Hey folks, I'm looking for a small (not too expensive) email sending service like sendgrid to use with my small website for SMTP sending. We use google workspace, which makes sending SMTP email notoriously hard, sendgrid used to work really well but they went and closed my account. Anyone know any others that are good?

I have used Mailgun (https://www.mailgun.com/) in the past. They even have a free tier that lets you send up to 100 emails a day - Perfect for a small website. If you at any point need to do more, they also offer to store your email templates in their system. You will be able to merge whatever data into those templates by using Handlebars markup (https://handlebarsjs.com/). You need to use their API for that to work though.

Ah nice - thanks Soren, I'll take a look 🙂

There's also https://www.mailjet.com/products/email-api/smtp-relay/

Mailjet also do a lovely email templating system.

I didn’t know they took that over! I quite liked mjml

Michael Jackson Markup Language?!?! Cool!

Been playing with Azure Communication Services. Should be pretty cheap as it’s consumption based.

Yeah know how you feel. I am kind of soured on sendgrid, had a personal account for testing, and everytime i go to use it they've closed the account, and theres a whole process to go through to reopen it.

Proton Mail are probably worth a look. https://proton.me/mail

We using MailJet at work but I would recommend looking at MailGun which I’ve used for my own projects. Other then that SendInBlue also seems nice ✉️🎛️📬

For some time I've chained things onwards to SendInBlue, which later became Brevo, as it had a generous free tier which was more than adequate for the small amount of emails I send through it. However just checking it again today it seems they're embedding those tracking pixels into any emails which go through there now with no obvious option to disable it. I wouldn't mind that for campaigns/newsletters, but not everyday one off or transactional emails which are not marketing related. I'm sure that wasn't there when I originally set all this up, so I may have to relook at this now!

I've set MailGun up now and liking it so far - does the trick pretty well 🙂

If it's useful - I think MailGun and MailJet are related/owned by the same company. MailJet is based in France I think but I prefer MailGun as a simple SMTP relay sender and you're able to specify EU servers rather than US based servers, if you need to.

just an FYI; MJML = MailJet Markup Language Also; Mailgun is afaik now the underlying platform for MailJet (both owned by Sinch)