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Ask HN: Email Service Provider For Web Apps

5 points by apedley ↗ HN
I know all about companies such as Mail Chimp and aweber but they seem more for email campaigns to a group of people. Yet with each public app I create I need to add email capabilities for password resets, confirmations or notifications. Is there a company that I can integrate with that would do this for me.

So I would just call an API method saying, send an email to this email, with this template (that I preloaded in their system) and this data. Then I could use the companies email tracking capabilities, unsubscribe and other list management functionality without having to do it all on my site.

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markerdmann
http://mailgun.net/
apedley
very close, but Mailgun are programmable mail boxes, I can easily do the coding for sending emails etc, I already have that, I was more after the list management and list statistics/tracking when sending emails.
nodesocket
postmarkapp.com is amazing. They have API's and also standard SMTP provider.
apedley
Thanks, certainly looks promising. I have a few to checkout now.
jranck
Amazon: http://aws.amazon.com/ses/

Rackspace: http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/

aquark
I use SES (from C#) and it integrated very painlessly and seems to work flawlessly.

Between EC2/S3/Cloudfront/SES Amazon offers a very compelling suite of products that no-one else has replicated. Sure they may not be absolutely the best and certainly not the cheapest, but the single vendor benefit is great.