Bulk mailer options?

[M@tree2]

Hi, hope everyone is doing well!

Forgive the lack of technical knowledge here,
Looking for options on a bulk mailer for a project I am busy with, roughly 10-20k emails a month, with the ability to scale to more in the future.

Is it possible to send bulk email from a business email hosting package, from a custom email domain?
How would the features such as unsubscribe etc integrate into this? I am looking at using something like Listmonk to manage the subsciber base, analytics etc.

Any advice would be much appreciated!

 

[Timmeh]

Perhaps take a look at sendgrid. They're pretty well known. Amazon AWS / SES also has a service.

You should be able to send from a custom domain with any of those. Mailchimp is another well known one

 

[M@tree2]

Perhaps take a look at sendgrid. They're pretty well known. Amazon AWS / SES also has a service.

You should be able to send from a custom domain with any of those. Mailchimp is another well known one

Wasn't aware of Amazon SES, definitely looks to be the most cost effective, thanks!

Had a look at Mailchimp, something just didn't click with their offering, not sure what it is.
Also looked at Postmarkapp.

 

[CarboVan]

Mailchimp works well, but be careful of pricing. They charge per contact volume iirc, even if you don't send them anything. So runs the risk of getting pricey if you do expand in future.
Also check out Brevo | CRM Suite

 

[Reegz]

In a build vs buy situation it would come down to the following:-

• how much time do you have
• how much money do you have

If you have all the time, build it. If you're in a rush and have money, buy it!

Mailerlite, MailChimp etc will all do the job pretty well and abstract away the issues of list management etc.

AWS SES is the raw email sending capability within AWS. Works very well, quick and easy to get up and running, scales more than you and you can configure it to use a custom email address on your domain (even if your domain is not on Route53).
However, you're going to have to worry about list management etc yourself.

AWS Pinpoint will help you with campaigns, segmentation, template and the like so that's probably where I'd start looking if I were going to build it myself.

 

[mikewazar]

- Brevo
- Sendgrid
- Mailjet

they all also let you spoof domains of customers sharing their infrastructure if you ask nicely

 

[M@tree2]

In a build vs buy situation it would come down to the following:-

• how much time do you have
• how much money do you have

If you have all the time, build it. If you're in a rush and have money, buy it!

Mailerlite, MailChimp etc will all do the job pretty well and abstract away the issues of list management etc.

AWS SES is the raw email sending capability within AWS. Works very well, quick and easy to get up and running, scales more than you and you can configure it to use a custom email address on your domain (even if your domain is not on Route53).
However, you're going to have to worry about list management etc yourself.

AWS Pinpoint will help you with campaigns, segmentation, template and the like so that's probably where I'd start looking if I were going to build it myself.

Thanks for the insight, I have a lot of time on my hands, so am going to build a solution, which is going to be built into the other stuff I am busy with already.

Will have a look at AWS pinpoint as well