We have a small engineering team and don't want to maintain email infrastructure. What should we use?

If you’re a small engineering team and want to avoid running your own email infrastructure, the usual recommendation is:

Use a managed email provider

Good options:

• Google Workspace — best if you want full business email + docs/calendar and low ops burden
• Microsoft 365 — similar, especially if your org already uses Microsoft tools
• Fastmail — simpler, excellent for team email and custom domains
• Zoho Mail — budget-friendly option for basic business email

If you mean sending product/app email rather than team mail:

• Postmark — great for transactional email, very reliable
• SendGrid — flexible, widely used
• Mailgun — good API-based sending
• Amazon SES — cheapest at scale, but more setup/ops

Recommendation

• For human email: Google Workspace or Fastmail
• For app emails: Postmark (best default choice for most teams)

Why not self-host?

Because it’s a lot of ongoing work:

• deliverability issues
• spam filtering
• DKIM/SPF/DMARC setup
• blacklists
• monitoring and abuse handling

If you want, I can recommend the best choice based on whether you mean employee email, customer support email, or transactional product email.