Send Email From Your Application

There are two ways to send email using SendGrid, through our SMTP relay or through our web API. For advice on which one to choose, check out our SMTP vs Web API article.

SMTP is usually the fastest way to get started since only 3 changes are needed. These SMTP changes include changing the user name, password, and server name to smtp.sendgrid.net. The ports supported are 25 for TLS/plain connections, 465 for SSL connections, and 587 for TLS/plain connections. We recommend to use port 587 to avoid rate limits set by some hosting companies.

Frameworks

If you are sending email from your application written using a framework, please select it below

Ruby on Rails

Symfony

Cake PHP

CodeIgniter

Django

Node.js

Languages

If you are sending email from your application, please select the language your application is written in

PHP

Ruby

Python

Java

C# .NET

Perl

Node.js

Mail & Web Servers

If you want to use the existing redundancy and scalability of your existing mail or web server, please select the server technology you are using

Postfix

Sendmail

Qmail

Exim

SSMTP

Open Source Applications

If you want to easily integrate our service with an open source application, please select it below

Wordpress

Joomla

Magento

PHPBB

Drupal

Mail Clients

If you want to easily integrate our service with a Mail Client, please select it below

Thunderbird

Mail

GMail

Outlook

Write Your Own Library

If you want to develop a library from scratch or prefer to use HTTP to send email please refer to our web API to send email.

Receive Email From Your Application

SendGrid can parse the email bodies and attachments from incoming emails and post them to your web application. Application examples include posting blog articles via email or processing email replies. For details on how to integrate your application to start receiving emails please refer to our Parse API. The following illustrates how the Parse API works.