Saturday 26 May 2018

Emailing in Node question: why use mailgun, mailchimp, etc. instead of just using an SMTP server locally?

Like the title says, it seems like most learning resources where you build an app that sends user-confirmation emails, password-reset emails, etc. have you using a 3rd party emailer.I checked the pricing for these to see what happens when I go over my "free tier" limit, because of course, my app will be the next Facebook, and they're all pretty expensive.It makes me wonder why not just use an SMTP server locally? Can't you do that (I'm a beginner and legit don't know)? I assume you'd have to pair with some queue of some kind also.

Submitted May 26, 2018 at 06:27AM by Early_Significance

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