Easiest option to send emails from PHP?

Question

I am developing social service in Drupal. There is need to send notifications to registered users.

Which option would be the easiest to integrate Drupal with and to send notifications to users?

• Amazon SES,
• Google App Engine,
• third party provider (like Sendgrid/PostageApp/CritSend)

SES/GAE are clear winners from business point of view.

This question is about which option would be the easiest to integrate with PHP code and which would provide least headache.

Please note that third party providers are not that easy to maintain, as they might drop emails without right MTA relay (unfortunately I experienced that problem with Sendgrid and another PHP service).

Answer 1

I would recommend you to use SwiftMailer, a PHP library that can easily send mails via any SMTP server, SendGrid will provide you with an SMTP server that you can use I believe.

Answer 2

Just want to throw PostageApp's hat into the ring. We've got some documentation on integration with PHP and our API is one of the cleanest and easiest to use around.

We're also exploring an integration with Amazon SES to capitalize on their great prices (And the free option!) so you might be able to use both? Happy to answer questions should you have any.

Answer 3

These days, handling email in house is a royal PITA. I recommend mailchimp instead.

Answer 4

in my opinion app engine(python). only a couple lines of code to create webservice to send out e-mail in python.

you just do simple post from cURL via PHP to sent email. easy as pie. Maybe later I will post a little snippet to achieve this :P.