A Comprehensive Guide to Transactional Email
Transactional email powers password resets, receipts, confirmations, and verification codes. This guide covers how it works, how to send it, how to choose a provider, authenticate your domain, improve deliverability, and run email reliably at scale.
Highlights
- Foundations: What transactional email is, how it differs from marketing email, and the common types you'll send.
- Sending: How transactional email gets delivered, how to choose and compare providers, and how to send your first one with templates, personalization, and localization.
- Deliverability: How to authenticate your domain with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC and keep your email out of the spam folder.
- Production: How to run transactional email reliably with retries and idempotency, measure it, and know when to go multi-channel.
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