Low price / free service for sending newsletters (non spammy) via email

nepkkk

Hello everyone,

If I want to have a newsletter signup for my website (or multiple websites), is there a good low-cost email service that I can use that won't end up in Spam?

Can we use MXRoute or CraneMail or OnePoundEmail for this?
@jar @Francisco @NameCrane @MichaelCee

Is it possible to do with shared hosting? Setting up SMPTP or something? Or with a VPS?
@NameCrane @HostSlick @dustinc @labze @MikeA @NDTN @VPSSLIM

I would want to send email only to those subscribed to the newsletters, and not send email to those who did not ask for it. So how can I configure to send an email verification first, and only subscribe to those who verify, and also there should be way to unsubscribe.

Also for contact form submission: user submits form on website, that gets emailed to me, and a copy gets emailed to the user too, how can we do this? (this is more a secondary concern for me, main concern is with newsletter)

I would also like to keep the newsletter of high quality (to the best I can), and also not violate any terms of service of the email provider.

I am currently not running any newsletters at the moment, so will be starting from zero. I see many offer free services (services like MailChimp) upto certain number of subscribers - however the problem is that even the cheapest paid plan is very expensive, and I was wondering if I can do it with providers from LES.

What would you recommend are good options? What do you use yourself?

Francisco

So long as the emails are clean it should be fine for anyone that offers email services and even shared hosting.

You can help by having strong captchas on registration/enlisting pages.

Francisco

Verasel

I think you should use Amazon SES... I think I pay like a few USD a month? It's really, really cheap... Best delivery, best everything.

dedipromo

@nepkkk said: I would want to send email only to those subscribed to the newsletters, and not send email to those who did not ask for it. So how can I configure to send an email verification first, and only subscribe to those who verify, and also there should be way to unsubscribe.

Also for contact form submission: user submits form on website, that gets emailed to me, and a copy gets emailed to the user too, how can we do this? (this is more a secondary concern for me, main concern is with newsletter)

If you use Wordpress, there are tons of available plugins that can handle this type of functions so you don't need to code.

nepkkk

@Verasel said:
I think you should use Amazon SES... I think I pay like a few USD a month? It's really, really cheap... Best delivery, best everything.

How do you have it setup?

@dedipromo said:

@nepkkk said: I would want to send email only to those subscribed to the newsletters, and not send email to those who did not ask for it. So how can I configure to send an email verification first, and only subscribe to those who verify, and also there should be way to unsubscribe.

Also for contact form submission: user submits form on website, that gets emailed to me, and a copy gets emailed to the user too, how can we do this? (this is more a secondary concern for me, main concern is with newsletter)

If you use Wordpress, there are tons of available plugins that can handle this type of functions so you don't need to code.

Any plugin recommendations? Any good free ones?

Verasel

@nepkkk said: How do you have it setup?

Just SMTP details, bro. You can enter any SMTP details in WordPress... make sure you have the right SPF/DKIM stuff set up, that the domain is aged enough, and don't send too many emails all at once, and BE SURE that every email is valid, and you won't have issues even with Hotmail.

nepkkk

@Verasel said:

@nepkkk said: How do you have it setup?

Just SMTP details, bro. You can enter any SMTP details in WordPress... make sure you have the right SPF/DKIM stuff set up, that the domain is aged enough, and don't send too many emails all at once, and BE SURE that every email is valid, and you won't have issues even with Hotmail.

Which WordPress plugin do you use for this?

Verasel

@nepkkk said:

@Verasel said:

@nepkkk said: How do you have it setup?

Just SMTP details, bro. You can enter any SMTP details in WordPress... make sure you have the right SPF/DKIM stuff set up, that the domain is aged enough, and don't send too many emails all at once, and BE SURE that every email is valid, and you won't have issues even with Hotmail.

Which WordPress plugin do you use for this?

https://wordpress.com/go/website-building/wordpress-smtp-settings-a-how-to-guide-for-email/

suut

@NameCrane CraneMail LIFETIME is a good deal.

dedipromo

@nepkkk said:

@Verasel said:
I think you should use Amazon SES... I think I pay like a few USD a month? It's really, really cheap... Best delivery, best everything.

How do you have it setup?

@dedipromo said:

@nepkkk said: I would want to send email only to those subscribed to the newsletters, and not send email to those who did not ask for it. So how can I configure to send an email verification first, and only subscribe to those who verify, and also there should be way to unsubscribe.

