01-28-2016, 07:37 PM
If you've ever tried to mess with sending emails from a server, it can be a royal pain in the butt. Things go to spam folders, they don't send and diagnosing your individual problems means digging through server logs and wondering if gmail is just throwing your emails away.
Enter SwiftMailer. Version 4.x is using SwiftMailer as the library to provide email functionality as opposed to the generic php sendmail feature.
Since SwiftMailer is just the library, we need a way to send the actual email. You could send it from your server itself, but that gets into a lot of the problems that we've already talked about. Obviously, I'm not taking this feature away, it will just need some configuration.
The preferred initial method to use for sending emails so far is Mailgun. You sign up for a free account. No credit card requires. You confirm your email and phone, setup some dns records, and you can send 10,000 emails per month for free.
If you need more than that, things like Mandril become cheaper.
I'm definitely open to discussion on this. What say you all?
Enter SwiftMailer. Version 4.x is using SwiftMailer as the library to provide email functionality as opposed to the generic php sendmail feature.
Since SwiftMailer is just the library, we need a way to send the actual email. You could send it from your server itself, but that gets into a lot of the problems that we've already talked about. Obviously, I'm not taking this feature away, it will just need some configuration.
The preferred initial method to use for sending emails so far is Mailgun. You sign up for a free account. No credit card requires. You confirm your email and phone, setup some dns records, and you can send 10,000 emails per month for free.
If you need more than that, things like Mandril become cheaper.
I'm definitely open to discussion on this. What say you all?