Ethical Newsletter Options

[Read on Ethical Revolution]

Earlier this year I managed to finally move my email subscribers away from Mailchimp to a self-hosted solution.

Having moved a lot of things away from big tech in recent years I’ve had moving the newsletters nagging on me for some while.

I have two email lists. One is my generic list (to which I very rarely send anything out) and the other is the 26 step challenge where subscribers can sign up to receive one of my steps to a better world every fortnight for a year.

With the way this is set up I knew I’d need to find the right solution. I couldn’t just try one thing and then switch to another one if it wasn’t satisfactory, so a fair bit of research was required.

I found a number of open source alternatives to Mailchimp which looked like they could do the job for me (plus another which was suggested by one of my subscribers – Thanks Carlos!) and in the end I opted for phplist. For anybody else looking to do similar here is the shortlist I worked from:

– phplist
Self Hosted (free) / Paid (free if you are an open source project yourself)
An open source, UK registered, self-funded and owner-managed company, with 20 years of history and a large community of contributors.

– Ecosend
Paid
They call themselves the planet’s favourite email marketing platform and offer migration from Mailchimp in seconds.

– Keila
Self Hosted (free) / Paid
Followable in The Fediverse: @keila offer easy, reliable email newsletters powered by open source, made in Germany and hosted in the EU.

– Listmonk
Self Hosted (free)
High performance one-way mailing list and newsletter manager.

– Mailtrain
Self Hosted (free)
Newsletter App Built on Top of Nodemailer.

– Mautic
Self Hosted (free) / Paid
Followable in The Fediverse: @mautic say they are the world’s largest open source marketing automation product.

– Paperboy
Self Hosted (free)
Fast, modern email campaign delivery via standard email protocol. Use any SMTP server or service.

– Sendportal
Self Hosted (free)
Open source email marketing.

[Via Ethical Revolution]

#Ecosend #EmailMarketing #Keila #Listmonk #Mailchimp #Mailtrain #Mautic #Newsletter #Paperboy #phplist #Sendportal

Mittwochs um 12 Uhr kommt der D3 Newsletter mit den #DnD-News der vergangenen Woche

Nachdem #Mailchimp seine ToS geändert hat und AI-Kram machen will, habe ich den Newsletter von dort weggezogen und versende jetzt mit einer #phplist Installation auf dem eigenen Server. Heute kam er zum ersten Mal von dort und soweit ich sehe, hat das gut funktioniert 😅

Solltest du die Mail allerdings heute nicht bekommen haben, dann gib mir bitte Bescheid!

Anmeldung zum Newsletter: https://www.dnddeutsch.de/lists/?p=subscribe&id=2

My #phpList install is now working. 20i support to the rescue - apparently I had a misconfigured DNS entry.

If you are feeling bold: https://hi.lordmatt.co.uk/

Ummh, thinking loud...

Bye,bye Mailchimps, Mailguns , Sendgrids et al. ...

After having tried #phplist and considering #ghost i've finally decided to deploy #listmonk for.

Under the hood i'll use either SMTP with Gandi DNS provider or a self-hosted #postfix #mail server, if needed.

Hello #listmonk ? https://listmonk.app

From your side... What do you devs use for this days for setting a Newsletter ?

#HappyHacking #smalltech !

A release candidate for the upcoming 3.6.8 version of #phpList is available for testing! 🚀

https://discuss.phplist.org/t/3-6-8-release-candidate-ready-for-testing/8210

🚀 A new version of #phpList is available for download! Check out the full list of changes and upgrade your phpList installation:

https://www.phplist.org/newslist/phplist-3-6-7-release-notes/