Ghost handles email differently than most CMS platforms. It ships with newsletter capabilities built-in but requires external SMTP for transactional emails and lacks automated digest features entirely. This post covers setting up both transactional email through Mailgun and building an automated weekly digest system using AWS Lambda and EventBridge.
The weekly digest system we built sends every Monday at 9 AM, compiles posts from the past week into bookmark cards, and integrates with Ghost's native newsletter management. Members can subscribe or unsubscribe through Ghost's interface while automation handles the compilation and sending.