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Setting up/running an email service If you're setting up an email service from scratch, or running one, exchange ideas and tips with other Webmasters here... |
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14 Oct 2024, 11:00 AM | #1 |
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How to send bulk/mass email with Amazon SES. Mailchimp newsletter alternative
Full guide: https://gist.github.com/MaximilianKo...c1c2ebf99b91d4
The short answer is that you need to set up your own web server (Hetzner, AWS, DigitalOcean, etc.), install email software on it (Listmonk, Mailwizz, Mautic, Sendy), and use an SMTP like Amazon SES. It's not that hard. If you're on Windows, Putty and FileZilla will be your main programs to access your server. When using CSV files for your contacts, you want to use UTF-8 format. When I originally searched for this a few years ago I had a very hard time finding a right answer because all the results were SEO blogs advertising their newsletter services (Mailchimp, MailerLite, Brevo, Convertkit, etc.), which is not the same thing. Now that Google has added a "forums" tab at the top of their search results it should help get better info from forums like this one. My use case is that I have a Google form collecting hundreds of thousands of applications. And I need to reply to those people en masse (a few thousand per day). None of the newsletter services are designed for this, and they're all very expensive. Even if your use case is a regular newsletter, setting up your own server is way cheaper. My goal was to find the most cost-effective, user-friendly, bulk/mass email sender with good deliverability and open rates. One-time, 100,000+ emails per month, 3-4k/day. Amazon SES is by far the cheapest SMTP option (short of hosting your own). You have to pair it with a user interface, and listmonk seems to be the best choice, and is also free and open-source. If you know of other guides or helpful info, feel free to share them in this thread. |
15 Oct 2024, 12:51 AM | #2 |
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Have a look at Dada Mail - Self Hosted, Easy to Use Email Marketing Mailing List Manager - https://dadamailproject.com/, it may suit you.
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