Welcome Emails - post 6.0 release

[MattRutherford]

I was hoping that a basic welcome email process would be included in 6.0 - alas.

So - I’m going to try and go down a path to implement it myself. Possibly with Zapier or Make - or the like.

Has anyone done this? Could they point to any documentation or guidance? Am not a coder, but have some vibe-y type experience!

Thanks team…

[filipesm]

How to send a custom welcome email with Ghost this?

[curiositry]

I have done this, and it seems to be well worth it.

I used ActivePieces and Postmark, following the tutorial for Zapier (with a few tweaks):

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

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 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)…