Does SendGrid successfully work for transactional emails?

[johan1]

Hello Bubbler’s!

Just wondering if anyone has more insights on Sendgrid and Bubble.

Does SendGrid deliver emails successfully to outlook & hotmail users once I input my own API key? I’ve heard multiple people say it does not deliver to hotmail/outlook users. Another thing I heard is that it can interrupt receiving & sending of emails if you are using outlook for business, but I don’t see how if the domain verification is done via cname and not MX records?

Would appreciate any feedback.

[johnny]

Hi @johan1,

From my previous experience with Sendgrid, there’s always been deliverability issues especially to those with a hotmail or outlook email. This is why most Bubblers switch to a third-party email API like Postmark.

Postmark is awesome

We have been struggling with Sendgrid the last couple of years with black listed ip-addresses, mails ending up in spam and mails blocked by mailservers. We only do transactional mails to our customers but still Sendgrid can not deliver good enough. We have been in contact with support, tweaking the settings but still the same problems. So we decided to try Postmark. After a couple of weeks testing it works like a a dream - all our mails are suddenly delivered. Everyday and all the time. The pl…

[alan.thomas111997]

SendGrid Warning for Newbies

SendGrid doesn’t directly tell you when your emails get blocked, and any emails to Yahoo, Hotmail, and Live accounts will get deferred/delayed/not sent/blocked. This has nothing to do with Bubble, it is a general SendGrid problem. This happens because SendGrid’s IP for whatever reason has been blocked by various email services. So be warned - if some users are not getting messages, it may be because you are using SendGrid and they have one of these emails. I found out the hard way (and also l…

[ramya.finance34]

Tried zeptomail bubble plugin and seem to work fine. If you are using send grid for transactional emails

[LA81638]

Sendgrid had terrible deliverability in my experience. Changed to postmark and have no issues at all