Over the past year-and-a-half I've been actively looking for a free or reasonably priced self-hosted autoresponder solution. I came across many... from free to paid, from Wordpress plugins to self-installed scripts. They were either too expensive for my tastes, quite buggy or flat out did not perform in a reliable manner. Eventually, I somehow stumbled across Maian Responder.

This self-hosted autoresponder installs in a straight forward manner and has an easy to use front-end interface. Functionally simple without too many bells and whistles and it works fantastic. In addition, David's support is second to none.

Jerry Higgins

Maian Music software is most excellent. Thank you David! As a coder myself, I am totally impressed with the professional quality of the design of this software. I want to express my appreciation for your efforts for putting this Maian Music package out there as a free tool for aspiring digital media sellers.

Stuart de Usoz. Recording artist/Web Developer, Barcelona, Spain

I really love your software! So smooth and essential, it is exactly what I need!!!

Jessica Olmi

We've looked at using the big brand providers of email processing before but you notice their free offerings don't include the features you want and the paid options are too expensive for companies dipping their toes into the water of marketing in this way.

We wanted the ability to auto schedule an email to go out a week or so after the initial sign up and the Maian Responder does it for us. Its configurable enough for us to set it up to use a verified, DKIM enabled, SPF enabled, google SMTP service so we have the best hopes of getting the mail to it's intended recipient and our potential customers aren't confused about who is sending it, because it's coming from us, not a third party domain sending on behalf of us.

The free service enabled us to confirm it would work for us but we then had no hesitation in paying the low cost to help Maian develop the software further.

Tony B - Mobunti Limited

I am a complete newbie to php ticket support applications....it is not part of my job and I am not even a programmer. So when my partners told me to get a ticket support system up and running, with a "just make it happen" attitude, I was a bit overwhelmed.

Lucky for me I stumbled onto Maian Support and found David Ian Bennett. I do not know if Maian is a good support system or not, it does not really matter.

What I do know is that David offers the best support and services I have ever received. I have asked him endless questions (some of them really stupid) and he never gives up....his patience is endless.

I do not know David, we have never met and I have never spoken to him on the phone. For me, David is just a guy who really does give you "a helping hand" when you need it.

Kudos to you David, you deserve it!

Pakapaka (MaianMedia Forums)

I`m very happy after testing that we will have such a fine system to serve some of our communication needs. Very well thought out and effective system.

Vassil Loutchev

I chose Maian Support for its clean and responsive UI. It was a snap to install and the personal support is excellent.

Janet Jansen

Buying this software was the best investment that I made this year, because I have tried to go above and beyond in customising it to fit my needs, which has resulted in me learning a lot about PHP, mySQL, etc. (Prior to this, I simply knew my way around HTML and CSS).

The PHP is positively FILLED with helpful comment lines so that someone new to PHP can still find their way around and make edits without breaking the operation.

jjjjeczalik (MaianMedia Forum)

I've worked with a multitude of bulk email programs over the past 6 years and they all have their pros and cons. There didn't seem to be one that could do it all for me and some are so convoluted I just never got started or I spent loads of hours setting them up only to find out I needed to buy something before I could send 1000's of emails.

Maian Responder is self-hosted, feature packed yet simple to use and once you have installed and setup the system (which is very easy) you can fire away emails without worrying about escalating costs or email limits. Obviously, managing your own reputation carefully is a prerequisite but any legitimate email sender will understand this and not expect software to compensate for reckless email spamming.

Used in conjunction with Amazon's SES as your SMTP you can happily send 2000 emails a day (for FREE) without worrying about a thing.

If you are sick of hunting for a decent self-hosted option, buy Maian Responder and start marketing instead of cobbling together bad solutions.

Julio Graham (Managing Director - Olive Professional Services Ltd)

Maian Greetings was exactly what I needed for my ecard site.  The system is really impressive and the facility for personalisation is great.  I love the ability to include YouTube videos rather than just having to host every ecard on your server.  When I recently switched hosting services, I received excellent support from David to assist with the migration.  Very impressive.

Paul Solomons