Can anyone recommend a *free* RSS to email newsletter service?
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@Edent not quite what you're asking for, but I've been really enjoying my hacked together system where I send out content from my blog via Substack using a copy-and-paste "API" https://observablehq.com/@simonw/blog-to-newsletter
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@simon
Ta, that's interesting.
I tend to schedule my posts weeks (and sometimes years) in advance. So am looking for something much more set and forget. -
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@jsjoshua
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Jonathan Joshuareplied to Terence Eden last edited by
@Edent It mostly just works, but I'm happy to try to answer any questions.
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:wordpress: Jackreplied to Terence Eden last edited by
@Edent I think Mailchimpβs free plan offers this.
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Terence Edenreplied to :wordpress: Jack last edited by
@jackmcconnell
Free plan only allows 500 subscribers. -
@Edent What about some easy and nice plugin as The Newsletter Plugin and use a delivery email service as Mailgun? It can be 80 cents for a 1000 emails
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@danicotillas
Sure. Can you please send me the $300 I'll need each year? -
@Edent
Even though It looks like a huge expense the autonomy and sovereignty you need to be sending that amount of emails is well worth 300$/year! If you can't maybe Mailpoet can do the work... Although I think It will charge you after 1000 emails per month as well.
It would be good to see what do you pay to any other service that doesn't charge you money for letting you send those emails: data, user analysis, etc... so you don't become the product -
@danicotillas I really don't understand your reply.
I specifically asked for free services. You suggested an expensive one. I assumed that meant you could easily afford it.Can you afford to send me $300?
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Terence Edenreplied to Jonathan Joshua last edited by
@jsjoshua I'm playing with it now.
I can't see any way to have it automatically send new blog posts to subscribers.
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Quentin Stafford-Fraserreplied to Terence Eden last edited by
@Edent Not quite what you asked for, since I canβt yet give a personal recommendation, but I have had Listmonk (like Dan Q) above on my βwant to tryβ list for some time, along with https://github.com/ElliotKillick/rss2newsletter .
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Terence Edenreplied to Quentin Stafford-Fraser last edited by
@quentinsf that does look good! But I am reluctant to try and maintain something like that.
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Jonathan Joshuareplied to Terence Eden last edited by
@Edent There's a free plugin called instasend that adds a button to the blog compose screen to send each post via your newsletter. I guess the automated option is a paid add-on. I manually generate and send monthly newsletter and Newsletter automatically imports a specified number of posts into the draft newsletter via an RSS block. Sorry if I took you down the wrong path.
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Terence Edenreplied to Jonathan Joshua last edited by
@jsjoshua it was an interesting rabbit hole - thank you
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OK, I've got rid of #JetPack and am now using Follow.it for sending my blog via email.
You can subscribe for free at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/#secondary
Feedback on the service very welcome!
It does a full HTML feed, including images. Only limitation is that it only checks for new posts evert ~6 hours. But I rarely post breaking news, so that should be OK.
Let me know what you think of it.
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Dylan </closingtags.com>replied to Terence Eden last edited by
@Edent Glad you figured something out! And thanks for posting sharing your solutions. I've got a feeling a lot of people are going to be looking to migrate data and blogs soon.
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@Edent Do we need to resubscribe? Presumably ask that will happen by magic?
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@owenblacker
I'm hoping the import will happen automagically - but feel free to resubscribe to test things out.
