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Lyn Headley14:11:23

Am I allowed to set :postmark/from to my gmail?

Jacob O'Bryant16:11:01

I think it has to be whatever address you've configured in Postmark as your sending identity--and I think for non-test sending identities they want you to use a custom domain

Lyn Headley16:11:14

Dang. Ok, Thanks.

Jacob O'Bryant17:11:36

I actually wasn't aware of that requirement until someone mentioned they ran into issues when trying to use a gmail address as their sending identity--maybe it would've been better to stick with mailgun as the default :thinking_face: would it be helpful to have a step-by-step thing for setting up a custom receiving address for postmark, just to make the process quick? maybe it wouldn't hurt to do a step-by-step guide for the whole postmark setup

Lyn Headley17:11:56

yes, extremely helpful!

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Jacob O'Bryant17:11:45

looking at pricing, I wonder if I should go back to having https://www.mailersend.com/ be the default/recommended email provider :thinking_face: I see mailgun's cheapest plan is now $35/month, and Postmark's pricing has also been jacked up since they got acquired (starts at $10/month for 10,000 emails which is fine, but additional emails are $1.80 / 1,000 emails which is super expensive... glad I've been grandfathered in on one of their old plans 😬 ). mailersend on the other hand actually has a free tier with 3k emails/month, so most Biff users wouldn't even be paying anything; and even if/when you exceed that, their paid plan is surprisingly cheap

Lyn Headley19:11:51

jumping on mailersend, thank you.

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Richard Bowen04:01:33

Sendgrid has simple configuration as well.

Lyn Headley16:11:14

What are folks doing with exceptions in production? Storing them in the db? Just logging them? Sending a page in the middle of the night?

Lyn Headley17:11:08

I might store them in the db, and email them to myself.

Jacob O'Bryant17:11:04

I have a search/alert set up in paper trail so it'll email me whenever the logs say "exception", then in my email app I route those to a specific folder and make them trigger a notification (most of my emails don't trigger notifications)

Lyn Headley17:11:43

papertrail looks great!

Jacob O'Bryant17:11:07

yeah, very handy 🙂 pretty straightforward to set up as well