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  5. Mailgun vs Postfix vs SendGrid

Mailgun vs Postfix vs SendGrid

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Overview

Twilio SendGrid
Twilio SendGrid
Stacks11.1K
Followers5.7K
Votes720
Mailgun
Mailgun
Stacks7.8K
Followers4.2K
Votes656
Postfix
Postfix
Stacks136
Followers127
Votes0

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Detailed Comparison

Twilio SendGrid
Twilio SendGrid
Mailgun
Mailgun
Postfix
Postfix

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

It is a free and open-source mail transfer agent that routes and delivers electronic mail. It is Wietse Venema's mail server that started life at IBM research as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Now at Google, Wietse continues to support it.

Open Tracking;Click Tracking;Unsubscribe Tracking;SMTP Relay;SMTP API;Web API;DKIM;SPF;Reputation Monitoring;ISP Monitoring;Domain Level Load Balancing;ISP Deliverability Outreach;Return Path Certified Partner;Support via Phone, Chat, Email, Online Support Portal
Optimized Queue;Scheduled Delivery;MIME Assembly;Test Mode;ESP Feedback Handling;Unsubscribe Handling;Spam Complaint Handling;Bounce Handling;HTTP POST to your App;Routing w RegEx Filters;Parsing to UTF-8;Signature Separation;Quoted Reply Separation;Wildcard Domains;Spam Filtering;Live Logs;Message Tagging;Event Webhooks;Open/Click Tracking;Unsubscribe Tracking;Complaint Tracking;Bounce Tracking;Mailing Lists;Template Variables;A/B Testing;Link Performance;Geo Performance;Recipient Level Data;SMTP or HTTP API;Clean IP Addresses;SPF Authentication;DKIM Authentication;SSL/TLS;Scales on Demand
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Statistics
Stacks
11.1K
Stacks
7.8K
Stacks
136
Followers
5.7K
Followers
4.2K
Followers
127
Votes
720
Votes
656
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 190
    Easy setup
  • 137
    Cheap and simple
  • 107
    Easy email integration!
  • 86
    Reliable
  • 58
    Well-documented
Cons
  • 3
    Google analytics integration is not campaign-specific
  • 1
    Shared IP blacklist removal takes months
  • 0
    Shares IP blacklist removal
Pros
  • 178
    Quick email integration
  • 148
    Free plan
  • 91
    Easy setup
  • 67
    Ridiculously reliable
  • 53
    Extensive apis
Cons
  • 2
    Cost
  • 2
    No HTTPS tracking links supported
  • 1
    Emails go to spam due to blacklisted IP's of mailgun
  • 1
    Cannot create multiple api keys
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Integrations
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure
Twilio
Twilio
Rackspace Cloud Servers
Rackspace Cloud Servers
Heroku
Heroku
Parse
Parse
Google Compute Engine
Google Compute Engine
Google App Engine
Google App Engine
CloudBees
CloudBees
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Keen
Keen
AppFog
AppFog
Magento
Magento
Ghost
Ghost
Heroku
Heroku
Rackspace Cloud Servers
Rackspace Cloud Servers
Sendicate
Sendicate
WordPress
WordPress
cloudControl
cloudControl
Parse
Parse
sendwithus
sendwithus
No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Twilio SendGrid, Mailgun, Postfix?

Mandrill

Mandrill

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

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.

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.

Sidemail

Sidemail

Sidemail is an all-in-one email delivery platform for startups that makes sending emails simple. It has everything for delivering and managing emails – email API, transactional emails, email marketing and automation, contact management, no-code email editor, email templates, subscribe forms, and more. Perfect for teams & developers that want reliable deliverability without the bloat. We're based in the EU and GDPR compliant.

EmailVerify.io

EmailVerify.io

Free email verifier & checker to validate email addresses instantly. Reduce bounces and verify emails in real time.

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