Also my Dada Mail Project is something I've been working on since <i>1999</i>. <a href="http://dadamailproject.com" rel="nofollow">http://dadamailproject.com</a><p>Self-hosted, works with Amazon SES. I have many clients that send many thousands of messages using the cheapest of Bluehost shared hosting accounts, when you also use Amazon SES as the mail service. (Things like Board of Realtors groups that post realty available to a discussion list)
Another alternative: SendGrid recently released a much less expensive product [1] which shares most features with MailChimp. Contact storage costs $20 per month for a typical list of 20,000 subscribers (for comparison, storing the same number of contacts at MailChimp would be $150/mo).<p>We handle deliverability issues ourselves, so you won't have to maintain the reputation of a self-hosted solution. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me - my email's in my profile.<p>[1] <a href="https://sendgrid.com/solutions/email-marketing" rel="nofollow">https://sendgrid.com/solutions/email-marketing</a><p>Disclosure: I'm a SendGrid engineer.
From Github (<a href="https://github.com/andris9/mailtrain" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/andris9/mailtrain</a>):<p>> Alpha-grade software. Might or might not work as expected. Awful code base, needs refactoring. No tests. No documentation.
HN, thanks for this thread. I was looking for a self-hosted email newsletter solution for ages, but couldn't really find good ones. The often claimed value proposition of <i>deliverabiliy</i> of all the big names is a myth IMHO, at least in Germany. All the big brand names ALWAYS get put into my spam folder (GMX). Deliverability is more than <i>Gmail lets it pass</i>.<p>I used a Wordpress Plugin called MyMail for a while, but updating Wordpress is annoying and I'm always afraid that the plugin changes in some way that it breaks.<p>I will check out the suggested solutions here, but if anyone knows from the top of his head which satisfies these requirements, I'd really appreciate it:<p><pre><code> - self-hosted (obviously)
- must be able to use any SMTP server
- preferrably bounce handling via IMAP
- double opt-in, which also can be disabled
- basic API support (subscribe, unsubscribe)
- one click unsubscribe
- Autoresponder capabilities (nice would be: lets me set the specific time of delivery. Say: +1 day after signup at 11am)
- reasonably fast UI
</code></pre>
Not required:<p><pre><code> - multi-tenant
- template builder
- fancy templates (I will use a very basic email layout)
- GeoIP
- CRM capabilities
</code></pre>
I tried Mautic (<a href="https://www.mautic.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mautic.org/</a>) which looked promising, but the UI is so horribly slow, it annoyed me. I don't want to wait 5 seconds for every HTTP request to complete. Especially if I need to set up my email campaigns
Does anyone know of an open source Mandrill clone, preferably self-hosted? Finding someone to do newsletters or simply doing via traditional mailing-list software is pretty easy, but finding an alternative for Mandrill is a bit harder.<p>We have maybe ten different email templates, in 7 different language. Mandrill makes that sort of easy, but their reason decision to require a Mailchimp account (which we don't need) has made us look for alternatives. We even considered building something in-house, but it seems like something someone else would already have done.
There's this really great (paid) software that is orders of magnitude better than Sendy. <a href="https://www.mailwizz.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mailwizz.com/</a><p>Main differences: built using a PHP framework, has extensions support, works on SES and competitors and is cheaper.
This is really cool! If anyone is interested in easily making a CRM tool to do similar things around list management and bulk mailing (and want control on your environment/stack), I wrote a blogpost on it: <a href="http://blog.varunarora.com/how-i-made-a-crm-in-3-hours/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.varunarora.com/how-i-made-a-crm-in-3-hours/</a>
Odoo also has an open source mailchimp clone: <a href="https://www.odoo.com/page/email-marketing" rel="nofollow">https://www.odoo.com/page/email-marketing</a><p>From the Call-to-actions on the website, to the mass mailing and statistics on emails. (with a good email template composer)
Throwing my side project into the ring, for anyone looking for a SaaS alternative: <a href="https://emailoctopus.com" rel="nofollow">https://emailoctopus.com</a>
I am the phpList community manager. Anyone used phpList before? We're Open Source (AGPL specifically).<p>We offer phpList as a hosted service on phpList.com. It's the same code (AGPL) but we deal with deliverability, updates etc. Our clients range from 300 mails a month (free) to high volume senders on VPS with millions of subscribers and mails :)
This is interesting and I might have to give it a try.<p>I am at a point now with Ghostnote alone that my mailing list on mailchimp is costing me $150 a month.<p>The project is healthy profitable but its still maybe a $1K a year when all comes to all. Money I would rather spend on other things.
templates?<p>I use sendy.co, but its WYSIWUG editor is not great compared to MailChimp -- that is the only real thing I think MailChimp has over sendy.co.