#smtp server for website

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lean stream
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Im having trouble finding a good and free way to send emails from my flask api. This is for commercial use btw.

digital gust
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free way? nope, that would mean spam

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cheap way? yes, godaddy and a PHP sendmail back-end

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another cheap way?
use your home IP as a mail server,
but will be probably blacklisted as a SPAM range by your ISP

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another way, use gmail and some API interface

lean stream
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i dont mind it to be spam

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the emails are all going to be send to myself

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i tried sendgrid but it does not work for some reason

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i do not get an error message but the email is never sent

digital gust
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try gmail

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I have code for gmail API in Java, not so sure about Python3

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it's not SMTP, it's something else, but it works

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otherwise, your local web server with python should have a sendmail, exim, postfix relay

lean stream
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is this method free?

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or do i have to pay google for their services?

digital gust
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free

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but you must host your backend somewhere

lean stream
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i plan to host it on railway

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will that work?

digital gust
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maybe

dusty estuary
robust prism
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Free version of SendGrid is the best I have used for most cases. Only with some corporate environment that are locked down you need to upgrade to have DKIM etc - so you can mail through their gateway.

I found with government hospital I could not reliably use SendGrid tho, so I had to use application password for a Gmail business account using google SMTP through that.