Is there a reliable solution we could use for our small startup? We want to shoot out daily emails to our users, like Bandcamp or Substack do.
We could ofc use Mailchimp but always happy to explore self hosting. Would this or another solution work?
We could ofc use Mailchimp but always happy to explore self hosting. Would this or another solution work?
Just make sure you set up everything (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) correctly, including the PTR reverse lookup of your server ( really important ).
Key tip: warm up your ip(s). I use mailreach.co ( it has a USD 25/m cost ), reached near 100% deliverability in a month.
I now have barely have any maintenance to do. It just works.
I don't know much about mail server and this must be how people feel when they watch Hollywood movie hacker moment
It seems Stalwart also makes it easy in their UI based on the gif in the post. You can see at some point a list of DNS entries to update.
The only missing thing in all these is the PTR record which needs to be set up at the hosting level.
A good tool to check if everything is OK is https://www.mail-tester.com/
Most of the movie hacker moment is often people who want to setup and configure and maintain each component of an email server manually, compared to a reasonably compiled package to allow more administration of it.
If this package isn't someone's cup of tea, products like MDaemon continue to exist and crush it for self-hosting email using a windows server just fine for the past 15-20y.
It's not perfect ( a bit slow ), but really easy to set up and configure. Which was the main draw.
It's a bit of a grey area thing in fairness.
Trying to game the system is frowned upon in all cases.
for recipient in "${recipients[@]}"; do
aws sesv2 send-email \
--from-email-address "$sender" \
--destination "ToAddresses=$recipient" \
--content "Simple={Subject={Data='$subject',Charset='UTF-8'},Body={Text={Data='$body',Charset='UTF-8'}}}" \
--region "$region"
done
If you want an actual product, check out Buttondown. Indie, great support, and amazing APIs.
Tbh I haven't used it in a few years but it was super useful. I see it's a one-time cost of $69 (used to be $29 but that was over a decade ago).
Disclaimer: I'm in contact with the founder after stumbling on HackerNews and I'm trying to help revive this awesome and economical tool. (I'm not paid.)
https://gist.github.com/johnnydecimal/e7b1a03e26b79239363b5d...
Though I've since updated that to include a .txt file as the body vs. typing it out in the email. But that's easy enough.
I might have added TXT records to satisfy DKIM etc., I don't remember. There are guides on the Amazon site; I'm a bit of a dummy when it comes to this so if I worked it out it must have been obvious enough.
For context, getting out of the sandbox at every org I worked at was essentially a single ticket with the word please and had almost immediate approval.
For my own account for a low volume form notification tool I wrote AWS’s response was ‘We will not approve your request and we will not revisit this decision’.
Stalwart might be a good use case for your business/employee mail account handling, however.