followers
10
Votes
52
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 18
    Simple
  • 10
    Great analytics
  • 8
    Email, done right
  • 5
    Easy setup
  • 5
    Heroku Add-on
Cons
  • 1
    No 24x7 support
No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available
WordPress
WordPress
Gmail
Gmail
Google Docs
Google Docs
Airtable
Airtable
Wufoo
Wufoo
Trello
Trello
Google Sheets
Google Sheets
Slack
Slack
Shopify
Shopify
Google Forms
Google Forms

What are some alternatives to Postmark, SMTP?

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.

sendwithus

sendwithus

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.

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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