8 ms·
Drop MailChimp and save the $50. Get a server running Linux. Use Mailman to manage your mailing list or do something custom. Write a custom maier program in
by drallison 16y ago
Drop MailChimp and save the $50. Get a server running Linux. Use Mailman to manage your mailing list or do something custom. Write a custom maier program in Python to distribute the emails. Write the list content in HTML If you don't have a spare server, you should be able to find one suitable for this task for $20 or less per month. Use other suggestions here to generate additional income.
- drallison 16y agoI am curious why this post was down-voted. It provides a simple engineering solution to the problem as stated.
- nolite 16y agoDidn't downvote, but hes not goign to get Mailchimp'ss deliverability doing it himself. And its going to cost him at least $30-$40 for an appropriate server.. so spending an extra few hundred hours to set all that up properly, in exchange for saving $10...blah.
- forcer 16y agowhy no one mentioned Sendgrid? For $10 a month he can send 10000 emails which is more than enough. Sendgrid has Newsletter App and also great deliverability.
- drallison 16y agoHe has a group of subscribers who have opted-into receiving his emails. He is not sending email to people who do not want to be quasi-spammed. He has only 3500 emails to send. Setting up such a simple system might take an hour or two, not a "few hundred hours".