How to Setup Ghost Blog Mail for FREE with Sendinblue and Mailgun | Ghost newsletter tutorial

In this tutorial, I want to share the main options on how to set up mail on your Ghost blog.
I'll cover both Mailgun setup (recommended by Ghost) and free alternatives as well.
For this tutorial, I assume, that you've installed Ghost using the method I shared in my previous video ▶️ • Ghost CMS + Google Clo...
List of the commands will be down below and available in text version of the tutorial 🔗 nickborodenko.com/ghost-blog-...
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:24 - How Ghost mail system works
01:12 - How to set up mail on Ghost blog
02:00 - Why you should not send emails from your server
02:34 - Option 1. 3rd party newsletter, disabled Ghost mail
02:56 - How to disable Ghost mail functionality
04:11 - Option 2. 3rd party newsletter, free 3rd party SMTP
08:56 - Option 3. Mailgun for everything
10:10 - How to test mail on your blog
10:45 - Be careful if you decide to use Mailgun
ℹ️ Commands, mentioned in video:
⚠️⚠️⚠️ TH-cam does not allow angle brackets and they are changed to !ANGLEBRACKET!
➡️ SENDINBLUE EMAIL CONFIG COMMANDS
sudo su -
nano /etc/postfix/main.cf
Scroll to the bottom and paste this:
relayhost = [smtp-relay.sendinblue.com]:587
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
smtp_tls_CAfile = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
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nano /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
Put your OWN credentials into the file (your email : Sendinblue-SMTP-key)
[smtp-relay.sendinblue.com]:587 [e-mail]:sendinblueSMTPkey
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postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
chown root:postfix /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd*
chmod 640 /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd*
systemctl restart postfix && systemctl enable postfix
➡️ SENDINBLUE GHOST DOCKER CONFIG
mail__transport "SMTP"
mail__from "SenderNAME !ANGLEBRACKET![e-mail]!ANGLEBRACKET!"
mail__options__service "SMTP"
mail__options__auth__user "[e-mail]"
mail__options__auth__pass "sendinblueSMTPkey"
mail__options__port "587"
mail__options__host "smtp-relay.sendinblue.com"
⚠️⚠️⚠️ Sendinblue might not allow you to send mail before you activate your account. You can complete activation by verifying your domain and creating a support ticket.
➡️ MAILGUN GHOST DOCKER CONFIG
mail__transport SMTP
mail__options__service "Mailgun"
mail__options__port 587
mail__options__auth__user "mailgun-username"
mail__options__auth__pass "mailgun-password"
mail__options__host "smtp.mailgun.org"

[@siddheshshinde4850]

The only video which explained in detail about Ghost mail configuration.

[@nickcattoncreates]

amazing video - thumbs up for the next video on other options!!

[@junglestar]

Thanks Nick

[@Dimas-ok6wu]

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[@shinebayar]

Quality content.

[@ecostica]

signed in to google just to thank you and thumbs up. Oh, and to subscribe. great stuff

[@NickBorodenko]

Thank you so much!

[@nelubelei9330]

Thanks

[@NickBorodenko]

Thank you for watching

[@vinayp-20]

Does option 2 enable both transactional and bulk email sending via Brevo(former SendinBlue)?

[@aloysiusthomas6536]

Thanks ❤, it's working perfectly on docker, however can you provide the config for normal ghost installation if possible?

[@NickBorodenko]

Thank you for watching! To perform a standard server installation without using a control panel or docker, you can follow the official guide at: ghost.org/docs/install/ubuntu/

[@harelzzz]

If I want to switch from sendinblue to mailgun, do I need to undo anything from the instructions on Option 2#?
Or can I just do the instructions like I never changed anything?

[@NickBorodenko]

Deleting the lines added at 06:50 and restarting mail service before proceeding with Mailgun config should be sufficient.
P.S. Apologies for the delayed response.

[@shitbi]

@nickborodenko I cannot access my docker container settings via cpanel. Everytime I click on the container, it takes me back to the cpanel homepage. How do I edit the env variables?

[@NickBorodenko]

Haven't used docker on cpanel - I don't know, what may have caused the issue, sorry

[@shitbi]

@@NickBorodenko do you just use it from the command line?

[@NickBorodenko]

No, I prefer graphic interface whenever that is available. I mean, I used docker on different control panels - but never on the cpanel (actually I haven't used cpanel itself for quite some time now).

[@user-kp1sj8gp1h]

Hello, pleace help, how integrate Sendniblue in Digital Ocean, not in a docker! Thanks...

[@NickBorodenko]

Hi! If your Ghost is not installed using docker, instead of docker variables you should be making changes to config.production.json file in your Ghost root directory.

[@ColearningLounge]

For DO + Ghost users: For everyone's knowledge, config.production.json is in the/var/www/ghost directory.

[@user-kp1sj8gp1h]

@@ColearningLounge Its work just a few code to jason file. You can connect any mail server...

[@ColearningLounge]

@@user-kp1sj8gp1h : We are aware of that 🙂

[@JunaidArshad_Pakistan]

I followed your instructions and was successfully able to establish relay between my machine and SendinBlue server.
I tested the configurations using mailx
But when I link my SendinBlue account to my ghost blog, it gives error on subscription/Membership.
Investigation reveals that SSL version is the culprit as the error states
"Failed to send email. Reason: 140030700509056:error:1408F10B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number:../deps/openssl/openssl/ssl/record/ssl3_record.c:332:"
How to resolve this error ?