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Stalwart mail server (self-hosted all-in-one mail server) now as an admin webui

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Re: Stalwart mail server (self-hosted all-in-one mail server) now as an admin webui

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Post by codetrotter »

Looks nice! I could see myself reconfiguring my current OpenSMTPd based setup to have OpenSMTPd relay incoming mail to Stalwart and having Stalwart make the decision about which mails to keep or discard. Def gonna experiment with that this weekend :D

Re: Stalwart mail server (self-hosted all-in-one mail server) now as an admin webui

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Post by tetrisgm »

Is there a reliable solution we could use for our small startup? We want to shoot out daily emails to our users, like Bandcamp or Substack do.

We could ofc use Mailchimp but always happy to explore self hosting. Would this or another solution work?

Re: Stalwart mail server (self-hosted all-in-one mail server) now as an admin webui

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Post by 0x457 »

tetrisgm wrote: post #7

Is there a reliable solution we could use for our small startup? We want to shoot out daily emails to our users, like Bandcamp or Substack do. We could ofc use Mailchimp but always happy to explore self hosting. Would this or another solution work?

This is more of a GMail alternative. Sending personal emails and sending marketing emails are two very completely different beasts.

Re: Stalwart mail server (self-hosted all-in-one mail server) now as an admin webui

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Post by _eht »

tetrisgm wrote: post #7

Is there a reliable solution we could use for our small startup? We want to shoot out daily emails to our users, like Bandcamp or Substack do. We could ofc use Mailchimp but always happy to explore self hosting. Would this or another solution work?

The biggest issue you will likely encounter is having clean IP addresses to send from. If you have that problem solved, the next hurdle will be realizing that Stalwart is more than you would need to manage sending daily emails. If you have the IP addresses, you could just use a script that grabs email addresses to send to for the day, and ship them with a fairly straightforward SMTP daemon (sendmail) installation on a VPS.

Stalwart might be a good use case for your business/employee mail account handling, however.

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Post by jen729w »

tetrisgm wrote: post #7

Is there a reliable solution we could use for our small startup? We want to shoot out daily emails to our users, like Bandcamp or Substack do. We could ofc use Mailchimp but always happy to explore self hosting. Would this or another solution work?

Roll your own with Amazon SES. Bang up a little script and call the CLI.

    for recipient in "${recipients[@]}"; do
    aws sesv2 send-email \
      --from-email-address "$sender" \
      --destination "ToAddresses=$recipient" \
      --content "Simple={Subject={Data='$subject',Charset='UTF-8'},Body={Text={Data='$body',Charset='UTF-8'}}}" \
      --region "$region"
    done
I got that script from their website. Should be easy enough to knock something up in Deno or whatever. 50,000 emails/month free! Amazing.

If you want an actual product, check out Buttondown. Indie, great support, and amazing APIs.

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