Prompt
What do developers use for application email?
Latest observation
Developers usually use one of these for application email:
- SMTP services: e.g. SendGrid, Mailgun, Amazon SES, Postmark, SMTP2GO
- Transactional email APIs: the same providers above, but used through an API instead of raw SMTP
- Mail libraries in code: e.g. Nodemailer (Node.js), smtplib (Python), JavaMail, PHPMailer
- For testing locally: tools like Mailtrap, Papercut, smtp4dev, or MailHog
If you mean “what do they use to send app-generated emails like password resets or receipts,” the most common choice is a transactional email service such as SendGrid or AWS SES.
If you want, I can recommend the best option for your stack (Node, Python, PHP, etc.).
Observation history
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