Per "Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy" | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9151487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9151487 The

Per "Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy" | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9151487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9151487 The Sendy codebase is horrifying. [...]Just lots and lots of rough PHP _vs_ This isn't software to be used for analysis. Sendy is f-in awesome! Amazon SES rocks from a pricing standpoint but deliverability isn't its strong suit _vs_ I find no difference between SES and MailChimp regarding delivery I would stick with Sendy, but I could never get the unsubscribe links to work _vs_ there is a version 2 of Sendy, which appears to fix all these problems lighter version of Mailchimp and super cheap [...] Configuration is a bit painful I have been using it for almost 1.5 years and really like it. if you are taking all the trouble to install Sendy you should look at Mandrill (2 years go) _vs_ Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account (1 year ago) | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11170713 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11170713 Also self-hosted: https://github.com/bevacqua/campaign https://github.com/bevacqua/campaign | http://directmailmac.com http://directmailmac.com ($100) Hosted Sendy: https://www.sentopia.net/ https://www.sentopia.net/ Other/creative alternatives: http://tinyletter.com/ http://tinyletter.com/ (5000 free) | https://domain.yandex.com/domains_add/ https://domain.yandex.com/domains_add/ (500 outbound/day) | https://www.zoho.com/workplace/pricing.html https://www.zoho.com/workplace/pricing.html