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I am at a point now with Ghostnote alone that my mailing list on mailchimp is costing me $150 a month.
The project is healthy profitable but its still maybe a $1K a year when all comes to all. Money I would rather spend on other things.
From Github ( https://github.com/andris9/mailtrain ): > Alpha-grade software. Might or might not work as expected. Awful code base, needs refactoring. No tests. No documentation.
It's the year 2016. It's ridiculous to not have tests. Why even run it? You can't change it and be sure you didn't break something/anything without testing in production.
> No documentation.
The 1990s called. They want their code back.
Can someone compare this to Sendy ?
I don't mean to slam the developers, but I use Sendy and have taken a peek under the hood. The code made me feel sick. Functionality wise, it seems the same. ninja edit: it made me sick because it was ugly, didn't feel secure, and it took me ages to make the changes I needed to make.
Can someone compare this to Sendy ?
I don't mean to slam the developers, but I use Sendy and have taken a peek under the hood. The code made me feel sick. Functionality wise, it seems the same. ninja edit: it made me sick because it was ugly, didn't feel secure, and it took me ages to make the changes I needed to make.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do get asked this question a lot, and I don't actually know what people are asking for. Perhaps a better question would be, "Does it have a wordpress plugin that allows me to do $some_intesting_thing" If you have a Wordpress site (or any site design), Dada Mail has a templating system to allow it to take on that design, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-EEvGVCJl4 and adding something like a subscription form is an…
i'd definitely love to talk to you. how can we get in touch?
templates? I use sendy.co, but its WYSIWUG editor is not great compared to MailChimp -- that is the only real thing I think MailChimp has over sendy.co.
Can someone compare this to Sendy ?
It has never sent to completion on its own, it always requires me to monitor the queue so I can hit the 'retry' button once it times out which usually happens after about 100-150 emails have been sent. I've actually scripted this action - so now when I send, I hit the send button as well as fire off a shell script that spoofs the 'refresh' request. It takes about 10 minutes to complete the campaign.
I'll echo the other complaints about the quality of the code - it seems to suffer from a copy / paste syndrome as the database connection logic is repeated in every file, but it could also be that the author has obfuscated it as well. It does do a phone home and some other stuff via some base 64 encoded code. I've unwound it in an attempt to fix another issue I thought it was causing (it wasn't). Here it is if you are curious:
https://gist.github.com/fowkswe/20a7c4c03835de183ff68fe5ab1a...
I'll give Sendy credit for getting me this far, though I would like to replace it someday with something I feel I have more control over. Not sure the OP or the other suggestions listed here offer exactly what I'm looking for.