The title is a little bit misleading as the community version is still available and MIT licensed.
Maintaining an open source project like Nodemailer is tough work and I understand the author's approach. While open source is gratifying, it is very much an energy drain.
The pricing is inline with what 'Big Co.' would pay although I would consider email to be within reach of any respectable developer and not justifying a recurring 780euros/year. That's probably the "I'd rather do it myself" side of me talking rather than a pragmatic thought.
Best of luck to the maintainer Andris Reinman and many thanks for having brought Nodemailer where it is now.
The "pro" is a substantial re-write. I threw out code that I do not own (like the NTLM authentication) or that wasn't used (rfc822 parsing), fixed some stuff (OAuth), rewrote some parts (DKIM), added some new features (DSN), started using ES6 syntax in the entire codebase and bundled all previously separated modules into a single one which means that installation from npm should take less than 2 seconds.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 51.8 ms ] threadMaintaining an open source project like Nodemailer is tough work and I understand the author's approach. While open source is gratifying, it is very much an energy drain.
The pricing is inline with what 'Big Co.' would pay although I would consider email to be within reach of any respectable developer and not justifying a recurring 780euros/year. That's probably the "I'd rather do it myself" side of me talking rather than a pragmatic thought.
Best of luck to the maintainer Andris Reinman and many thanks for having brought Nodemailer where it is now.
And apparently completely unmaintained.
The "Why Pro" text reads like the new "pro" version is either a substantial re-write or a complete rewrite.