Email List
Email List Software Requirements
- Group customized emails with several custom fields and different emails - such as for reaching out to recruiters
- Mass emailing, with checkable boxes for sub-email groups. Allows signup to multiple groups, and any of the groups can be selected for emails
- Allows HTML for interesting newsletters
2018 Revisit
In 2018, Marcin asked me (Michael Altfield) to setup an email list server, recommending phplist because it's what Lulzbot uses.
I began researching our options. Many non-profits, even with very small budgets, choose to use mailchimp. I asked around, and it seems that the analytics and a/b testing is the big benefit. I looked into opensource alternatives to phplist using the list at https://alternativeto.net/software/phplist/?license=opensource
- Mailman https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html
- Sympa https://alternativeto.net/software/sympa/
- OpenEMM https://www.openemm.org/
- + appears to have lots of good features
- mlmmj http://mlmmj.org/
- MailCtlr http://www.ctlr.it/
- - appears to have only 1 dev without a web interface
- Gutama http://gutuma.com/
- - website is broken & project is discontinued
- iReach
- Mautic https://www.mautic.org/
- Mailtrain https://mailtrain.org/
- Mail for Good https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/mail-for-good
- - currently beta
It looks like phplist by far is the best option, and it includes a/b testing as well as analytics. None of the other opensource projects had these features that I saw. For more info about phplist, see phplist
History - 2014
OSE Email Lists need to be integrated and invited into one master list. Mailman or Google Groups are options.
- mailchimp
- campaign monitor
- Open Source Ecology google group
- Factor e Farm google group
- True Fans
- OSE Announce
