I’ve been self-hosting Ghost since v3 and using Mailgun for bulk emails during that time as well. When Mailgun got rid of their free plan, I was disappointed but given that my utilization remained under 100 emails per month, relatively unaffected. However, it looks like you cannot sign up for their…

Why can’t bulks emails be a self-selected provider the same way that transactional emails are? You already posted the link the contains the overview of how the architecture works. So the broader answer is that you can’t send newsletters with SMTP, and while it is trivial to support multiple SMTP …

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mjw January 11, 2023, 9:43pm 6

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