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  5. Mailgun vs PHPMailer

Mailgun vs PHPMailer

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Overview

Mailgun
Mailgun
Stacks7.8K
Followers4.2K
Votes656
PHPMailer
PHPMailer
Stacks51
Followers78
Votes6
GitHub Stars21.9K
Forks9.9K

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Detailed Comparison

Mailgun
Mailgun
PHPMailer
PHPMailer

Mailgun is a set of powerful APIs that allow you to send, receive, track and store email effortlessly.

A full-featured email creation and transfer class for PHP. It is a class library for PHP that provides a collection of functions to build and send email messages. PHPMailer supports several ways of sending email: mail() , Sendmail, qmail & direct to SMTP servers.

Optimized Queue;Scheduled Delivery;MIME Assembly;Test Mode;ESP Feedback Handling;Unsubscribe Handling;Spam Complaint Handling;Bounce Handling;HTTP POST to your App;Routing w RegEx Filters;Parsing to UTF-8;Signature Separation;Quoted Reply Separation;Wildcard Domains;Spam Filtering;Live Logs;Message Tagging;Event Webhooks;Open/Click Tracking;Unsubscribe Tracking;Complaint Tracking;Bounce Tracking;Mailing Lists;Template Variables;A/B Testing;Link Performance;Geo Performance;Recipient Level Data;SMTP or HTTP API;Clean IP Addresses;SPF Authentication;DKIM Authentication;SSL/TLS;Scales on Demand
Integrated SMTP support - send without a local mail server; Send emails with multiple To, CC, BCC and Reply-to addresses; Multipart/alternative emails for mail clients that do not read HTML email; Add attachments, including inline; Support for UTF-8 content and 8bit, base64, binary, and quoted-printable encodings; SMTP authentication with LOGIN, PLAIN, CRAM-MD5 and XOAUTH2 mechanisms over SSL and SMTP+STARTTLS transports; Validates email addresses automatically
Statistics
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
21.9K
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
9.9K
Stacks
7.8K
Stacks
51
Followers
4.2K
Followers
78
Votes
656
Votes
6
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 178
    Quick email integration
  • 148
    Free plan
  • 91
    Easy setup
  • 67
    Ridiculously reliable
  • 53
    Extensive apis
Cons
  • 2
    Cost
  • 2
    No HTTPS tracking links supported
  • 1
    Cannot create multiple api keys
  • 1
    Emails go to spam due to blacklisted IP's of mailgun
Pros
  • 2
    Easy configuration
  • 2
    Widely used
  • 2
    Integrations for PHP based platforms
Integrations
AppFog
AppFog
Magento
Magento
Ghost
Ghost
Heroku
Heroku
Rackspace Cloud Servers
Rackspace Cloud Servers
Sendicate
Sendicate
WordPress
WordPress
cloudControl
cloudControl
Parse
Parse
sendwithus
sendwithus
WordPress
WordPress
Drupal
Drupal
SugarCRM
SugarCRM
PHP
PHP
Joomla!
Joomla!
Yii
Yii

What are some alternatives to Mailgun, PHPMailer?

Mandrill

Mandrill

Mandrill is a new way for apps to send transactional email. It runs on the delivery infrastructure that powers MailChimp.

Twilio SendGrid

Twilio SendGrid

Twilio SendGrid's cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. Twilio SendGrid provides reliable delivery, scalability & real-time analytics along with flexible API's.

Amazon SES

Amazon SES

Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email service. The service integrates with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon EC2.

sendwithus

sendwithus

Send email from your app with a simple API call, Sendwithus manages the rest. Templates, testing, data management, segments, and analytics are all accessible through a friendly dashboard.

Postmark

Postmark

Postmark removes the headaches of delivering and parsing email for webapps with minimal setup time and zero maintenance.

mailparser.io

mailparser.io

mailparser.io is a web-based email processing software which allows you to pull any kind of data from incoming e-mails based on custom parsing rules. The parsed data can be sent to any API with webhooks.

Mailjet

Mailjet

Mailjet is a real-time Cloud Emailing platform: scalable, agile and flexible. Our unique algorithm boosts your deliverability and our platform provides in-depth insight so you can optimize more than ever.

SparkPost

SparkPost

SparkPost is the world’s #1 email delivery provider. We empower companies with actionable, real-time data to send relevant email to their customers which increases engagement and both top and bottom line revenue.

Mailtrap

Mailtrap

We offer one platform that covers all email-related needs in one place: testing, sending, and in-depth tracking to control how email infrastructure works and performs.

Apostle.io

Apostle.io

Transactional emails are the forgotten step child of internet marketers. Apostle.io empowers marketers to manage transactional emails themselves, as they would their list based campaigns. Preview, Update, Analyse and Test your transactional email all in one place.

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