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icaria36 🎶Speaking of <a href="https://sonomu.club/tags/EuropeanAlternatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EuropeanAlternatives</a>, is there any for <a href="https://sonomu.club/tags/TransactionalMail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransactionalMail</a> ? Not email providers, not newsletter providers, but those third parties that offer you a mail server to send email notifications and etc from your website.In my case, it's for <a href="https://sonomu.club/tags/Discourse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Discourse</a> instances. I'm still using <a href="https://sonomu.club/tags/Mailgun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mailgun</a> which, well, may or maybe not count as European given its owner <a href="https://sonomu.club/tags/Sinch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sinch</a>, but also I'd like to migrate to a more fair and social option if possible (also not to just a brand cover with AWS underneath).

Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂This <a href="https://aseachange.com/tags/gotosocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GoToSocial</a> account has become a step-by-step tutorial in how to self-host the publishing platform <a href="https://aseachange.com/tags/ghost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ghost</a> (and troubleshoot issues) 😆If you're not interested in my messages on the subject, I will be using a new hashtag <a href="https://aseachange.com/tags/eleselfhostsghost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EleSelfHostsGhost</a> so you can just mute it.I'm a little late to the party because everything is now set-up and running smoothly: ✅ I manually installed Ghost on my Ubuntu VPS ✅ I imported all the old posts and media: <a href="https://news.elenarossini.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://news.elenarossini.com</a> ✅ I installed <a href="https://aseachange.com/tags/apache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apache</a> to use <a href="https://aseachange.com/tags/varnish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Varnish</a> cache and changed the cache's maxAge so that a bit of traffic wouldn't overwhelm my VPS ✅ I published and shared on Mastodon a new blog post: <a href="https://news.elenarossini.com/what-im-up-to-march-april-2025-edition/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://news.elenarossini.com/what-im-up-to-march-april-2025-edition/</a> Thanks to Varnish and the maxAge cache tweak, the VPS withstood the "Mastodon stampede" (the post had made it to Explore!)So far so good.👹 but when I tried to send that blog post as a newsletter to just 210 people, <a href="https://aseachange.com/tags/mailgun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mailgun</a> immediately flagged me as a spammer and froze my account 😱It took about 48 hours of back-and-forth emails with the Mailgun team to convince them I'm not a spammer and to get my account reinstated.Now, why am I sharing all this?In case you are also tempted to self-host Ghost, I found that the official Ghost - Mailgun documentation has little information available. But I discovered this super helpful post in the Ghost Forums and I will be trying this tweak to see if it makes a difference:<a href="https://forum.ghost.org/t/unable-to-send-newsletter-with-correct-mailgun-api-keys/34186/6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forum.ghost.org/t/unable-to-send-newsletter-with-correct-mailgun-api-keys/34186/6</a>And yes, I'm aware that if you sign up for my newsletter you will get an email with a warning "this message failed the domain authentication" (or something along these lines). Problem is, when I implemented a tweak, changing config settings, the alert went away but I saw a spike in activity in my Dashboard, as if I had sent 600 emails (I did not). For now I can live with the warning.I appreciate Ghost's new implementation of a spam filter because around the same time I got really suspicious signups originating from the same domain.Anyway after I change all this I will try to send once again my blog post as a newsletter.Special thanks to my parents for looking after my little one so I can do all this while she's on a school vacation ❤️

Emily KingPeople self hosting Ghost CMS sites:Have any of you had issues getting Mailgun to play ball in regards to your account and actually allowing it to function.I've been temporarily disabled since I got my account verified.I'm losing hope for my account being enabled.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GhostCMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GhostCMS</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mailgun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mailgun</a>

*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoAdmin</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SelfHosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SelfHosting</a>I know there’s probably a bunch of Mastodon admins and self-hosters that use <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Mailgun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mailgun</a> for their email delivery.Beware a sophisticated-looking phishing email that’s trying to steal your login credentials.<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InfoSec</a>

BLACKVOID ⚫️<a href="https://mstdn.dk/@EvilCartyen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@EvilCartyen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MailGun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MailGun</a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SendGrid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SendGrid</a>

Jonathan KamensI attempted today to change my email address on <a href="https://federate.social/tags/MailGun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MailGun</a>.com, and wooh boy, it did not go well. This isn't nearly going to fit in one post, so buckle up. When I logged in, the site informed me that it was going to convert my MailGun login to a "Sinch ID" (MailGun was acquired by Sinch a few years ago). I was not given a choice about skipping this conversion. It seemed to go fine. (continued) <a href="https://federate.social/tags/ChangeOfAddress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChangeOfAddress</a> 🧵

