Awesome work! Always nice to see new widgets be created 😄
Mailjet Plugin and nodeBB v1.16
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Hey Julian,
Mailgun bought Mailjet a while ago. So are now a company. However, they still offer different plans and services. Mailjet is probably the better alternative for European users (GDPR
). I assume that the API of Mailgun and Mailjet are nearly the same.
And yes, Mailjet has a free plan. (6,000 emails per month / 200 emails per day).
https://www.mailjet.com/pricing/Thank you for your commitment!
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@1castro Well....
One of the four key Laws of Ecology comes to mind here.
Namely: There is no such thing as a free lunch!
Hence, if you are not paying for the product/service then you ARE the product. I am US based but do enable the GDPR stuff on my site (heh, which seems to incite more confusion & distrust than clarity among my predominantly non geek US user base) so I am curious as to how they can offer such w/o going bankrupt? Conversion to paid once exceeding the free use limits? Hmm...
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@gotwf
Everything basically correct. But still I am confused. Because who says that I want to be a product? I want a service of a certain quality and of course I pay for it. (By the way - I don't use the trial plan)
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Well... y'all uttered thusly:
@1castro said in Mailjet Plugin and nodeBB v1.16:
[....]And yes, Mailjet has a free plan. (6,000 emails per month / 200 emails per day).
So I thought relevant, no?
@julian said in Mailjet Plugin and nodeBB v1.16:
@gotwf one wonders what the actual overhead is of sending email... Especially if you don't allow attachments (in free plans, for example)... It seems fairly minimal in theory...
Not so much for sending. Well, w/the caveat that, DKIM ups the ante a fair bit - wh/is one of several reasons I am not a fan. And yeah, I grok that it does help on the mitigation front. I just don't cotton to centralizing one of the greatest federated systems ever designed.
Incoming, otoh, takes some doing lest you want buttloads of spam and other malicious crap. Server side spam filtering and anti-virus scanning require a fair bit more horsepower. Not to mention the demand/expectation for webmail UI's that are too often too easy to crack.
But yeah, strip it all down to bare bones, circa the nineties, and it's is not so bad...
P.S.; I am, of course, for the sake of discussion, not including the true cost of such: Sysadmin manpower and time.
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@1castro Thanks for letting me know about the merger/acquisition, and the GDPR bit. It means something to me, so I'll have to take a closer look and update the plugin.
It will not be immediate, though, as I have other work on my plate
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