making mail sender
I`m trying to make mail sender service but can't figure out how to use those online mail services. I tried using sendgrid and mailersend but I dont understand from where should I get that "from" email. I heard about smtp server but im not sure what it is and how to use it
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Selfhosting an SMTP server will likely not be a good idea. Your emails will get caught in spam filters 90-99% of the time
What exactly do you mean by
...but I dont understand from where should I get that "from" email...your "from" address can technically just be made up, but you should ideally own the address you pretend to be from, even if its just a
[email protected]those services do not like that my 'from' email is @gmail.com, does this mean I have to create business gmail account or smth like that?
https://sendgrid.com/en-us/blog/new-sending-requirements-for-gmail-yahoo is very relevant here
basicly, its not a good idea to try and use sendgrid to send from gmail addresses
I would 100% recommend getting your own domain and using that instead
also this https://sendgrid.com/en-us/blog/gmail-yahoo-updates-faq
yeah im just trying to test it with gmail domain but im getting a timeout and System.Net.Mail.SmtpException: Failure sending mail but not sure why
gmail specifically is a bad choice because they and sendgrid have some specific deals in place
a custom domain would probably just work without any configuration at all
is there a way to create a free one or should i just go with google free trial?
a free domain? not afaik
but its like $10 a year at most
for the cheaper tlds
I own like 5 😄
If you really want to send from your gmail address, I believe you can do that through SMTP
The amount of emails you can send this way is limited, though
https://support.google.com/a/answer/176600?hl=en
10k emails per day using SMTP relay, 2k per day using raw SMTP
you can buy a domain for
1$, and even renew it for 1$.
Any domain that consists of numbers and ends in xyz is cheap.
For example: 2732566.xyz
https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results/?domain=2362635.xyz you can check it out, it's only 84 centA good and cheap alternative of Sendgrid is Resend: https://resend.com/pricing
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