Hello everyone ,
I recently setup a private blog via Ghost & its pretty amazing to work with. The editor, the themes and obviously the community!
However I stumbled upon the issue which quite many have had about Mailgun x Newsletter. Mailgun is fine when you have a good userbase, however it doesn’t fit well when you are just starting up or have a small & selective user-base (private access sites with limited, selected users).
I checked quite many posts on this same forum & none had solutions (afaik). So I built one, thanks to Ghost supporting custom integrations!
Introducing Ghosler - Ghost Newsletters, an open sourced project that does some of the work to solve this issue. Send emails when you publish a post!
Note: I wasn’t sure whether to add this post in Off-Topic or somewhere else but since this was baked with Ghost Integration support, I have posted here. Let me know if this isn’t supposed to be here.
Support for Multiple Email Accounts: Distribute newsletters through various email accounts, dividing member counts accordingly.
Tracking Email Performance: Monitor email deliverability and open rates.
Customize Newsletter: You can customize the newsletter via Settings, or go full on by providing a custom template.
Paid & Free Members Management: Ghosler shows a Subscribe button to members who do not have access to paid content.
URL Click Tracking in Emails: Ghosler supports tracking URL clicks in the email, providing more insights on how your members are interacting with added links.
Newsletter Post Feedback: Gain insights into reader preferences with detailed feedback on each post, including likes, dislikes, and overall sentiment.
Hey @barnabynagy,
Thanks for checking out the project.
Ghosler allows using multiple email accounts (via SMTP) with a lot of customisation over the default newsletter template.
Ghost’s recommendation for not using SMTP is for transactional emails which are good if you have a moderate to high user base.
Hence if you have a smaller or even private user-base, Ghosler suffices the requirement.
Even with Email / SMTP providers, like SES with higher limits in your plan, Ghosler works just fine :)
It’s actually the opposite, for 1:1 emails, Ghost doesn’t suggest a specific provider. For newsletters, Ghost suggests not using SMTP, preferring a bulk provider. Mailgun is the only fully integrated bulk provider at this time.
Haven’t checked it out yet just yet, I am in the next day or two though. Got it marked in my work stack. But I wanted to say regardless, thank you for stepping up and being a part of the Open Source community.
So we know Mailgun is officially integrated, but what about other newsletter providers? I am really unable to use other bulk providers such as SendInBlue (now Brevo), MailChimp, Sender.net ? I mean without Zapier. I remember these providers also have SMTP credentials so those might be ok for bulk sending?
The plugin/integration in this thread aims at letting you use other bulk mail senders/SMTP though. Using that is not related to the Ghost software though, and basically a standalone tool.
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the project if you like it!