Also for contact form submission: user submits form on website, that gets emailed to me, and a copy gets emailed to the user too, how can we do this? (this is more a secondary concern for me, main concern is with newsletter)

If you use Wordpress, there are tons of available plugins that can handle this type of functions so you don't need to code.

Any plugin recommendations? Any good free ones?

I've used this one before; they have free version and a paid one with more features. But for your requirements (manage user subscription and send newsletters), the free version should be good enough.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/newsletter/

MichaelCee

I think an important question is, is anything for sale in these newsletters?

nepkkk

@MichaelCee said:
I think an important question is, is anything for sale in these newsletters?

No.

So I can use OnePoundEmail as long as the emails are not for sales?

MichaelCee

@nepkkk said:

@MichaelCee said:
I think an important question is, is anything for sale in these newsletters?

No.

So I can use OnePoundEmail as long as the emails are not for sales?

The MXroute TOS at the time of writing indicate that it can be used for a newsletter that isn't selling anything, provided the newsletter complies with legitimate usage, spam, and content restrictions.

Jatin6

@MichaelCee said:

@nepkkk said:

@MichaelCee said:
I think an important question is, is anything for sale in these newsletters?

No.

So I can use OnePoundEmail as long as the emails are not for sales?

The MXroute TOS at the time of writing indicate that it can be used for a newsletter that isn't selling anything, provided the newsletter complies with legitimate usage, spam, and content restrictions.

It still has a 400/hour email restriction, though I guess you can just figure out a way to not send mails at once (like one every 9-10 seconds) and that'd come out to about ~5000/day which should be enough for a small newsletter. But gonna need @jar to confirm whether that's fine.

jar

@Jatin6 said:

@MichaelCee said:

@nepkkk said:

@MichaelCee said:
I think an important question is, is anything for sale in these newsletters?

No.

So I can use OnePoundEmail as long as the emails are not for sales?

The MXroute TOS at the time of writing indicate that it can be used for a newsletter that isn't selling anything, provided the newsletter complies with legitimate usage, spam, and content restrictions.

It still has a 400/hour email restriction, though I guess you can just figure out a way to not send mails at once (like one every 9-10 seconds) and that'd come out to about ~5000/day which should be enough for a small newsletter. But gonna need @jar to confirm whether that's fine.

All good!

Dazzle

@nepkkk said:

So I can use OnePoundEmail as long as the emails are not for sales?

Yes. I can confirm this. Currently using OnePoundEmail to broadcast internal communication, greetings, and other stuff, works great.

nepkkk

@Dazzle said:

@nepkkk said:

So I can use OnePoundEmail as long as the emails are not for sales?

Yes. I can confirm this. Currently using OnePoundEmail to broadcast internal communication, greetings, and other stuff, works great.

How do you have it setup?

nohavps

Hello,

Nohamail is coming private suite all features

Dazzle

@nepkkk said:

@Dazzle said:

@nepkkk said:

So I can use OnePoundEmail as long as the emails are not for sales?

Yes. I can confirm this. Currently using OnePoundEmail to broadcast internal communication, greetings, and other stuff, works great.

How do you have it setup?

The panel itself using Directadmin, the steps:
1. Create email account on their panel
2. Adding necessary DNS record; SPF, DKIM, A record. You can see the details from their documentation.
3. Install mail marketing suite, I'm using listmonk.
4. Setting up SMTP details on listmonk.
5. Blast.

nepkkk

@nohavps said:
Hello,

Nohamail is coming private suite all features

Can you tell more?

@Dazzle said:

@nepkkk said:

@Dazzle said:

@nepkkk said:

So I can use OnePoundEmail as long as the emails are not for sales?

Yes. I can confirm this. Currently using OnePoundEmail to broadcast internal communication, greetings, and other stuff, works great.

How do you have it setup?

The panel itself using Directadmin, the steps:
1. Create email account on their panel
2. Adding necessary DNS record; SPF, DKIM, A record. You can see the details from their documentation.
3. Install mail marketing suite, I'm using listmonk.
4. Setting up SMTP details on listmonk.
5. Blast.

Wow thanks, this is really helpful. Which host do you use for this?

webpro85

I find SES, Mailjet, Brevo all working well to send newsletters to subscribers.

LymbicSistem

There's also free tier of services like mail chimp, constant contact sendinblue.

dnuorg

Brevo, they are optimized for sending marketing emails

nepkkk

@LymbicSistem said:
There's also free tier of services like mail chimp, constant contact sendinblue.

If you do reach their limits then the prices are very high even for the lowest priced tier.