Using custom email provider?

[shrey]

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.

[girish]

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

[girish]

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

[shrey]

@girish I have.

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

[privsec]

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.

[shrey]

@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.