Ask HN: Looking for email delivery for 500k subscribers

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Hey HN,

I run a site that has 500k email subscribers, and were looking to do a big mass mailing campaign in the upcoming months.

We are planning on sending close to 6 campaigns (so 3 million emails) in one month. What is the best solution for us to role this out? Were looking for something our non-technical marketing guy can use, but that I can set up.

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MailChimp allows you to buy credits as you go, or pay them monthly by subscriber count. It's also built for marketers so after importing your list there your marketing guy should be fine.

If you're looking to do it cheaper, SendGrid offers a newsletter function that's less easy to use and has less features but will allow you to do it cheaper.

Mailchimp is really, really expensive for anything this size. I contacted SendGrid & so far they look like the front runners

I would recommend Amazon SES (http://aws.amazon.com/ses/) Take a look at http://sendy.co/ as it's a PHP script if you don't want to write your own.

I use sendy for a personal project, but amazon SES limits you to 10k emails a day. For our use case, we need to send 500k in one day. Anyone have experience requesting a higher send limit with SES?

What about https://postmarkapp.com/pricing would that be an option for you?

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