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Ask HN: Which is the best open-source email server?

4 points by lzzzam ↗ HN
I am currently looking for a self-hosted solution to send email newsletter and have analysis tools to check for new subscribers, read statistic and so... Any suggestion? I am completely new to this argument

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Daedren
What you want is a newsletter management / email marketing / mailing list program, not a mail server.

Selfhosting an email server has its challenges, and when you're using it to send what people may consider spam, those challenges only get much harder.

lzzzam
are there open source solution? Any program you would suggest in particular?
kjs3
You probably should be asking yourself how important is this to you/your company and how is it going to be resourced, because the operational overhead of running this is non-trivial, and certainly not set-and-forget. You technically can do it yourself, but there's a reason ESPs[1] exist.

[1] Email Service Provider, before someone complains.

lzzzam
Which esp would you suggest for a job board that need to send weekly and alert to thousand of subscribers?

Are there any free provider that are commonly used?

kjs3
Disclaimer: I used to work for one of the big ESPs, but not for any of the ones I'll mention. My old company is more on the enterprise side these days. Not an endorsement of anyone and all that...

Free? You get what you pay for. Like I said, consider how much is this worth to your business. Email is hard work.

I know a lot of people who use Mailchimp for this and seem to be generally happy with them. Also Constant Contact and HubSpot (the latter I know has a free tier of some sort). There are a lot of players these days, many new since I was in the business, and a search for "Email Service Provider Newsletter" will turn up a ton.