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Dev tools · January 30, 2020

A self-hosted email engine

Everything you need to start sending newsletters, drip campaigns, transactional emails. Mailcoach is a fully featured email marketing platform built for growing creators, developers, and businesses.

A self-hosted email engine launched on January 30, 2020 with 149 votes, #176 of 3,486 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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In plain words

Mailcoach is a self-hosted email engine designed for developers and teams who want to manage email sending and campaigns on their own infrastructure. It handles email delivery, tracking, and campaign management without relying on external services. The self-hosted approach gives users full control over their data and email operations, making it suitable for organizations with specific privacy or compliance requirements.

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I’ve used SendGrid, Mailchimp & Mandrill. Nothing compares to Mailcoach , 100/100. Mailcoach has all the features that matter and none of the miserable bloat of those other platforms. Having used other marketing platforms, I was super pleased to see Mailcoach. It’s a breath of fresh air. Mailcoach is a fully featured email marketing platform built for growing creators, developers, and businesses. Send marketing emails with all the features you need—including segmentation, split testing and helpful analytics. Create powerful workflows for onboarding, generating leads, or anything else you have in mind. No coding skills required. Edit, send, and track transactional emails directly in…from mailcoach.app

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