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Postmark stores message content and activity data for 45 days by default—that’s much longer than the competition. If 45 days is too short (or too long), with our new retention add-on you have the flexibility to adjust retention from 7-365 days. If you ever wondered if there’s a way to adjust how long Postmark stores messages and activity insights, you’re not alone. We diligently keep track of customer requests—and providing a way to customize your retention settings is one of the most popular ones. So we’re excited to share that starting today, you get to decide how long Postmark stores your data. We’ll continue to store messages and activity logs for 45 days by default (just like we do today), but with our Retention Add-on, you can pick a retention time that works best for you. Increase your data retention to up to a year and keep crucial data for

Using Amazon for email is like going to a car dealership and buying a car for 200 bucks. No other provider can match that kind of price—but there’s a catch: they give you all the individual parts, and you’ve got to put the car together yourself.  So if you don’t have a whole team to dedicate to it, are dealing with limited resources, or need to move fast, you might need to look at alternative car dealerships. And the same is true for email delivery services 😉  Here is a list of alternative providers to Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)… compiled by us, an Amazon SES alternative provider! Postmark is the only email delivery service we know inside out, so it’s also the only one we can wholeheartedly endorse. But we also know from talking to thousands of customers over the last 13 years that we are not for everybody, so we recommend that you carefully check

This piece was first emailed to 60k Postmark subscribers on Apr 26, 2023. Want to join them? You’re only a couple of clicks away 💌 Hi friend, Welcome to another issue of Postmark’s monthly newsletter, “Happy Sending,” in which we bring you industry news, useful tools, and tips for sending great emails—plus the occasional update about our product and what it can do for you. This month you’ll hear from folks who operate a top-level domain, run productivity experiments while avoiding team burnout, and make API calls within VS Code. You’ll also get some serious authentication education with a brand new 3-part video series that a reviewer described as “it’s like David Attenborough, Sigur Rós, and the email geeks had a baby” 🤯 Hey, Brad 👋 Industry news and useful tools This section is curated by Brad Becker, the Developer Relations Manager at ActiveCampaign, who describes himself as “a tech tinkerer, coffee

This piece was first emailed to 56k Postmark subscribers on Mar 29, 2023. Want to join them? You’re only a couple of clicks away 💌 Hi friend, Welcome to another issue of Postmark’s monthly newsletter, “Happy Sending,” in which we bring you industry news, useful tools, and tips for sending great emails—plus the occasional update about our product and what it can do for you. This month we ponder important questions like: should you still use plain-text emails?, will customer service be replaced by robots?, and did we just stumble upon the greatest product review of all time? (For the record, the answers are: of course, probably not, oh yes 100%.) Hey, Abdu 👋 Industry news and useful tools Today’s section is curated by our Senior Customer Success Specialist Abdullah Al-hennawy, who describes himself as a “customer helper, father of 2 beauties, lover of long walks, and recently a gym

From its very beginning in 2009 and for the entire first decade of its existence, Postmark was well-known for being laser-focused on transactional email only. Then sometime in 2020 we built a fully separate infrastructure that allows Postmark customers to also send bulk emails like product announcements, newsletters, and updates to terms-of-service……but some people (maybe including you? 😉) still don’t know we can do both!So if you came here wondering “Can I send bulk/marketing email with Postmark?,” the answer is: yes, you can! You can send all your customer communications with Postmark, and this is how you do it.  Sending promotional and marketing emails with Postmark  Postmark’s unique infrastructure routes different types of email—transactional, broadcast, and everything in between—through separate Message Streams so they all maintain optimal deliverability.  Each Message Stream you create is classified based on how your email is sent: transactional (sent to a single recipient) or broadcast (sent to multiple recipients). That classification helps us group and route emails into the right sending

This piece was first emailed to 52,427 Postmark subscribers on Feb 22, 2023. Want to join them? You’re only a couple of clicks away 💌 Hi friend, Welcome to another issue of Postmark’s monthly newsletter, “Happy Sending,” in which we bring you industry news, useful tools, and tips for sending great emails—plus the occasional update about our product and what it can do for you. This month we have a great selection of email-focused stories, from spammers using ChatGPT to write phishing emails (don’t do it!) to a Postmark customer sending emails to help communities tackle food insecurity (do it!). There is also a small music challenge for you right at the bottom, because our team has been feeling very musical and we want you to join the fun 🎶 Hey, Anna 👋 Industry news and useful tools Today, this section is curated by our Deliverability Lead Anna Ward, who

Can a list of software alternatives written by a competitor ever be unbiased? You came here looking for Mailgun alternatives, and we at Postmark offer one of them. Since ours is the only email delivery service we know inside out, it’s also the only one we can wholeheartedly endorse. So we are definitely biased. …but that doesn’t mean we can’t be helpful. We know from talking to thousands of customers over the years that our product is not for everybody, and that might include you. Hopefully, you’ll give Postmark a go after reading this page—and if it turns out it’s not the right fit for you, we recommend that you check out all the other alternatives listed below.  Your 5 Mailgun alternatives for 2023   Here is a handy spreadsheet that helps you compare SendGrid and its main alternatives and competitors on data points like pricing, documentation, and customer support.A note on methodology: we compiled this list

This piece was first emailed to 48,852 Postmark subscribers on Jan 25, 2023. Want to join them? You’re only a couple of clicks away 💌 Hi friend, Welcome to another issue of our monthly Postmark newsletter, in which we bring you industry news, useful tools, and tips for sending great emails—plus the occasional update about our product and what it can do for you. Our guests this month are a web engineer and a developer-turned-business owner, so there is a lot of good, technical stuff for you to explore. You’ll also get a great movie recommendation from our team, because email is not all we think about 😉 Hej, Jens 👋 Industry news and useful tools Today, this section is curated by our Full-Stack Developer Jens Balvig, who describes himself as a “Web developer by day, music producer by night, always one step away from a horrible skateboard accident.” 🛹Here

I recognize that many reading may not have heard from me before. I’m Erik Enge, Head of Engineering at Postmark. The goal of everything we do at Postmark is to provide a reliable email delivery service to you, our customer. This weekend challenged that and we’ve failed to meet the expectations you have of us. I was hoping that the first time you’d hear from me would be under better circumstances. Over the weekend, Postmark experienced a massive and sophisticated DDoS attack that resulted in a severe reduction of our sending capability and email delays for our customers. Despite the scale of the attack, we didn’t lose any email or data, and we continued to accept and queue messages while experiencing significant delays when sending email and updating activity pages. This incident represented a major disruption, and you deserve a complete explanation. We want to provide as much information as

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room: you were just looking for Twilio SendGrid alternatives, and now you’re here. On the Postmark blog. And Postmark, you guessed it, is a SendGrid alternative. Is this going to be the most objective list of alternative providers out there? As the author, I guarantee the answer is no: ours is the only email delivery service we know inside out, and therefore the only one we can recommend with absolute confidence. But we also know, from talking to thousands of existing and potential customers, that what YOU need may be different from what WE offer—and if that’s the case, you will probably find this in-depth list of 5 alternatives helpful. Simply the best (dun dun dunnn, better than all the rest): 5 SendGrid alternatives for 2023   Here is a handy spreadsheet that helps you compare SendGrid and its main alternatives and competitors on data points like