Build Robust & Production Quality Applications - Lesson 6: Email Service Providers

With Gmail, there are clear sending limitations.

Sending out emails is something that you should offload onto a third-party provider as it is a critical business process. You want to ensure emails are recieved right away and not in the recipients email folder.

Mailgun & Postmark are the recommended email service providers. When considering vendors, you want to focus on devliverability.

Check out the is Quora article on comparing well-known email service providers. In this course, we will use Mailgun.

Good blogpost for getting set up with Gmail.