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I moved to mailgun after the mandrill "incident" and I have been very happy since. I hope the service will stay stable!

Out of curiousity (either I missed it or I forgot) what was the Mandrill incident?

Mandrill became part of the Mailchimp subscription. Only for paid accounts. Basically making costs for low-traffic projects way higher than they used to be if you didn't use Mailchimp with Mandrill. (Mailchimp subscriptions start at 10 $ a month)

https://mandrill.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/217467117

Not to mention they changed their volume pricing - we had to switch because our costs were going to quadruple.

I got burned by Mandrill as well, even though I pay Mailchimp $59 a month.

After all the hate mail they recieved they opened up a free Mandrill plan if you are a paying Mailchimp customer. Who knows how long that will last though.

Basically I just recommend Mailgun or AWS SES now.

Same here. I couldn't be happier. Well, sometimes their support can take 24+ hours to respond to an issue, but other than that Mailgun is amazing.

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