What service are you using to send marketing emails?

I’ve actually had good experience using AWS SES for marketing emails. I’ve worked with clients who use it to send hundreds of thousands of emails, and SES is probably by far the best deal you can get price-wise. You just have to make sure that your email list is legit and you don’t get too many bounces or complaints.

By the way: Sending marketing emails is one of the official use-cases for SES: > You can configure Amazon SES quickly to support > several email use cases, including transactional, > marketing, or mass email communications. > -(https://aws.amazon.com/ses/)

Shameless plug: I’m building an Open Source email marketing tool that allows you to use SES (or plain SMTP, Sendgrid, Mailgun, …) to send mass emails. You can find the repo on GitHub: https://github.com/pentacent/keila There’s also a hosted version available … and if you’re interested, feel free to drop me a line :-)

When I looked into low-budget mailing list management, I ended up spinning up a ListMonk instance. (It's free/open source.) But you still end up needing to connect it to a mailing backend like AWS SES or similar. If you want to avoid SES, I'm not sure what better alternatives there are, but I'd like to know too! (I have extremely low mailing volume and would like to prioritize deliverability)

https://listmonk.app/

http://sendy.co

Yours is the exact use case that it covers super well.

Pay a one-time ~$60 fee and runs on top of SES.

https://www.sendinblue.com/

* European service

* Cheaper than MailChimp (https://www.sendinblue.com/mailchimp/)

We recently switched to Klaviyo https://www.klaviyo.com

The UX is simple and integrations seem much easier to use than MailChimp, it's also a bit cheaper.

Surprised to see no one has mentioned https://sendfox.com/. They mention having 100,000+ users, and requires a one-time fee for sending.

Misses some of the bells-and-whistles, but good enough for me and a few friends I know.

I used Mailgun before and at work we have Postmark. Both good.

I also made the following table for myself some time ago: https://nts.strzibny.name/transactional-email-providers/

I’ve had a good experience with email octopus. Converted a client from spreadsheets and big Bcc lists with little problem. I’m not sure how big or how many lists you have.

Https://emailoctopus.com

You can a marketing email plugin for Wordpress called FluentCRM and still send with Amazon SES with FluentSMTP https://fluentsmtp.com/. Annual subscription, but not as expensive as MailChimp.

https://fluentcrm.com/

Also check out MailGun: https://www.mailgun.com/ . It might be more in line with what you were looking for.

How to send spam on HN. /s In the end the thread is useful to build a list of domains to filter.

ActiveCampaign, which we also use as a sales crm. So conversions automatically go into the sales funnel.

Mailcoach, https://mailcoach.app

Is there any reason you cant use SES for marketing emails? Or comparable services like Postmark?

One unique approach for lower volume is Gmass. It’s really good at what it does.

I use loops.so a YC funded startup. It is a monthly charge though. But super simple to use for product updates. The "loops" part I have not used yet which is emails triggered by actions.

Kind of strange that you only send a couple of marketing emails a year. What's up with that?

Omnisend, the best support there is.

great post , can someone tell me what for example mailchimp or any other big players in the market are using for there SMTP ?

also is there any good internet group that talking about this staff ?

SMTP , emails teach and such ? Thanks

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