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I've had some negative experiences working with SendGrid a few years ago, but honestly I think they've improved a great deal in the last couple of years. Some stuff still could use some improvements (API, UI) but it felt a lot more stable and reliable last time I used it.

Still, I miss Mandrill the most.

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Mandrill was amazing. Then they jacked up the price and tossed it into MailChimp.

I kinda love that they jacked the price up so the delivery is great. The only thing that i hate is (i use the SMTP endpoint) is that the BCC does not work.

BCC is probably disabled to discourage you from using mandrill for mass/marketing emails.

no, it kinda works, but not like a regular email. like when i send some email with to: contact@abc.com with bcc: we@def.com the receiver of the bcc sees the full email header and sees who the original receiver is. but with mandrill you simply get two emails, one for the original receiver and one for bcc, both send with to fields, the bcc recipient does not see who the original recipient is

They put me on a spam IP 2 months ago & i wasn't able to deliver to outlook, account got disabled later that day for 'abuse'. Same for Mailgun without the account being disabled, although they quickly switched me to a different IP and it was fixed. It has given me anxiety about deliverability, even with domain and everything configured correctly you could just be put on a bad IP, especially for low-priced options.

I thought Mandrill used a range of sending IPs so this wouldn't be an issue? It's seem very lame if they just shard accounts across a IPs.

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