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    Postmark Blog

    blog.postmarkapp.com · Company blog · on HN since 2010

    The Postmark team writes about transactional email delivery, deliverability, inbound email processing and the infrastructure behind their service.

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    DevOps & CloudWeb Development
    What HN says

    Commenters recommend it for insight into the variables affecting email delivery, and cite its argument that dedicated IPs are less important than often claimed.

    Stats for nerds
    20HN people shared it
    23linked in comments
    497story points
    Oct 2015last shared
    2011people per year2015

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Postmark introduces easy inbound email processing for all accounts
      1 person · 162 points · first shared 2012 · 62 comments on HN
    2. 2
      Bye, MongoDB. Hello, Cloudant
      1 person · 150 points · first shared 2012 · 44 comments on HN
    3. 3
      Designing a modern email
      1 person · 60 points · first shared 2013 · 66 comments on HN
    4. 4
      Retrospective from Postmark on outages (MongoDB)
      1 person · 46 points · first shared 2012 · 18 comments on HN
    5. 5
      The false promises of dedicated IPs for email deliverability
      4 people · 18 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
    6. 6
      How we keep Postmark fast through performance testing
      1 person · 8 points · first shared 2013 · Discussion on HN
    7. 7
      Postmark Inbound with Node & CouchDB (screencast & code)
      1 person · 8 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
    8. 8
      Bounced Welcome Emails: Your customers are telling you “no thanks”
      1 person · 7 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
    9. 9
      Best practices for sending personalized transactional email
      1 person · 6 points · first shared 2015 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      Automated testing at Postmark
      1 person · 6 points · first shared 2013 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • vangaleOct 2015

      I'm surprised as well, since these services reinforce his point even more. In other words, good reputation = $$$.

      Also, I currently use mailgun (and dabbling with mandrill on some new projects) but I'm intrigued by postmarkapp.com take on dedicated IP addresses. Apparently they won't sell dedicated IP addresses because of the time needed to warm them up, so you get a shared IP and their TOS is stricter anti-spam than other ESP's: http://blog.postmarkapp.com/post/14127210172/the-false-promises-of-dedicated-ips

    • alexknowshtmlJan 2012

      So glad you're happy with Postmark and thanks for the kudos - the entire team really appreciates it.

      37S is doing a great job with all of their techniques. Of course, they also have an incredible sending volume on their side that helps improve the impact of any of these techniques.

      One of the biggest benefits of our approach at Postmark is that you get those same benefits regardless of your send volume: http://blog.postmarkapp.com/post/14127210172/the-false-promises-of-dedicated-ips

    • relixJan 2011

      I dropped the idea of using Postmark after I read this blog-post: http://blog.postmarkapp.com/post/1431120311/oddities-in-gmail-delivery-adaptive-filters

      In there they admit that mails sent through Postmark still end up in Spam-folders or black holes. That was basically the only added value I'd get from using them.

    • ricardobeatJul 2011

      I'd also recommend subscribing to a dedicated mail service. There are dozens of variables that affect your mail delivery. You should read the postmark blog (http://blog.postmarkapp.com/) for a peek into those.

    • ceejayozJul 2012

      Some argue that dedicated IPs aren't all that important:
      http://blog.postmarkapp.com/post/14127210172/the-false-promises-of-dedicated-ips

    • mtmailAug 2015

      Postmark added a pretty powerful editor
      http://blog.postmarkapp.com/post/125849089273/special-delivery-postmark-templates

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