Ask HN: Email Service Provider For Web Apps

[apedley]

I know all about companies such as Mail Chimp and aweber but they seem more for email campaigns to a group of people. Yet with each public app I create I need to add email capabilities for password resets, confirmations or notifications. Is there a company that I can integrate with that would do this for me.

So I would just call an API method saying, send an email to this email, with this template (that I preloaded in their system) and this data. Then I could use the companies email tracking capabilities, unsubscribe and other list management functionality without having to do it all on my site.

[there]

http://sendgrid.com/

[apedley]

thanks, looks great.

[jranck]

Amazon: http://aws.amazon.com/ses/

Rackspace: http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/

[aquark]

I use SES (from C#) and it integrated very painlessly and seems to work flawlessly.

Between EC2/S3/Cloudfront/SES Amazon offers a very compelling suite of products that no-one else has replicated. Sure they may not be absolutely the best and certainly not the cheapest, but the single vendor benefit is great.

[jeffepp]

http://postmarkapp.com - we love it.

[nodesocket]

postmarkapp.com is amazing. They have API's and also standard SMTP provider.

[apedley]

Thanks, certainly looks promising. I have a few to checkout now.

[markerdmann]

http://mailgun.net/

[apedley]

very close, but Mailgun are programmable mail boxes, I can easily do the coding for sending emails etc, I already have that, I was more after the list management and list statistics/tracking when sending emails.