Postal
📮 A fully featured open source mail delivery platform for incoming & outgoing e-mail (by postalserver)
red-mail
Advanced email sending for Python (by Miksus)
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| Postal | red-mail | |
|---|---|---|
| 42 | 22 | |
| 14,116 | 382 | |
| 3.2% | - | |
| 9.6 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 month ago | 5 days ago | |
| Ruby | Python | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Postal
Posts with mentions or reviews of Postal.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-26.
- Postal: Open-source mail delivery platform for incoming and outgoing email
- Postal – an open source postmark alternative
- Are there any self-hosted, modern mail servers (similar to Sendgrid, AWS SES, etc.)?
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Issues with urandom + Docker due to DSM kernel
It looks like I'm not the only person who has faced this. apache-based images require buster, for instance, and some docker images that rely on Ruby face issues too (for example, I decided to try setting up Postal but it looks like it's facing the same issues).
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Show HN: Dittofeed – 1-Click deploy, self-host Mailchimp alternative
A great self-hosted pairing might be Postal https://github.com/postalserver/postal
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Breaking Free: How I Self-Hosted My SMTP Server with Haraka. Send thousands of emails per second at the cost of pennies.
Previously I’ve used Postal, which is not simple but okay. Can I do better? Isn’t why I’m writing this?!
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Is there something like postal but with a full API?
This is postal: https://github.com/postalserver/postal
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What's the simplest possible dockerized SMTP email relay?
Try Postal.
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Are there any self-hosted alternatives to Mailchimp or Klaviyo?
https://github.com/postalserver/postal is my go to favorite.
red-mail
Posts with mentions or reviews of red-mail.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-07.
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What are the most underrated python libraries?
These two are more user friendly alternatives for sending and receiving emails: - Red Mail - Red Box
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Including Picture in text of email
Take a look at red-mail package.
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What high-level library would you use for sending email?
Red-mail was appealing, but I was not pleased with the misleading error message when a connection failed. Nor was I pleased to see there are no log messages in the code.
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Run external programs intuitively in Python
It's the creator of Rocketry, Red Mail and Red Box again. This week I thought to make it easier to integrate command-line programs to your Python applications.
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Red Box: Advanced email box reader
Some of you might know my other project, Red Mail, advanced email sender. This time I have quite a similar library to show, I just released a sister library for it: Red Box, the advanced email reader.
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What packages replaced standard library modules in your workflow?
For example, you can send emails using built-in smtplib and email, but there is also Red Mail. Which provides you simpler interface.
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What have you automated using Python?
I'm actually the author of Red Mail (email sending library) and Rocketry (Pythonic statement-based scheduler). I'm actually looking for example projects to create some practical tutorials of how one could use the libraries. Not sure which kind would be appealing to most and what kind of problems people have with alternative options (which I could address).
- Show HN: Red Mail – Advanced email sender for Python
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Need help writing a script to send mails to users and keep track
This can be easily achieved with Red Mail (for email sending), Red Bird (for handling the data in an abstract way) and Rocketry (for scheduling):
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Self-hosted email API for SMTP?
I have made a pretty handy SMTP sender for Python if the language is a bit familiar (the lib is extremely easy to use): https://github.com/Miksus/red-mail
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Postal and red-mail you can also consider the following projects:
docker-mailserver - Production-ready fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) running inside a container.
apprise-api - A lightweight REST framework that wraps the Apprise Notification Library
Haraka - A fast, highly extensible, and event driven SMTP server
flask-redmail - Email sending for Flask
MailHog - Web and API based SMTP testing
flask-mailman - Porting Django's email implementation to your Flask applications.
Listmonk - High performance, self-hosted, newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard. Single binary app.
rocketry - Modern scheduling library for Python
formspree - The successor to this repository is actively maintained at https://formspree.io. Its source code is not available
bibtex-autocomplete - Python package to autocomplete bibtex bibliographies
Courier MTA - Courier Mail Server
scriptor - High-level abstraction for command-line