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Postal - mail delivery platform
https://github.com/atech/postal
Postal is a complete and fully featured mail server for use by websites & web servers. Think _Sendgrid, Mailgun or Postmark _but open source and ready for you to run on your own servers. Postal was developed by aTech Media to serve its own mail processing requirements and we have since decided that it should be released as an open source project for the community. It was originally launched by us as AppMail but renamed to Postal as part of making it open source as we felt the name was more suitable.
Getting 3000 stars just today, this is going to be interesting to keep track of. Screenshots look nice too.
I hope and fully expect Postal + Mautic will disrupt this mail racket industry beyond all their fears of commoditization. Oh, boy. Brace for more FUD from aforementioned companies about how really inconceivable black magic email delivery and tracking is.
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I thought the whole point of Mailgun et al was to benefit from their reputation to increase deliverability. How is Postal going to ensure deliverability of the
spamlegit marketing emails?So it does incoming and outgoing?
Does it do SPAM filtering?
"Postal" - it's a nice PC game actually
That game is called Portal and not Postal :P
From what I gather, this is not a replacement for Gmail/MailCow/MXroute, neither it's purpose is to filter outbound Spam on hosting servers. Postal is an alternative for Sendgrid, Mailgun type of services to deliver email.
Both games exist and are fun in their own peculiar ways.
Check it out: http://store.steampowered.com/app/401680/POSTAL_Redux/?snr=1_5_9__300 ;P
I see, I did not know that.
I don't think we'll see this much in the SP space, besides maybe as a deployable application. It's really meant to provide a self-hosted bulk-mailer. Even then, if I'm an ESP I'm marketing my value as clean IP addresses, honey pot detection, and abuse report management.
Agreed. Maybe github community will take this and turn it into a SAAS but this meant to be not an ESP app, this is the end-user (read: enterprise/SOHO) application to send transactional and/or marketing emails from their servers. No multi tenancies, no outbound a la MailChannels filtering. Just send emails without paying for each one like it is 90s all over again.
If analogy is correct this is like Proxmox for people who don't need your venerable SolusVM, Fraudrecord, WHMC and the whole shebang. Different needs, different tools.
Any installation instructions?
https://github.com/atech/postal/wiki/Installation
This is cool. Not so enthusiastic about the Ruby and Node dependencies....
The particular appeal of Sendgrid and Mailgun is to be able to send JSON to an endpoint, and it turns that into an email. People don't need a box with a working MTA, and they don't have to deal with the oddities of each mail system or network. There is one system that deals with those details, and it consumes HTTP requests.
This also has the possibility of routing the message wherever. XMPP, Slack, IRC whatever else people can write a bot for.
Added to "Never fucking ever" list. Thanks for saving me a few minutes.
Postal is actually the open source code of the live service https://appmail.io/
Container: https://github.com/ALinuxNinja/docker-postal
Give it a try, no guarantees on whether it fully works yet.
Edit:
Fixed a couple of things just now that were causing SQL migrations to not work properly.
Logins should be working now.
Thanks @ALinuxNinja, was planning to create one but now can just use yours!