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 …

Hello everyone, I am developing a new ghost site for a client and they do not want to use Mailgun. They are asking me to look into alternatives and I wanted to come here to respectfully request support of more than a single mail provider. I have read your responses as to why you are only going with…

I am trying to do this and it is not available to me. I have the Foundation Trial plan, and following the instructions for downgrading only leaves me with the option to unsubscribe. Downgrade is not shown.

That’s what you need to do to get Flex… [image] [solved] Mailgun has changed "pay as you go" offer - how to send cheap emails with Mailgun Memberships & subscriptions It’s still there, see images on how to find it : [Screen Shot 2022-09-23 at 16.04.45] [Screen Shot 202…

Thank you mjw! HOW TO SWITCH FROM DEMO PLAN TO FLEX Log into Mailgun and find app/account/billing/plans Click the gear icon and Unsubscribe from your plan Only after Unsubscribing will you be able to Downgrade

Why not move from Mailgun to Sendgrid or another lucrative alternative for self-hosters who still have a low subscriber base and can make use of another email provider’s free tier.

6000 emails is $6 on the PAYG plan with Mailgun. Sendgrid’s free tier is a little bigger, but that’s a pretty small cost for a pretty significant effort to get Ghost to talk to a different API. Still, Ghost is open source. You could certainly make Ghost talk to another API, and I’m sure some othe…

Ghost may accept a pull request to use the adapter pattern to support alternate sending services. But Ghost doesn’t just use Mailgun for sending, it also uses them tracking and analytics. So if you only implement sending, the tracking features in the Ghost dashboard won’t work.

Hello all I am happy to share an alternative to emails with Brevo. brevo.com “mail”: { “transport”: “SMTP”, “options”: { “service”: “SMTP”, “host”: “ smtp-relay.brevo.com ”, “port”: 587, “auth”: { “user”: “”, //Email “pass”: “” // key } } }, I dont have the work around for the “bulk” em…

What was the pass here? API key? I tried the same config on my website. Isn’t working :confused: Followed the steps mentioned here .

That Bravo can be used if a person wants an option

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