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Using custom email provider?

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      shrey
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      Did anyone here ever figure out how to implement a custom email newsletter/provider with their Ghost instance?

      I'm trying to avoid going down the Mailgun route, if at all possible.

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        Did anyone here ever figure out how to implement a custom email newsletter/provider with their Ghost instance?

        I'm trying to avoid going down the Mailgun route, if at all possible.

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        @shrey have you seen https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/ghost/#email already?

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          Did anyone here ever figure out how to implement a custom email newsletter/provider with their Ghost instance?

          I'm trying to avoid going down the Mailgun route, if at all possible.

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          @shrey Oh sorry, you want to avoid mailgun. Unfortunately, Ghost only supports mailgun and nothing else - https://ghost.org/docs/faq/mailgun-newsletters/

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            @shrey have you seen https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/ghost/#email already?

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            @girish I have.

            Still hoping that someone might have found a 'hack' to integrate a provider other than Mailgun.

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              Have you read into this?

              I still want to use a different provider to send email newsletters, why can’t I do that?

              You can. There is no requirement to use Ghost’s built in newsletter delivery feature. Before we released this feature, thousands of people sent their newsletter using all sorts of other services such as Mailchimp, Sendgrid, Convertkit, and many others. You can easily sync your members database to an external newsletter provider via Zapier, or by following our detailed integration guides.

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                Have you read into this?

                I still want to use a different provider to send email newsletters, why can’t I do that?

                You can. There is no requirement to use Ghost’s built in newsletter delivery feature. Before we released this feature, thousands of people sent their newsletter using all sorts of other services such as Mailchimp, Sendgrid, Convertkit, and many others. You can easily sync your members database to an external newsletter provider via Zapier, or by following our detailed integration guides.

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                @privsec I'm currently trying the custom integration approach. But, I'm unable to obtain the fully rendered html for the email that Ghost natively delivers in the newsletter.

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                  Have you read into this?

                  I still want to use a different provider to send email newsletters, why can’t I do that?

                  You can. There is no requirement to use Ghost’s built in newsletter delivery feature. Before we released this feature, thousands of people sent their newsletter using all sorts of other services such as Mailchimp, Sendgrid, Convertkit, and many others. You can easily sync your members database to an external newsletter provider via Zapier, or by following our detailed integration guides.

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                  shrey
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                  Hi!

                  @privsec said in Using custom email provider?:

                  by following our detailed integration guides.

                  Trying my hand at this once more.

                  Could you point me towards those guides that you mentioned, that help in sending Emails, with full, original html content, using other integrations/services?

                  Also, so far, i've already tried the Content API and using the html data in the Post object. The styling breaks using this apporach.

                  Thanks

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                    privsec
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                    As linked on their site

                    https://ghost.org/integrations/?tag=email

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                      As linked on their site

                      https://ghost.org/integrations/?tag=email

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                      shrey
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                      @privsec
                      For Bulk/Newsletter emails, not transactional emails.

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                        This Ghost forum post linked to this service, Outpost. It's paid, but maybe its integration with Ghost will maintain the styling you want.

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                          This Ghost forum post linked to this service, Outpost. It's paid, but maybe its integration with Ghost will maintain the styling you want.

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                          @scooke

                          Thanks for the link! Just checked them out.

                          They don't really mention anywhere in their website that they provide the integration (free/paid). It might just be a part of their own product though.

                          And get locked into another closed service wouldn't be great 😕

                          Ideally, one needs to simply know what (inline) styling info to add to the html retrieved via the Ghost api.

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                            @shrey might be a question for the ghost forum - https://forum.ghost.org/

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                              Have you read into this?

                              I still want to use a different provider to send email newsletters, why can’t I do that?

                              You can. There is no requirement to use Ghost’s built in newsletter delivery feature. Before we released this feature, thousands of people sent their newsletter using all sorts of other services such as Mailchimp, Sendgrid, Convertkit, and many others. You can easily sync your members database to an external newsletter provider via Zapier, or by following our detailed integration guides.

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                                Have you read into this?

                                I still want to use a different provider to send email newsletters, why can’t I do that?

                                You can. There is no requirement to use Ghost’s built in newsletter delivery feature. Before we released this feature, thousands of people sent their newsletter using all sorts of other services such as Mailchimp, Sendgrid, Convertkit, and many others. You can easily sync your members database to an external newsletter provider via Zapier, or by following our detailed integration guides.

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                                @girish

                                @shrey might be a question for the ghost forum - https://forum.ghost.org/

                                Hey Girish. My discussion is only in response to this comment ->

                                @privsec said in Using custom email provider?:

                                Have you read into this?

                                I still want to use a different provider to send email newsletters, why can’t I do that?

                                You can. There is no requirement to use Ghost’s built in newsletter delivery feature. Before we released this feature, thousands of people sent their newsletter using all sorts of other services such as Mailchimp, Sendgrid, Convertkit, and many others. You can easily sync your members database to an external newsletter provider via Zapier, or by following our detailed integration guides.


                                As far as the Ghost forum is concerned, they are the 'adversary' in this case, as this particular issue is a long-existing, very infamous one, where every user of Ghost is forced to use only Mailgun as the Newsletter sender service. Hence the enquiry into the discovery of any other possible option/hack for this.

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                                  @shrey ah, I understood now! There is a small chance that the upstream Ghost forum has 'rebels' 🙂

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