Prompt
What SMTP service should I use for a web app?
Latest observation
For a web app, the best SMTP service is usually an email API/provider rather than raw SMTP, unless you specifically need SMTP for legacy reasons.
Good choices
- Postmark — great for transactional email, very reliable, simple setup
- SendGrid — popular, flexible, good docs, broad feature set
- Amazon SES — cheapest at scale, more setup/ops effort
- Mailgun — developer-friendly, good for transactional and some marketing use cases
- SMTP2GO — easy SMTP relay, solid if you want plain SMTP with good deliverability
My quick recommendation
- Transactional emails only (password resets, receipts, alerts): Postmark
- Need low cost at scale: Amazon SES
- Want a general-purpose option with lots of integrations: SendGrid
- Want simple SMTP without much fuss: SMTP2GO
What matters most
Choose based on:
- Deliverability: do emails land in inboxes?
- Ease of integration: SMTP vs API, SDK support
- Pricing: per email, monthly volume, hidden fees
- Features: webhooks, logs, bounce handling, templates
- Compliance/support: region, SPF/DKIM/DMARC help, support quality
Important note
If your app sends important emails, set up:
- SPF
- DKIM
- DMARC
- a verified sending domain
If you tell me:
- your stack (Node/Python/Rails/etc.),
- expected email volume,
- transactional vs marketing,
- budget,
…I can recommend the best specific provider and setup.
Observation history
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