Garrett St. John

I am a web developer and partner at Bold. This is where I share my thoughts, discoveries and other random bits.

Topic Archives: Email Marketing

4 Reasons Open Source Email Marketing Sucks

December 3, 2009

I’ve tried quite a few open source email marketing solutions from Mailman, to PHPMailer, to poMMo and they all suck for one reason or another. Here are my reasons why: 1. They are self hosted solutions In my experience, self hosting email marketing rarely works out well. Most hosting providers have tight limits on how [Keep Reading…]

poMMo: Open Source Email Marketing Software

August 12, 2009

Occasionally I have some smaller clients that want to use self-hosted email marketing software. Although not typically advisable, I have given in for some clients with small subscriber lists (the idea being that it will get them started and they can upgrade to a paid tool down the road). Up until last week, I was [Keep Reading…]