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EventMail

Newsletters from your own WordPress. No limits, no monthly bill.

EventMail gathers your subscribers, sends your newsletters in the background and keeps a record of every email. Your list stays in your own database and the mail goes out through your own mail service.

Price
Free
Subscribers
No limit
Templates
5
Licence
GPL
The EventMail composer in the WordPress admin: subject line, a choice of five templates, and the send and schedule controls.
Fig. 1 — The composerKeep scrolling

What it does

Four jobs, done properly.

01 — Write

Write it like a letter.

Pick a template, type your message and drop in ready-made blocks: a headline, a button, two columns, a note. Check how it looks on a phone and send yourself a test first.

  • Blocks made for email, not for web pages
  • Name and address filled in for each reader
  • Preview for desktop and phone
The editor with its block bar.

02 — Send

Sent in the background, a batch at a time.

A list of five thousand does not go out in one request. EventMail queues every recipient and sends in small batches, so shared hosting keeps up. Close the tab and it carries on.

  • Send now, or pick a date and time
  • Batch size and pause are yours to set
  • Works with any SMTP plugin or mail service
A send in progress.

03 — Grow

A list people chose to be on.

Put the sign-up form on any page with a shortcode. New subscribers confirm by email before they are added, so typos and fake addresses stay out.

  • Sign-up form with double opt-in
  • CSV import and export
  • Site users count as subscribers
Everyone on the list, with their status.

04 — Keep track

A record of every email.

The log lists each email that left your site: who it went to, when, and whether your mail server took it. When someone says “I never got it”, you can check in seconds.

  • Sent and failed, with the reason
  • A preview of each email
  • Old entries removed after 90 days
The email log.

By design

What it leaves out, on purpose.

A newsletter is a conversation between you and the people who asked to hear from you. The plugin stays out of it.

No

No tracking.

No tracking pixels in your emails and no rewritten links. What your readers open is their business.

No

No phoning home.

No telemetry, no account to create, no requests to outside servers.

No

No lock-in.

Subscribers live in your own WordPress database. Export the whole list to CSV whenever you like.

No

No hard goodbyes.

Every email carries a one-click unsubscribe link, and the plugin answers requests to export or erase a person’s data.

Free and Pro

Free now. Pro later.

The free plugin is complete on its own. A Pro add-on for larger lists is being built; it will add features, not remove limits, because there are none.

Available now

EventMail

Free, open source (GPL)

  • Unlimited subscribers and sends
  • Composer with five templates and content blocks
  • Sign-up forms with double opt-in
  • Background sending in batches, with scheduling
  • Log of every email, with previews
Visit eventmail.fantasythemes.net

In the works

EventMail Pro

No date or price yet

  • Drag-and-drop email builder
  • Opens and clicks, if you want them
  • Segments, automation and A/B testing
Join the waiting list

The list is kept on the EventMail site. One email when Pro is out; nothing in the free plugin will move behind a price.