What is the best email marketing service for a blog?

Question

Blogs

There is a regular blog with affiliate links (without selling any webinars, etc.). Initially, I only wanted to send out new articles and set up RSS + Feedburner . Then there was a need to do direct mailings without writing an article. To recruit subscribers, I use bonuses that must be automatically sent after subscribing
. Required:
- free (at least up to 1000 subscribers)
- the ability to link and automatically send previews of new blog articles to customers
- the ability to import a list of emails, since there is already a base, albeit a small
one - letter templates
- automatic distribution of bonus letters, after which it is necessary to send automatically after subscription
- statistics and graphs
- stable working (Smartresponder, for example, is buggy, as a user several times when subscribing and unsubscribing
- Russian signature about the ability to unsubscribe from the mailing list
Desirable:
- addressing in a letter by name, because such mailing lists work better
- technical support service, although it writes me a little and I have just a box on the domain, I'm generally satisfied
- Russian admin interface, although if the service is very good, then I generally know English
Not necessary:
​​- functionality for selling information products (if it is, then let it come in handy when it's needed, but now there is no need)
I got a little confused about email services, many of them are aimed specifically at selling webinars, as I understand it, and the rest is secondary and, accordingly, not very well implemented, and this is exactly what I don’t really need. I understand that you need to look not in the direction of JustClick and Smartresponder, but in the direction of mailchimp and madmimi.
Help with the choice, please, otherwise there are a lot of them, "reviews" are mostly promotional with a referral link, but I don't really want to try everything in a row.

Answer 1

www.mailgun.com 10k
emails per month for free

Answer 2

mandrill.com
12k per month free, but with upload limits per hour. the limit depends on the reputation of the account, the reputation grows over time in the absence of complaints. starting limit is 250 emails per hour.

Answer 3

For all the parameters that are indicated above, in principle, most email mailing services are suitable with slight differences, I am more impressed with the mailchamp service www.mailchamp.ru seemed simple and functional as a Kalashnikov assault rifle, the tariff for 99 rubles is suitable for blogs here , the only thing that is not I liked that you can’t send letters using your mailboxes to mail.ru or gmail.com, although it’s strange, before everything was ok. Accordingly, you need to attach your domain .