I'm planning to add support for other email backends. For me, AWS makes the most sense as it's basically free for 99.9% of the population with its 62k free monthly email limit
Nice project! Can I offer a suggestion? Add support for goold old sendmail. Every email provider (Mailgun, Sendgrid, SES and others) have SMTP support and sendmail instructions. All of my home servers are already configured with it, so adding markdown to this setup would be sick.
Do you know whether the "62k free monthly emails limit" of the free-tier is available to existing AWS accounts, or a new AWS account must be created to enjoy free-tier billing?
Sounds like new and existing accounts, but only if the email originates within AWS EC2:
> When you call Amazon SES from an application hosted in Amazon EC2, you can send 62,000 messages per month at no charge. This Free Usage Tier benefit does not expire.
Do you have to do your own queueing to make sure you're not sending too many emails all at once and they get marked as spam? Or does SES handle that for you? And if it doesn't, is there any service that will do this?
What is a markdown email? Is it a mail body written in markdown, using the unprocessed markdown for the text/plain part, and generating a html part from the same?
Pretty sure you could to that with pandoc and heirloom mailx or something similar.
Except for the Markdown part, this command line looks very similar to the most minimal old Unix email interface. (Anti-spam measures effectively ended that, and now we need to pay service providers.)
Why is it "sadly"?
I would say that it is happily a wrapped around SES. There are use case for using mkdown in email and this tool helps address those use cases.
Seems the tool mentioned in this post is more for transactional email. But I wanted to comment on moonmail. Looks like that is for newsletters. I think https://sendy.co is sort of the same offering but much cheaper (you do have to host it yourself).
