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   Stephen Foskett (sfoskett@techfieldday.net)'s status on Monday, 27-Mar-2023 05:59:15 JST Stephen Foskett

   So #Mailchimp has drastically raised prices on anyone with more than 500 subscribers, regardless of how few emails you send. This is challenging for light mailers like me with more than that many subscribers...

   What's a good alternative to Mailchimp for #newsletters? I'm not opposed to paying, but Mailchimp's cheapest plan is $26.50 per month, and that's quite a lot for a hobby site!

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Monday, 27-Mar-2023 05:59:15 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     @sfoskett If you have a cloud server, hands down option is Sendy.co .... uses Amazon SES. Will cost you pennies per thousands of emails. Drop dead effective. Been a big fan for three years.

     https://sendy.co

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 04:15:55 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     @sfoskett why would they not? I’ve never had issues. It does DKIM domain verification so all recipient systems trust it.

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     Stephen Foskett (sfoskett@techfieldday.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 04:15:56 JST Stephen Foskett

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     • Futurist Jim Carroll

     @jimcarroll thanks for the tip! Since it uses SES the messages will get through, right?

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 06:02:09 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     @sfoskett https://aws.amazon.com/ses/customers/

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     Stephen Foskett (sfoskett@techfieldday.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 06:02:10 JST Stephen Foskett

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     • Futurist Jim Carroll

     @jimcarroll yeah that was my worry. Anti spam has made it difficult to self host email

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     Stephen Foskett (sfoskett@techfieldday.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 21:49:52 JST Stephen Foskett

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     • Futurist Jim Carroll

     @jimcarroll I installed Sendy and am migrating over from Mailchimp. Thanks for the suggestion!

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 21:49:52 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     @sfoskett Fantastic. If you need any help or guidance, let me know. My only weak point is that other than a server level backup (which occurs daily), I haven't put in place a good database backup process.

     I also have a Wordpress-to-Sendy plugin that was $13 somewhere; it automates the process of grabbing form data (another plugin) and sending it direct to the database.

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 22:45:54 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     @sfoskett The forms on my site are based on Gravity Forms, and integrate into Sendy via that 3rd party add on. Works pretty seamlessly.

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     Stephen Foskett (sfoskett@techfieldday.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 22:45:55 JST Stephen Foskett

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     • Futurist Jim Carroll

     @jimcarroll This is my next challenge (after getting out of the SES sandbox): Integrating the signup process and getting off the (actually quite good) Mailchimp Wordpress plugins