# Using Activepieces open-source Zapier alternative to send an automated welcome email

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/using-activepieces-open-source-zapier-alternative-to-send-an-automated-welcome-email/47228>\
**Category:** Integrations & API\
**Created:** [May 10, 2024, 2:05am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/using-activepieces-open-source-zapier-alternative-to-send-an-automated-welcome-email/47228 "2024-05-10T02:05:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![curiositry](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/curiositry/32/1084_2.png) [@curiositry](https://forum.ghost.org/u/curiositry)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 2:05am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/using-activepieces-open-source-zapier-alternative-to-send-an-automated-welcome-email/47228/1 "2024-05-10T02:05:18Z")

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For anyone else who is wondering if it’s possible: I have successfully ported [the instructions for sending an automated, custom welcome email with Zapier](https://ghost.org/tutorials/welcome-email/) to use the open-source Zapier alternative Activepieces.

Activepieces doesn’t seem to have their own email sending the way Zapier does, so I used Postmark (which is what I’m using for transactional email). I’m sure mailgun would work too.

The only tricky part was realizing that I had to put the Postmark SMTP Access key (username, essentially) in the Activepieces SMTP connection “_email_” field, and the secret key as the password.

To ensure compliance, I also took the unsubscribe stuff from the footer of a test Ghost email, pasted it in at the bottom of the welcome email, using the UUID from the “member created” trigger in place of “example-uuid”.

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**Author:** ![ashrafsam](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/ashrafsam/32/30356_2.png) [@ashrafsam](https://forum.ghost.org/u/ashrafsam)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/using-activepieces-open-source-zapier-alternative-to-send-an-automated-welcome-email/47228/3 "2024-05-10T16:18:21Z")

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founder of Activepieces here, if you think the experience can get better, please let us know in the feature requests on [our community](https://community.activepieces.com/c/feature-requests/9), and thanks for writing this up!