Comment by Gergely Polonkai on "What is the friendly, simple and less complicated alternative to PHPMailer, without SMTP and third parties?"

CommentWhat is the friendly, simple and less complicated alternative to PHPMailer, without SMTP and third parties?

Gergely Polonkai

You have to believe in things that are not true. How else would they become?

Mar 14, 2018

There are a lot of mailer services out there, mailgun and SendGrid being two of them (disclaimer: Iʼm a user of both services).

SMTP is a good thing, if you have an in-house SMTP server that you can use for this. However, setting up an SMTP server is a real burden, especially if you want to do it right, so a lot of sites use such mailing services.

Some of them are free (with a limit), others are paid
They are available using some API, usually REST
Most of them have nice SDK-s for major languages, like PHP
As a fallback, some of them even provide an SMTP gateway if you canʼt/donʼt want to use their API

If I were you, I would go and discover these services to find which one fits the needs of the projects best.

Gustavo Benedito Costa

Deaf-born, computer science student and language lover

Mar 14, 2018

Gergely Polonkai

<blockquote>SMTP is a good thing, if you have an in-house SMTP server that you can use for this. However, setting up an SMTP server is a real burden, especially if you want to do it right, so a lot of sites use such mailing services. </blockquote>

It can be, bit it gives always us problems, so I prefer building without setting SMTP, it is why I will show you the topic: github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/issues/1110

And do mailgun and SendGrid require me to enable and set SMTP? If so, I hope it work.

Do mailgun and SendGrid support the switch of different e-mails?

You can use both SMTP or an HTTP API. In fact, both services prefer the API, and provide SMTP only as a fallback.

Yes, both services support sending from different addresses.

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