freecodecamp/mail-for-good repository overview

⁠Mail for Good

Please be aware that Mail for Good is currently in beta.

Looking to contribute? Read our developer setup guide⁠.

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An app for sending millions of emails as cheaply as possible. Mail for Good uses AWS Simple Email Service to send bulk emails at $0.10 per 1000 emails.

Mail for Good is fast and memory efficient, currently sending over 100 emails per second on a 1gb Digital Ocean VPS.

We've used Mail for Good to deliver newsletters to hundreds of thousands of campers per week.

⁠Sounds good? Give it a try!

"My instance is deployed, what now?"

In setting_up.md⁠ you'll find how to connect, create your admin account and set up your AWS credentials allowing you to send your first blast.

⁠What does Mail for Good do?

With Mail for Good you can:

• Send email campaigns of unlimited size.
• Import emails saved in CSV format.
• Create templates to reuse for convenience when sending email campaigns.
• Track bounce rate and other standard metrics. You can also insert tracking pixels and unsubscribe links at the click of a button.
• Add custom fields to imported email lists such as names or cities.
• Grant other users (limited or otherwise) permissions to use your account on your behalf.
• Add embedded HTML newsletter sign up forms to your site. These are snippets of code that will let your users sign up with you at the click of a button.

⁠Performance

We're currently sending weekly email blasts of over 800,000 emails in 4 hours on a $10 per month Digital Ocean VPS with 1gb memory and 1 core processor.

Mail for Good is fast and scales to the rate limit enforced by AWS.

⁠Why are we doing this?

We want to help nonprofits manage their email campaigns as inexpensively as possible, and have full control over their data.

⁠How to install locally

local deployment guide.md⁠.

⁠Troubleshooting

We're keen to tackle any issues people encounter. If you experience any problems, please create an issue and we'll get back to you.

⁠How to contribute

Found a bug? Please let us know by creating an issue⁠.

We warmly welcome contributions from anyone. Check out our how to contribute⁠ section to find out how you can do so.

⁠License

Copyright (c) 2018, freeCodeCamp.

This computer software is licensed under the BSD-3-Clause⁠.