I’d like to not use mailgun. I think it’s overpriced and absurd. People could just sign up thousands of times and I’d be down a thousand dollars. I want to do this on a separate server. I’m on DigitalOcean and I’m wondering what the options are for something that could be a set it and forget it opti…

Ghost has a key distinction between transactional emails and bulk emails. You need to understand that distinction before setting up email. Transactional emails are for things like people signing up, logging in, etc. Bulk emails occur when you send out an email blast to all of your members at once.…

Sending emails without using mailgun

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quac December 7, 2021, 4:01am 13

But that does not give access to the newsletter facility. Your have to build your own newsletter, when all of that capability is already present within Ghost.

See topic How do I send a single email through SMTP?

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Sending emails without using mailgun

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