Transactional Email with AlphaMail (opens in new tab)

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36 pointsalemhnan12y ago16 comments

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bdunn12y ago· 2 in thread

Looks nice. Has anyone tried tailoring one of these services to appeal to client <-> developer relationships? e.g. selling "your clients can easily edit the emails your app sends out without bugging you / requiring a redeploy."

That seems doable with something like alphamail, but I've yet to see a service that targets that specific need.

twerquie12y ago

PostageApp (http://postageapp.com) targets that specific need. Web-editable templates, including separated CSS and attachments which are flattened at send time. It's like a CMS for your transactional email.

alemhnanOP12y ago

To me is quite a deal breaker so far. The code on our website with Amail is really really more simple (no template engine for instance). And they give you out of the box a ton of analytics (geolocalization, bounce, click, open) even for singular mails.

Like Amazon SES on steroids.

P.S. Not affiliate with amail, just an enthusiastic user. We are using that at CoffeeStrap and we just saved a lot of time in development.

kimlelly12y ago· 2 in thread

Email is an obsolete technology, since it's centralized and its meta data is never encrypted. Therefor it's perfect for interception and surveillance. We should abandon it.

I suggest we replace Email with a superior solution: http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/

JoachimSchipper12y ago

Please stop spamming RetroShare.

kimlelly12y ago

I don't consider this comment to be SPAM. It's a relevant comment, the solution is entirely non-commercial and open-source and there are still tons of people on HN who don't encrypt.

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jaredstenquist12y ago

This is a great concept. I've been a long time user of PostmarkApp, which has served me extremely well, but requires a lot of coding time to create and deploy new emails. If you've ever created HTML emails, you know the pain I'm talking about.

My only concern is the deliverability, but I'm intrigued enough to give it a try seeing as how there's a free tier.

mtrimpe12y ago

I was just thinking that I really needed a service like this.

One feature I really need though would be support for internationalization, since creating a separate project for each language is quite annoying (and the reason why I'm not using MixPanel Engage.)

Do you have plans for supporting that? If you could integrate with OneSky that would be even better! :)

LogicX12y ago

Another for the chart: http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/transactional-emailin...

daigoba6612y ago

I get that this includes an e-mail template editor. But I can't understand what I get with this product that I don't get with something like Amazon SES. The cost of SES is a fraction of AlphaMail.

michaelmior12y ago

Looks really cool. Love the interface. FWIW, the first step of the demo had some elements offscreen and unreadable. I could also never make it to the editor.

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