Evaluate and choose sendmail service

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We'll need to send transactional emails from the server. (New requests, request status changes, forgot password, etc.) Some candidates would include Mailgun, Amazon SES, etc.

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• Amazon SES: 10¢ per 1,000 emails for apps hosted outside of EC2, like us.
• Postmark: $10/mo for 10,000 emails, and highly-regarded. Has recently been acquired, though, with uncertain future.
• Mailgun: $35/mo for 50,000 emails after the one-month trial expires.
• Mandrill: An old favorite, now a Mailchimp add-on. I got to this pricing page before noping out.

My recommendation is SES until we discover a reason not to. I expect we won't even hit the 1,000 emails every month. This guide lays it out pretty clearly (though of course we'd use env vars).

You cool with SES, @cguess?

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Chatted w/@cguess and he notes that we already have a Mailgun account! Given its better deliverability stats and developer ergonomics — and that we have to justify that $35/mo somehow — let's just use that!