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Postal

postal.atech.media
Email Marketing
Weekend Project

An open source mail delivery platform

How to Replace Postal
Compare:vs EZ Textingvs Mailjetvs Elastic Email

Overview

Postal is a complete and fully featured mail delivery platform for websites and web servers. It provides an open source alternative to commercial services like Sendgrid, Mailgun, and Postmark that you can run on your own servers. It includes a comprehensive web interface, scalability, webhooks, and security integrations.

Features

6 features across 6 categories

Deliverability(1)

IP Pools

Send mail from different IP addresses to help build and maintain good IP reputation

Also in: SendGrid, Klaviyo, Moosend

Development(1)

Development Mode

Automatically hold messages in Postal as needed to handle testing during development

Also in: Kissflow, Lattice, WordPress.com

Infrastructure(1)

Scalability

Easily horizontally scale mail service up and down as needed

Also in: Litmos, marvel-app, LiveKit

Integration(1)

Webhooks

Set up webhooks to notify HTTP endpoints when messages are delivered or have issues

Also in: monday.com, Notion, Airtable

Security(1)

Spam & Anti-virus Integrations

Integrate with SpamAssassin, rspamd and ClamAV to have incoming and outgoing messages checked for threats and spam

Also in: Hugging Face, Notion, Airtable

User Interface(1)

Comprehensive Web Interface

Manage mail servers and view mail logs through an easy to use web interface

Also in: Zapier, BrightPay, GnuCash

Cost Calculator

Pricing data not available for Postal. Check their website for current pricing.

Build vs Buy

Should you build a Postal alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 6 features.

Buy Postal

Better Value
Monthly costContact Sales
3-year totalVaries
Time to deployDays

Build Your Own

Development cost$12,000
Maintenance$180/mo
3-year total$18,480
Dev time~1 months

Buying Postal saves ~$18,480 over 3 years vs building.

Estimates based on 6 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.

Integrations

3 known integrations

ClamAVrspamdSpamAssassin