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This looks more like a pitch for MailWizz, but I've found that sendy works well for me. http://sendy.co http://sendy.co If you are comfortable setting up your

This looks more like a pitch for MailWizz, but I've found that sendy works well for me. http://sendy.co http://sendy.co If you are comfortable setting up your own templates it does a great job sending and handling unsubscribes/statistics. It isn't simply hooked into the SES SMTP , it fully utilizes the AWS API. Sendy iteself has a simple api to add users to lists and do other common things. I've used it for years.

godzillabrennus 9y ago
I’ve used Sendy for years and love it.
slig 9y ago
I tried a year ago. Nice interface, worked fine, but the source code was a mess.
- j_s 9y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9154021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9154021 >jmhobbs: The Sendy codebase is horrifying. We use Sendy at work, 40k+ sends weekly. It saves us boat loads of money since moving from Mailchimp. We've forked it, patched it, and use it internally, but only because it's cheaper than writing our own, for now. I'm not telling you not to buy it, I'm telling you that the guts are shitty and you should know that before you fork over cash
mongodude 9y ago
Sendy's templating engine is a mess, best that worked for me is to design the template in Mail chimp, export it as HTML (Mail chimp provide this as free of cost) and then, use sendy for sending mails.
- chiefalchemist 9y ago
  Have you looked at ZURB Foundation for eMail?
hill_smith 9y ago
+0.5 for Sendy. I've been using it for http://www.tittietime.com http://www.tittietime.com quite successfully for 2+ years now. There have been a couple of bugs that caused me to have to dig into the source code - which as others have stated, is a mess. Though I suspect its been purposely obfuscated to prevent pirating. If you ever wonder what's going on in functions.php, I've unwound it a bit - you can see its making a phone home: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/cb21dfc35e1d4b74e136ebc694e42f10 https://gist.github.com/anonymous/cb21dfc35e1d4b74e136ebc694...
- nkozyra 9y ago
  Holy God in heaven that obfuscation filled me with dread.
  - hill_smith 9y ago
    I think he must have a deployment script that generates all the database connection calls at the top of every file when he releases a new version. No one in their right mind would write code like that.
- homero 9y ago
  They also leave a phpinfo() publicly available which I had to block
desheikh 9y ago
There are tons of hosted solutions for Amazon SES too, if your'e not interested in setting up your own solution. Shameless plug: I run https://mailblast.io https://mailblast.io, a hosted email marketing solution powered by Amazon SES.
bootcat 9y ago
godsend !!
pavlakoos 9y ago
+1 for Sendy. Send was lacking segmentation for many years, but they added this feature 2 months ago and now it is very good.
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godzillabrennus 9y ago

I’ve used Sendy for years and love it.

slig 9y ago

I tried a year ago. Nice interface, worked fine, but the source code was a mess.

j_s 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9154021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9154021 >jmhobbs: The Sendy codebase is horrifying. We use Sendy at work, 40k+ sends weekly. It saves us boat loads of money since moving from Mailchimp. We've forked it, patched it, and use it internally, but only because it's cheaper than writing our own, for now. I'm not telling you not to buy it, I'm telling you that the guts are shitty and you should know that before you fork over cash

mongodude 9y ago

Sendy's templating engine is a mess, best that worked for me is to design the template in Mail chimp, export it as HTML (Mail chimp provide this as free of cost) and then, use sendy for sending mails.

chiefalchemist 9y ago
Have you looked at ZURB Foundation for eMail?

hill_smith 9y ago

+0.5 for Sendy. I've been using it for http://www.tittietime.com http://www.tittietime.com quite successfully for 2+ years now. There have been a couple of bugs that caused me to have to dig into the source code - which as others have stated, is a mess. Though I suspect its been purposely obfuscated to prevent pirating. If you ever wonder what's going on in functions.php, I've unwound it a bit - you can see its making a phone home: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/cb21dfc35e1d4b74e136ebc694e42f10 https://gist.github.com/anonymous/cb21dfc35e1d4b74e136ebc694...

nkozyra 9y ago
Holy God in heaven that obfuscation filled me with dread.
- hill_smith 9y ago
  I think he must have a deployment script that generates all the database connection calls at the top of every file when he releases a new version. No one in their right mind would write code like that.
homero 9y ago
They also leave a phpinfo() publicly available which I had to block

desheikh 9y ago

There are tons of hosted solutions for Amazon SES too, if your'e not interested in setting up your own solution. Shameless plug: I run https://mailblast.io https://mailblast.io, a hosted email marketing solution powered by Amazon SES.

bootcat 9y ago

godsend !!

pavlakoos 9y ago

+1 for Sendy. Send was lacking segmentation for many years, but they added this feature 2 months ago and now it is very good.

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