Evaluate Mail-For-Good

[hollomancer]

Mail for Good is an open-source Mailchimp/Sendgrid alternative for email marketing, made by our friends at Free Code Camp. We can save a significant amount of money by using it, but it's unclear how stable and reliable it is, or whether the featureset will meet our needs.

https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/Mail-for-Good

[JacobMGEvans]

Looks like if you set up your own dedicated server this can save a tremendous amount of money, especially since that biggest cost with their setup was the VPS/Dedicated Server they were using. Their setup in their docs mentioned 1gb memory and 1 core processor; possibly a cheap self-built server machine could be made with a couple Raspberry Pi, which would likely be more powerful than that Virtual Provider.

• Edit (date: 6/9/18): I am currently trying to find a way to test the Email Blast with a Load Testing tool possibly Artillery.io and Faker.js

• Edit (same, 1351hrs): I founds MailTrap which seems to be a way to test blasts. There is a free version - https://mailtrap.io/

[JacobMGEvans]

Another possible way to test would be with JMeter (Java-based Load Tester capable of testing SMTP and other mailings protocols) and Postal (Mail server). This blog gives an example of using the two tools together and could be reconfigured for testing the Stability of Mail-For-Good.

Another tool but I am less confident in that the last few suggestions is MultiMail 2.0 it is, however, an SMTP stress testing tool.

[hollomancer]

It says it's in beta - very curious how fully-featured it is...