Overview
Dispatch is built for people who want real email marketing without renting their audience. It runs inside WordPress, stores subscriber data in your database, and sends campaigns through your SMTP with safety-first throttling.
Perfect for
- Small businesses doing email marketing in-house
- WordPress sites needing CAN-SPAM compliant newsletters
- Teams that want beautiful emails without third-party tools
- Anyone needing reliable SMTP with rate limiting
Core capabilities
- Safety & compliance – mandatory double opt-in, one-click unsubscribe, CAN-SPAM footer, List-Unsubscribe headers
- SMTP built in – TLS/SSL support, test tools, optional fallback to WP mail
- Smart sending – queue-based throttling, pause/resume, automatic retries, real-time progress
- Campaign tools – templates, merge tags, 3 editor modes, draft workflow, campaign history
- Subscriber management – statuses, filtering, source tracking, logs (CSV import/export can be added later)
The “don’t tank your domain” philosophy
Dispatch sends gradually on purpose. You control emails-per-minute and emails-per-hour so you can ramp up safely and protect deliverability.
Next up: Requirements and Installation to get it live.
Dispatch
Self-hosted email campaigns for WordPress: list management, sending controls, compliance tools, and privacy-first defaults.