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Were you unable to achieve what you wanted by integrating MailChimp's API with a cron schedule or something more custom/sophisticated?
I've been thinking about automating some newsletter workflows in MailChimp and would be interested to know any dead ends you ran in to.
I just didn't want to pay Mailchimp just to schedule mails, so decided to go with Sendy right away.
Is it possible for free using their API?
This is entirely untested, but MailChimp have a send campaign endpoint. They actually have a schedule campaign endpoint too, but I wouldn't be surprised if that has the same account limitations as you've already run in to.
But a simple cron job that hits the send campaign endpoint would be a very simple way of achieving a scheduled mailer.
ah guess that could have worked on paper, actually haven't checked out the API for this purpose.
Mainly because at one point I would hit their limits anyhow, and they are just too expensive for me.
Can't we make our personal without using mailchimp or sendy?
Not sure if I understand the question?
You want to build your own mailing list service?
Yea type of.
Oh yeah of course we could build our own software using any mailing service like Amazon SES ourselves but it would be quite a complex system.
Last time I needed email functionality I used Nodemailer and hosted it on Heroku 📧
I will keep Sendy in the mind to try out when I come across something that needs an email 😉
Wouldn't recommend it for "casual" mailing, but if you're running a mailing list it's perfect
How about mailmunch. Check that out once
That just sounds like another Mailchimp but slightly cheaper?
In my case it would still be more then Sendy, but must say looks nice!