Jonathan KamensFucking <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Comcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Comcast</a> is (again) bouncing emails from my family mail server with no explanation of why or what to do about it. Just "554 server not available". There is no legitimate reason to bounce emails from my server. I do _everything_ correctly (incl. <a href="https://federate.social/tags/DKIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DKIM</a> and p=reject <a href="https://federate.social/tags/DMARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DMARC</a>) and my server has been in continuous operation for over a decade. Comcast is the worst, but, they're not the only one pulling this crap. Yet another domain I have to route through <a href="https://federate.social/tags/MailGun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MailGun</a>. *sigh* <a href="https://federate.social/tags/smtp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#smtp</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/sysadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sysadmin</a>

tallshipIf Substack is perfect for your needs then use that. Your problem with substack prolly isn't who else uses it, but rather, that you yourself are calling a proprietary, privacy disrespecting deprecated monolithic silo a "Perfect solution".Instead of doing what's right, and for the right reasons, you eschew dogfooding on <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/foss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> when you should be championing it, and call a professional data mining haven perfect, when it is anything but. Well, you're already on the Fediverse, so you should know better, but I'll dispense with the lecture now and point out a few good FOSS solutions that are Fediverse powered (and one that isn't, but still rocks as a publishing platform) for you:<ul><li>Option #1, <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/writefreely" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WriteFreely</a>, which you can find over at its git repo under <code>https://gitHub.com/writefreely/writefreely</code>.</li><li>Option #2, deploy yourself a <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/wordpress" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordPress</a> site, Then install the <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> plugin - the latest release publishes into the Fediverse and allows any Fediverse account to reply/comment threads natively - like I'm responding now. It also allows anyone on the Internet to join the discussions as well. WordPress has many options for subscriber lists, Etc., as well as <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/paywalled" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paywalled</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/digital_downloads" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#digital_downloads</a>, if you like.</li><li>Option #3, <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/mitra" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mitra</a> is a Fediverse publishing platform that currently supports paid subscriptions for Authors: <code>https://mitra.fediverse.observer/list</code> - pick one that has open registrations or self-host yourself, like all of the other solutions here :)</li><li>If you're really talking about maintaining subscribers lists, but especially Having a subscriber list and building it up, then most ignorant folks would recommend HubSpot - but they would be wrong, because you can get the same powerful inbound marketing solution / <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/crm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CRM</a>, only better, for <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/free" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FREE</a> (That's a bare minimum savings of over $500/month)!!! So install <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/mautic" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mautic</a> and let it do what it does, which you can get here: <code>https://www.mautic.org/download/source-code</code> and then after that, use it in conjunction with the following FOSS application that was tailor made for exactly what you're asking for...</li><li><a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/ghost" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ghost</a> is FOSS, and in conjunction with an inbound marketing platform like Mautic is the perfect dynamic duo - like Batman and Robin. But even better, is that I'm going to point you towards a <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/howto" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HowTo</a> that is an actual cookbook <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/tutorial" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tutorial</a> written by someone expressing the same lamentations as yourself, and here's the exact solution they've provided for you:</li></ul><a href="https://www.readonlymemo.com/substack-to-ghost-migration-guide-in-2024-setting-up-mailgun-and-cloudflare/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.readonlymemo.com/substack-to-ghost-migration-guide-in-2024-setting-up-mailgun-and-cloudflare/</a>By the way, your Mautic server also integrates directly with <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/mailgun" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MailGun</a> (or Sendgrid, SendinBlue, SparkPost, etc.) to complete your transactional email system that will tell you when each and every recipient received, viewed (and or how long) your emails, as well as how many times they looked at those emails, with a bunch of other tools as well.I hope that helps, and I'm very glad that you came to your senses about not using a privacy disrespecting, proprietary closed source solution like Substack - besides, registering your own domain name would have hidden the fact that you were using substack anyway, so it's about YOU doing the right thing the right way. Please choose your software in the future based upon the freedoms and ethics it offers in serving you and your customers. There's evil people everywhere, and the smart ones are using FOSS too - not substack.<a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/tallship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/publishing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#publishing</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/subscriptions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#subscriptions</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/inbound_marketing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inbound_marketing</a> h/t to <a class="u-url mention" href="https://kolektiva.social/@marathon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@marathon</a> for boosting your post so it had much greater visibility across the Fediverse. ⛵ . RT: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/users/Audr3y/statuses/111858776974817210" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://kolektiva.social/users/Audr3y/statuses/111858776974817210</a>

tallship<a class="u-url mention" href="https://one.darnell.one/@darnell" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@darnell</a> <a class="u-url mention" href="https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@atomicpoet</a> <a class="u-url mention" href="https://toot.majorshouse.com/@majorlinux" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@majorlinux</a> <a class="u-url mention" href="https://blorbo.social/@admin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@admin</a>There's another <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/saas" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SaaS</a> provider offering turnkey <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/misskey" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Misskey</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/pixelfed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pixelfed</a>, and <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/soapbox" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Soapbox</a> hosting subscriptions at:<a href="https://12vpx.com/social-network" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://12vpx.com/social-network</a>I can't directly vouch for them, as I haven't actually had the opportunity to personally test out their services, but there's also a good Soapbox hosting provider located at: https:// Btrf.ly that I have extensively vetted and can recommend.#Digital_Ocean has a reputation for not being a cooperative provider with respect to running <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/smtp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SMTP</a> MTAs, and that's kind of an important thing for pretty much anyone running their own self-hosted services, IMO, unless you're willing to do everything through a 3rd party transaction email provider like <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/mailgun" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MailGun</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/sendinblue" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sendinblue</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/mandrill" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mandrill</a>, or <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/sendgrid" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sendgrid</a>.I hope that helps!<a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/tallship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fedivers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fedivers</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/foss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> #self_hosting <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a>⛵.

Hippo 🍉Is there a way to simulate <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MailGun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MailGun</a> without actually having an account?So if my service (specifically, Ghost, but it could be anything else) only supports MailGun, can I have a fake localhost MailGun API on my server that sends emails via ordinary SMTP instead?

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