Is there any mail-by-API provider for personal use?

Question

I remember using mailgun a decade ago or so. But every single site I check now requires me to enter a company name or work mail address (no Gmail etc). So where to go when I want to send some simple alert mails to myself when something in my scripts goes wrong?

blamarvt · Accepted Answer

Isn&rsquo;t SMTP an API? Why would you pay or complicate things when you can just send email with libraries available in every language?

LinuxBender · Answer

Fastmail has an API [1][1] - https://www.fastmail.com/for-developers/integrating-with-fas...

byoung2 · Answer

Why not just use the Gmail API? https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides

KomoD · Answer

> But every single site I check now requires me to enter a company name or work mail address (no Gmail etc).Which have you checked?

AlexITC · Answer

AWS SES works nicely and the costs for personal usage will likely be close to 0.

mcwhy · Answer

3,000 emails are included in oracle free tier

shaunpud · Answer

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Is there any mail-by-API provider for personal use?

I remember using mailgun a decade ago or so. But every single site I check now requires me to enter a company name or work mail address (no Gmail etc). So where to go when I want to send some simple alert mails to myself when something in my scripts goes wrong?

Isn’t SMTP an API? Why would you pay or complicate things when you can just send email with libraries available in every language?

Fastmail has an API [1]
[1] - https://www.fastmail.com/for-developers/integrating-with-fas...

Why not just use the Gmail API? https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides

> But every single site I check now requires me to enter a company name or work mail address (no Gmail etc).
Which have you checked?

AWS SES works nicely and the costs for personal usage will likely be close to 0.

3,000 emails are included in oracle free tier

smtp2go