Support for email servers other than Mailgun

[ianrenton]

As far as I can tell, Mailgun's free tier now only allows sending to pre-authorised email addresses - essentially a test function - rather than any email address a commenter might use. The cheapest tier upgrade available through Heroku is $19 a month, which is much more than the "subscribe to comments" feature is worth for me. I have therefore disabled the feature on my website.

In future it would be nice if other mail sending solutions were available instead of just Mailgun.

[hispanic]

As far as I can tell, Mailgun's free tier now only allows sending to pre-authorised email addresses...
@ianrenton Why not sign-up for a Flex plan? It's ¢80 for 1000 emails. Seems plenty affordable to me.

[ianrenton]

I can't see an option for that through Heroku. Mailgun's website does show it though, maybe it's only available for non-Heroku Mailgun accounts?

[hispanic]

I'm not familiar with the linked Heroku-Mailgun option. Sorry. My Mailgun account is stand-alone.

[ianrenton]

OK, I'll give it a try with a standalone Mailgun account. If nothing else it might be worth mentioning the disparity in the Staticman docs; most users with small static sites are likely to find the stand-alone option better since it has the extra more affordable tariff!

[Soremojinsen]

Wouldn't it be preferable to consider allowing any SMTP server for sending emails, thus enhancing flexibility?