My newsletter Le Courrier du hacker (3,800 subscribers, 176 issues) is 3 years old and Mailchimp costs were becoming unbearable for a small project ($50 a month, $600 a year), with still limited revenues nowadays. Switching to the Open Source Mailtrain plugged to the AWS Simple Email Service (SES) will dramatically reduce the associated costs. …
  • @X51@lemmy.ml
    1•3 years ago

    Email services of all types are obnoxious. Any message deemed worthy of an email can be dispensed with an RSS feed. This allows a user to sign up for updates rather than having info pushed onto them.

    • @Anachron@lemmy.ml
      1•3 years ago

      Yes, and no.

      Imagine subscribing to an RSS feed for something like password reset, order confirmation etc.

      But for marketing stuff: Totally.

      • @X51@lemmy.ml
        1•3 years ago

        I don’t know anyone using email services for password resets. Emails for communication of one transaction is fine. The repetitive dispensing of random information by email is not.