Sending emails
Hey, wondering whats the best option to send emails to users. Right now sending emails for verifying the users email. Currently testing out gmail smtp, but I'm hearing about resend and sendgrid, etc. Why would I go with these services and not gmail smtp considering how easy it is to setup with something like nodemailer?
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(Also a google workspace customer if that has any relevance)
You still have to set it up and maintain, on top 500 emails per day limit for gmail standard accounts. They also look bit non professional imagine receiving [email protected] email for verification doesnt really leave a good business taste. You can probably get a google workspace account which cost with higher limit of 2000+ a day.
Sendgrid and other providers not only provide you with ability send email but do stuff like templating, campaigns, webhook, analytics. All of them pretty much have 100-300 emails per day tier you might find better deals also. Also in this scenario you can just call an API to do this no need to even do anything else.
So you can if you want and your need is not more than just 500 email per day and don't really need it and for small use cases if you're comfortable with gmail you can go with it.
Yeah I have a google workspace account so I have an email that's attached to my business's domain. You raised a great point about analytics, not sure if google have that in the console. Templating might be a selling point aswell.
I heard a lot abt https://resend.com/ being a good email provider for react based emails, but didn't get the chance to check it out.
Resend
Build, test, and send transactional emails at scale.