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MailPace
Company blog · mailpace.com/blogprogrammingsecurity
MailPace is the company blog at mailpace.com, writing about programming and security. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “MailPace – Fast and Reliable Transactional Email”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link MailPace, an independent, privacy-focused transactional email service, as a non-US alternative to larger providers. The praise in the comments is for the service, not for any writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Send password resets, OTP codes & notifications in seconds. Privacy-first transactional email API with 1.19s avg delivery to Gmail. Free tier available. Better than SendGrid, Postmark & Mailgun.
Most-linked posts?
- MailPace – Fast and Reliable Transactional Email4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-04-11
- /2 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2022-05-16
What Hacker News says?
Thank you for including the UK, we are still part of Europe! Added my company ( https://mailpace.com ) - I’m looking forward to a resurgence of innovation in European tech companies, the talent and education here is amazing, we just need to improve our investment and start treating tech with as much respect as we give to law, finance and other “prestigious” career paths here
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on “Go European: Discover European products and services”Submitted We were right (about passkeys) all along as a story · 7 points
HN discussionTry https://mailpace.com The lowest plan $40/year for 1k emails/month isn’t on the Pricing page, but you can select it when signing up.
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on “Cloudflare Email Service: private beta”Submitted MailPace now has a Domains API as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://mailpace.com is fully European based and independent
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on “Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector”Submitted Vibe Coding an SMTP Server, in Rust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI agree that this is a challenge! If you want to use the hosted version, it's impossible to avoid the need for that trust. I'm working on making self-hosting easier for this reason. Some other services (like Firefox Relay) will use AWS' Simple Email Service for everything. I opted to go for [MailPace]( https://mailpace.com/ ), an independent, privacy-focused provider instead, which is an improvement but still not id…
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on “An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email”Submitted MailPace – Fast and Reliable Transactional Email as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI own https://mailpace.com - if you sign up and set up your DKIM records you can send right away. Drop a note to support@mailpace.com once you're up and we'll remove your rate limits.
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on “Show HN: I built an indie, browser-based MMORPG”I run a small transactional email provider ( https://mailpace.com ), our IPs are very rarely added to blocklists- but we are very strict on what we allow through our service, and surprisingly we’ve had no long term delivery issues with any of the big providers. So thanks to the federated/decentralized design of email, is totally possible to be part of the network without any special privileges. We are sending millio…
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on “Outlook/Hotmail is no longer blocking my mail server”Give MailPace a try [0]. The creator seems like a great guy, and the service does what it says without any bs. I've been using it for a while now for side projects, and can only recommmend it. 0: https://mailpace.com/
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on “Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign”For anyone looking for non-US transactional email, I found https://mailpace.com via HN a while back and can recommend. Can't remember who the HN user behind it is, but they've done a great job.
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on “I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure”> Every single "email startup" is just building UI on top of existing infrastructure. They're not building actual email servers - they're building apps that connect to real email infrastructure. This is something that shocked me when I built https://mailpace.com I just assumed that everyone doing email ran their own smtp servers. Turns out YC and others are funding wrappers on aws ses left right and center!
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on “Why email startups fail”Currently at the millions stage with https://mailpace.com relying mostly on Postgres Tbh this terrifies me! We don’t just have to log the requests but also store the full emails for a few days, and they can be up to 50 mib in total size. But it will be exciting when we get there!
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on “Scaling request logging with ClickHouse, Kafka, and Vector”I’m dreaming of a set of individual providers, all building with similar dev experience, auth, billing functions, quality of service etc. I own https://mailpace.com and would love to expand from there- reach out if you want to help.
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on “But how to get to that European cloud?”I’m in a similar boat with https://mailpace.com No funding, just a simple business that I enjoy building. If you create great software that delights your users, what more do you need?
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on “In search of organic software”https://mailpace.com fits your needs (cheap, independent, 3rd party etc.)
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on “Ask HN: Replacement for Rackspace SMTP Hosting?”Idempotency is so under rated, all APIs should support it in my opinion. If you only need this for transactional email, you could use MailPace, we support idempotency out of the box: https://mailpace.com/features/idempotent-email-api
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on “Building an idempotent email API with River unique jobs”Same, can’t get https://mailpace.com listed, no idea why
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on “European Alternatives”I started self-hosting my email server earlier this year. I use maddy[0] as my email server and route outgoing mail through MailPace[1] to avoid being memory-holed (despite having SPF and DKIM set up correctly). My reason for self-hosting is control, not privacy: the fact that the cleartext of my outbound emails is visible in the MailPace UI is not a concern; the problem I'm solving is that email providers can delet…
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on “Self-host your mail server”We’re using Hotwire extensively at https://mailpace.com It’s a joy! But we’re not hiring…
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on “Ask HN: What companies are embracing “HTML over the wire”?”If you’re going to learn anything, email is a good bet. It’s barely changed in 30 years, and I suspect it will not change much for a long time. I built my own transactional email provider ( https://mailpace.com ), I wish I had found this link before I started. I would also recommend reading the email RFCs, they’re not that difficult to understand and the history explains a lot. Email aside we can learn a lot from th…
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on “Email: Explained from First Principles”