On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Thomas Rieff <trieff at greencaremankato.com>wrote: > What is available open source that would be comparable to Constant Contact > and Mail Chimp??? PHPList? Honestly, though, email delivery is a really difficult thing to do reliably. Unless you're operating at a huge scale, you can likely use Mailchimp, etc., for free or very cheap. Both you and your recipients will have a *much* better experience than trying to roll your own. IP reputation management is a thorn in the side of all email system administrators. In order to ensure reliable delivery, commercial mail shops like Mailchimp spent a *huge* amount of time and money protecting, managing, and repairing the reputation of their SMTP server IP addresses. When you're rolling your own, you have to deal with this on your own, which can be a major time sink. What I often hear of is people spinning up a new Linode or DigitalOcean VM for this sort of thing, trying to deliver emails from it, and discovering that their IP had previously been used by a spammer and as such, is listed in several RBLs. What do you do at that point? Go around and try to convince all of these RBLs that you're not a spammer? Deploy a new VM, hoping you'll get a new IP? So - that's probably more information than you were looking for, but hopefully it'll give you a bit of pause to consider if this is really something you want to homebrew. -Erik -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140303/308efc68/attachment.html>