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Email

Reference for email hosting, transactional APIs, newsletter platforms, and disposable email tools.

Email hosting

Section titled “Email hosting”
  • iCloud+ — email hosting with custom domain support for Apple users
  • Fastmail — independent email hosting focused on privacy and performance
  • Namecheap — affordable email hosting bundled with domain registration
  • Hostinger — basic email hosting for small sites
  • Mailbox.org — privacy-focused email hosting based in Germany
  • Tuta — end-to-end encrypted email with calendar and contacts
  • Proton Mail — end-to-end encrypted email based in Switzerland
  • ImprovMX — free email alias forwarding for custom domains

Email API

Section titled “Email API”
  • Mailgun — transactional email API with SMTP relay and log analytics
  • Postmark — transactional email delivery focused on inbox placement
  • AWS SES — Amazon Simple Email Service for high-volume sending
  • SendGrid — email API for transactional and marketing email
  • Mandrill — transactional email add-on for Mailchimp
  • Resend — email API for developers with React Email integration

Newsletter services

Section titled “Newsletter services”
  • Sendy — self-hosted newsletter tool that sends via AWS SES
  • Substack — newsletter and subscription publishing platform

Testing

Section titled “Testing”
  • Mail Tester — online spam score checker; send an email to the provided address and get a deliverability report

Local SMTP servers

Section titled “Local SMTP servers”

Local SMTP servers capture outgoing email during development — no risk of sending to real recipients.

  • Mailpit — modern successor to MailHog; SMTP server with web UI, REST API for integration tests, and HTML preview support
  • MailHog — simple Go-based SMTP test server distributed as a single binary; web UI and JSON API; no longer actively developed, Mailpit recommended

Temporary email

Section titled “Temporary email”
  • Email.ml — minimalist temporary email
  • Temp Mail — disposable email with a simple web interface
  • 10 Minute Mail — auto-expiring temporary email address

Disposable domain lists

Section titled “Disposable domain lists”