Is there a free mail host for self hosting?

Developer help Self-hosting
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The new commenting system requires memberships which in turn require a configured mail host.

I believe mailgun now charges everyone.

Which free service do you recommend?

2

Mailgun does offer a Flex/Pay-as-you-go plan that includes 1k emails a month.

If you’re not seeing that option, please contact their support.

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You can use AWS SES for transactional emails. It’s way too cheaper than mailgun and easy to setup. SES is absolutely capable of sending bulk email, but its not supported by Ghost natively.

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I ended up using sendinblue - totally free. Works just fine.

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Hi,

I came across your post as I was trying to setup sendInblue to use ghost. How were you able to do it? I tried the following below without success.

Do you have a sample you could share please?

“mail”: {
“transport”: “SMTP”,
“options”: {
    “service”: “SendInBlue”,
    “host”: “smtp-relay.sendinblue.com”,
    “port”: 587,
“auth”: {
    “user”: “username”,
    “pass”: “SMTP key value”
    }
  }
},

Thanks in advance!

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