Our email campaign app, directmailmac.com, lets you turn off open- and click-tracking.

Disclosure: I work there.

Another option, for Mac users: Direct Mail (https://directmailmac.com). Disclosure: I work there.

I’m not an ex-atheist, so I can’t speak from that perspective, but my faith has been the foundation I’ve built my life on and the lens through which I see and interpret the world. So you won’t be surprised that my suggestion is: yes, you should explore faith :)

If you are ever curious, this is my church: https://www.comeuntochrist.org

Good luck to you on your journey!

I was born in a Hindu Brahmin family. The answers to my questions have become more urgent as I grow older. Is faith different from organised religion? Regards and Thanks!

>Is faith different from organised religion?

Yes and No.

Faith in Philosophies to study and model one's life after in the context of a Society/Environment is very welcome. All Science started this way i.e. an attempt to model/understand the World and one's place in it.

Faith in the context of Organized Religion/Rituals without understanding the Philosophy behind it should be rejected. Doesn't matter who is pushing it.

There are Six major accepted schools of "Orthodox" philosophies under the umbrella term "Hinduism". But due to historical reasons, at current time the Vedanta/Upanishadic school is dominant and is conflated with the whole of "Hinduism" which is obviously not true. You might want to look into the different schools of Hindu Philosophy and see what appeals to you and model your life after it. Note that the Hindu philosophies span the entire spectrum from Vedas/Mimamsa Rituals/Sannyasa Upanishadic Renunciation to totally materialistic Charvaka/Lokayata belief systems. Whatever you choose should be in accordance (to a certain extent) with "Modern Science" to avoid/control cognitive dissonance.

PS: You might want to look into the set of volumes by S.N.Dasgupta named A History of Indian Philosophy. Vol-I gives an overview of all systems.

Thank you, I will look it up. I have a reading list and have read many from a theory perspective. I am re reading them but this time with a different perspective/goal.

Competitor that is a Mac native app: https://directmailmac.com

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Very nicely done. Here is part 2: https://codea.io/blog/detailing-the-ios-menu/

it just needs a little refinement, where the menu contents shift to the left/right, and out of the way of your finger when you swipe down through them.

You can see the per-device estimated App Store file sizes in iTunes Connect:

(navigate to your app) > Activity > All Builds > (select the version) > (select the build) > App Store File Sizes

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Hi All,

We just released version 4 of Direct Mail. The big new features include cloud syncing/collaboration, autoresponders, and a redesign for OS X Yosemite. Companion app for iOS also available at http://directmailmac.com/stamps.

Happy to take any questions or feedback. Thanks!

Love the native idea, but then I clicked on the pricing link - woah. I'm by no means telling you how to run your business, but the pay per email rates seam really high.

I wrote an email marketing system this week for my day job against the Mailgun API to do the sending and to send to 183k recipients, it'll cost us < $80 USD. It would be even cheaper if I used AWS but we're a Rackspace shop.

(I understand not everyone out there is a programmer, but the price is very high compared)

Good luck though.

I am obviously biased [1], but if you want a nicer (native) UI than Sendy, you might want to check out our app Direct Mail: http://directmailmac.com

It has a built-in delivery service, but can also plug into SES or any other SMTP service for a one-time fee.

[1] I am a developer of the aforementioned app

Looks nice, but it's even more expensive than Mailchimp unless you have your own mail server.

You can execute the process under sandbox-exec to take advantage of OS X kernel-level sandboxing. You'll need to write your own profile file that allows/denys what you want. There are plenty of examples of these .sb profile files under /System/Library. More: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...

Excellent! Thank you for pointing me to this!

Good tip. Another suggestion would be to use chroot :)

That said, the best, most foolproof way of doing this really comes down to using OS X to virtualize OS X.

Or you could try cross-compiling. It seems to work here: https://github.com/swift-x/tools (which looks interesting...)

It's possible that by the end of this week, maybe next, it will be very easy indeed to compile and/or run Swift on Linux from Linux, at which point you could try LXC or a million other ways to virtualize.

Thanks for the tips! I'd love to move to LXC should an appropriate/feasible compiling solution become available :)

This mechanism has been deprecated by Apple. In the header file they point out that one should use the OS X sandboxing instead which works with plists instead and can be controlled with less flexibility.

Calling sandbox_init from inside your app has been deprecated in favor of the App Sandbox mechanism, but I don't see any indication that sandbox-exec is deprecated.

Just deployed a new script runner backed by sandbox-exec! Thanks again for the tip!

(shameless self-promotion)

While you're waiting for them to get back to you, maybe I can tempt you to give our email campaign service a look? http://www.directmailmac.com. If you have any questions, we have live chat support available starting 7 AM PT tomorrow morning. Good luck!

thanks I actually dont see this as shameless as you title it :) however I still think the quickest for me to get an email out to my subscribers is to sort Mailchimp first I'll check your product for future emails based on my Mailchimp experience (pretty bad so far..)