The hosted Sendy alternative.
You loved Sendy for one reason: cheap AWS SES sending. You stopped loving it for another: keeping the cron jobs alive on a $5 VPS at 2 AM. SES Mailbox keeps the economics and ditches the operations.
Why people leave Sendy
Sendy is a brilliant piece of PHP software. For $59 and a $5 VPS, you can send millions of emails through AWS SES every month. The math is undeniable.
The catch is everything around the sending. Sendy's bounce handling relies on a cron job that polls an IMAP inbox. When it breaks (and it will), bounce processing stops silently and your sender reputation tanks. The dashboard hasn't seen a real refresh in years. No drag-and-drop builder, no behavioral segments, no automations, no real REST API.
What modern Sendy users actually need
- Hosted, not self-hosted. No VPS, no MySQL backups, no PHP upgrades.
- Real bounce + complaint handling. Native AWS SNS webhooks, not IMAP polling.
- A modern builder. Drag-and-drop, responsive previews, dark-mode tested.
- Dynamic segments & automations. Rebuilt automatically as data changes.
- The same AWS economics. Direct AWS SES at $0.10 per 1,000.
SES Mailbox is Sendy's hosted, managed, modern equivalent. Same AWS SES leverage. None of the ops. One-click Sendy import pulls your subscribers, suppression list, and custom fields.
How to switch from Sendy
- Run our SQL query against your Sendy MySQL (or share read-only credentials).
- Re-use your existing AWS SES IAM credentials — sender reputation transfers.
- Import subscribers, suppression lists, and custom fields.
- Rebuild templates in the drag-and-drop builder.
- Decommission the Sendy VPS. Sleep better.
Same AWS SES economics.
Real product on top.
One-click Sendy CSV import. Free plan available. Sleep better tonight.