My New Newsletter
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My friend Cory asked if there was a way to subscribe to email updates to my blog. Now I can proudly say: Yes, I have a newsletter! If you’d like to receive blog updates via email, fill out the form below (you can unsubscribe at any time).
Cory uses EmailOctopus to send his newsletter. I probably should have copied him, but I’m super frugal and didn’t want to spend $10 per month. I’ve set up my newsletter using:
- listmonk on my home server
- Cloudflare Tunnel exposing listmonk to the web
- Proton Mail’s SMTP to send emails
This costs me $0 per month! I think listmonk is very good, but the signup process for new subscribers is a little clunky. I might try Keila next (it looks a little smoother than listmonk, though less mature). If the number of subscribers to my newsletter grows dramatically then I’ll have to switch to a bulk email sender. I’ve used Mailgun in the past and found it quite user-friendly.
Let me know in the comments if you’d like a walkthrough of how to set up a newsletter like this and I’ll work on adding more details to this post.