Postal vs useSend
Postal and useSend are both email sending and templating software. Postal is open source under MIT, with 17k GitHub stars. UseSend is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 4.8k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Postal when
- You send large volumes of transactional email and want your own Sendgrid-style platform on your own IPs.
- Pick useSend when
- You want Resend or Postmark convenience at SES prices, hosted or self-hosted.
Side by side
A self-hosted mail delivery platform for sending and receiving email from apps over SMTP and HTTP API, with click and open tracking and webhooks.
An email platform for transactional and marketing email that sends through Amazon SES, with an API, SMTP, dashboards and contact lists.
Deliverability, IP reputation and abuse handling become your job.
Depends on an AWS SES account and its sending limits, and the project is young under AGPL.
Production-ready
Usable
Self-hosted server
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Ruby, Rails and MariaDB
TypeScript, Next.js, PostgreSQL and Amazon SES
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
17k GitHub stars
4.8k GitHub stars
Established: started 9 years ago, latest release 3.3.7.
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v1.10.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.