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Postmark (en-US)
Company blog · blog.postmarkapp.comwebbusiness
Postmark (en-US) is the company blog at blog.postmarkapp.com, writing about web and business. Since 2010, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “The false promises of dedicated IPs for email deliverability”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Postmark's company blog covers email delivery, spam filtering and dedicated IP addresses. HN readers link it as background on why mail ends up in spam folders.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Postmark is the most reliable way to get your transactional emails to the inbox. On our blog, we talk about new features and email delivery best practices.
Most-linked posts?
- The false promises of dedicated IPs for email deliverability4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-12-12
- Postmark: We’re Not Dead Yet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-26
What Hacker News says?
I'm surprised as well, since these services reinforce his point even more. In other words, good reputation = $$$. Also, I currently use mailgun (and dabbling with mandrill on some new projects) but I'm intrigued by postmarkapp.com take on dedicated IP addresses. Apparently they won't sell dedicated IP addresses because of the time needed to warm them up, so you get a shared IP and their TOS is stricter anti-spam tha…
Comment linking /post/14127210172/the-false-promises-of-dedicated-ips
on “The Hostile Email Landscape”Submitted Postmark introduces easy inbound email processing for all accounts as a story · 162 points
HN discussionSo glad you're happy with Postmark and thanks for the kudos - the entire team really appreciates it. 37S is doing a great job with all of their techniques. Of course, they also have an incredible sending volume on their side that helps improve the impact of any of these techniques. One of the biggest benefits of our approach at Postmark is that you get those same benefits regardless of your send volume: http://blog.…
Comment linking /post/14127210172/the-false-promises-of-dedicated-ips
on “Giving away the secrets of 99.3% email delivery”Submitted Bye, MongoDB. Hello, Cloudant as a story · 150 points
HN discussionI dropped the idea of using Postmark after I read this blog-post: http://blog.postmarkapp.com/post/1431120311/oddities-in-gmai... In there they admit that mails sent through Postmark still end up in Spam-folders or black holes. That was basically the only added value I'd get from using them.
Comment linking /post/1431120311/oddities-in-gmail-delivery-adaptive-filters
on “Web Services Our Startup Relies On Every Day”Submitted Designing a modern email as a story · 60 points
HN discussionSome argue that dedicated IPs aren't all that important: http://blog.postmarkapp.com/post/14127210172/the-false-promi...
Comment linking /post/14127210172/the-false-promises-of-dedicated-ips
on “Sendy - Send Newsletters via Amazon SES”Submitted Retrospective from Postmark on outages (MongoDB) as a story · 46 points
HN discussionPostmark added a pretty powerful editor http://blog.postmarkapp.com/post/125849089273/special-delive...
Comment linking /post/125849089273/special-delivery-postmark-templates
on “Ask HN: Is there any tool like MailChimp but for Geeks?”Submitted The false promises of dedicated IPs for email deliverability as a story · 16 points
HN discussionI'd also recommend subscribing to a dedicated mail service. There are dozens of variables that affect your mail delivery. You should read the postmark blog ( http://blog.postmarkapp.com/ ) for a peek into those.
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on “Help My newsletters are flagged as spam. ”Submitted How we keep Postmark fast through performance testing as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postmark Inbound with Node & CouchDB (screencast & code) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bounced Welcome Emails: Your customers are telling you “no thanks” as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best practices for sending personalized transactional email as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted We’re doubling down on Elasticsearch as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automated testing at Postmark as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Interview with Jesse Drukker of Inboxtrail as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A really rough Saturday as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The false promises of dedicated IPs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Fine Line Between Good Transactional Email and Spam as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postmark: We’re Not Dead Yet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Welcome Email Redesign @ Beanstalk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beware of Cloudfront urls in email as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open tracking for Postmark as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breaking through to Gmail's Primary inbox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Contest Bring Google Alerts into Campfire using Inbound Processing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Get free Postmark credits, write a wrapper for their Spam Score API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Preheader in Twitter's new follow notification as a story · 1 points
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