How to send Mobile Email Using ExactTarget SOAP API?

What is the best low-cost bulk email platform for our specific needs?

• There are numerous related threads to this, but those threads are too general to answer my question.  I need a new email system to replace what we are using now, either for ad-hoc email or for all of our email. Cost will be the deciding factor. Our present email system is on open source software PHPList. We host this on our own servers, in house because the volume of emails we send each month is cost prohibitive. PHPList has a lot of great functionality including: bounce, subscribe, unsubscribe, dedup management and automation our own templates upload our own mailing list API integration WYSIWYG editor Rudimentary analytics (open rate, click throughs, subscribe, unsubscribe on a per email basis) Image storage (we store our images on our own servers) Custom fields The following functionality it lacks which has become problematic for us: A/B testing Robust analytics that allow us to analyse more than just click rate, open rate etc on an email level, but by month, by template, by mailing list.  We want to track trends over time. Nice features to have but not required Litmus testing (or super easy templating that can handle responsive email with ease.  While we have HTML, CSS expertise in house, coding for email is a different animal.) What we are not looking for Segmenting. (We do that in our own database.)

• Answer:

  Since you have your own system, you should use either Mandrill (https://www.mandrill.com/pricing/) or Mailgun http://www.mailgun.com/pricing.