On Tue, 9 Jan 2024, Rich Shepard wrote:
Has anyone here experiences with SendGrid or MailJet? If so, please
share them with me, good and bad.
I use SendGrid for outbound mail from madboa.com because most large
mail services nowadays don't trust one-off cloud VMs to send mail.
(Which isn't stupid, per se, but is frustrating since I have gone out
of the way to do all the right things regarding DMARC, DKIM, SPF,
etc.)
Anyway, I use smtp.sendgrid.net as my relay host; it requires a (free,
for me, since I don't send much mail) API key to use.
It mostly works. There are two irritations for me:
First, sendgrid must either sell its mailing list or there is a known
way to harvest sendgrid user accounts because I get phishing/spam
concerning (not from, just concerning) sendgrid with some frequency.
Second, if you send mail to a non-existent account, you don't get a
direct SMTP notice. I've had to log into sendgrid's web interface to
inspect and/or empty that list. Until you remove the address from that
online list, you can't send mail to it again. (This is an issue for me
at work, for reasons I don't care to explain here.)
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Paul Heinlein
heinl...@madboa.com
45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W
