Anyone used Sendy?

[Andrew[MG]]

Self hosted email client https://sendy.co/

Any good?

[uber]

Its very good but Amazon are a nightmare to deal with unless your list is super clean. If things do go wrong you can use sendgrid or mailgun but a lot of stats will not work.

[Andrew[MG]]

Interesting as that might be a problem we have on the first email. Was your issue with open rate, unsubscribe numbers, spam reporting or hitting the spam folder in the first place?

[uber]

Andrew[MG] said:

Interesting as that might be a problem we have on the first email. Was your issue with open rate, unsubscribe numbers, spam reporting or hitting the spam folder in the first place?

They do everything possible to stop you from hitting big providers ban lists i.e gmail. If you are using an old/single optin list use mailgun for the first send and that will allow anyone who wants to unsubscribe leave. You can then move over to Amazon

[Andrew[MG]]

uber said:

They do everything possible to stop you from hitting big providers ban lists i.e gmail. If you are using an old/single optin list use mailgun for the first send and that will allow anyone who wants to unsubscribe leave. You can then move over to Amazon

Thanks for the Mailgun tip, that's probably going to save a few headaches. I've been a light Mailchimp user up until now so there's a lot to learn with both Sendy and Mailgun. Any more suggestions gladly taken!