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SendGrid

SendGrid provides a robust email relay solution to save developers from building, scaling, and maintaining their own email delivery solution or the email servers necessary to support their applications or services. They solve the technical challenges of email delivery including DK/DKIM, SPF, ISP rate limits, increasing deliverability and ensuring email continuity.

SendGrid serves as the email backbone for thousands of companies, having delivered billions of emails on their behalf. Beyond dependable email delivery, SendGrid users enjoy several additional features and benefits, including the following key advantages.

Key Advantages

Actionable analytics

Unique opens, unique clicks, bounces, blocks, invalid email addresses, unsubscribes, and spam reports

Scalability

The reliable and dynamic cloud-based infrastructure allows you to send hundreds or millions of emails per day

Email platform

SendGrid “applications” allow you to send newsletters, add an unsubscribe link, apply HTML templates, turn text to voice through the email-to-phone app, perform content inspection to detect messages that may be flagged as spam, and more. Each application can be enabled or disabled with one click.

SMTP API

Allows developers to deliver custom handling instructions for e-mail

Web API

A secure REST API over an encrypted channel allows developers to edit email lists (e.g., bounces, unsubscribes, spam reports), retrieve stats and send emails

Event API

Notify a URL in real-time of events such as clicks, opens, unsubscribes, bounces and spam reports

Parse API

Parse attachments and contents from incoming emails and POST the parsed email to a URL configured in your account. Application examples include receiving uploads and posting blog articles via email.