Newsletter Sender is back

In a previous life, I founded a successful self-service email marketing platform. Long story short, our upstream provider was sold, leaving their resellers high and dry with a frankly brutal 48 hours’ notice. Fast forward 12 years: while running an audit of my domains the other day, I realised I’d held on to the original name, newslettersender.com. Later that evening, with nostalgia well and truly kicking in, I had a bit of a brainwave: why not build my own platform from scratch?

So, that’s officially the latest project underway. It’s designed to run cleanly on your own Cloudflare account, routing outbound mail through whichever provider you prefer: Amazon SES, Mailgun, Resend, Postmark or Brevo. They’re all solid options, though I’ll always have a soft spot for SES simply because of how rock-solid it’s been for me over the years. If you fancy giving it a go, my Amazon SES guide walks you through the set-up.

First look

Watch this space for progress updates, including plans for a dedicated edition tailored to agencies and resellers down the line.

Latest article: Mox

My latest write-up takes a detailed look at Mox, a free, open source mail server bundled into a single, tidy binary. It includes built-in webmail, a self-learning spam filter and virtually every modern email security standard enabled right out of the box.

Have a read to see where it genuinely shines, and where it still leaves a few gaps.

Until next time