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Today we’re going to talk about effective transactional email design for email receipts. We’ll dissect every part of a good receipt email, so you understand its anatomy — but don’t worry, there won’t be any blood! There are many types of transactional emails: password resets, shipping notifications, dunning alerts, and more. For this post, we’re […]

If you’re building a browser-based application that needs to use a third-party API, chances are that you have encountered the ‘access-control-allow-origin’ error message: Access to XMLHttpRequest at ‘https://api.example.com/’ from origin ‘https://customerexample.com’ has been blocked by CORS policy: No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource. What Does The ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ Error Message Mean? What does […]

If you’re experiencing problems connecting to your SMTP server, then knowing how to test your SMTP relay connection will allow you to quickly diagnose the issue. By testing your SMTP connection, you can answer questions like: Is my SMTP server up and running? Why is my SMTP server not sending? Is something blocking communication with […]

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that email is one of the most data-heavy forms of modern communication.  Something as simple as sending an email collects, transfers, and interprets around 100 KB of data. Multiply that by billions, and now you see why companies may have a difficult time manipulating this data for human consumption. […]

PowerShell Core is an open-source and cross-platform Microsoft command line tool in Windows that allows programmers to write commands, or Cmdlets, that help automate administrative tasks. SocketLabs has published helpful new PowerShell script examples on GitHub and the PowerShell Gallery that will allow customers to send numerous command outputs through our Injection API. What is […]

Intro: Why Read This C# Library Tutorial? This C# Email Tutorial will show you how to enable email sending in your .NET application. Here’s a quick video intro covering exactly what we’ll discuss in this tutorial. Adding reliable email sending to your .NET application can be a daunting task. Not only do you need to […]

Most developers encounter asynchronous code for the first time when dealing with Ajax requests and Javascript. However, async has been around since the early days of programming. And within recent years, async has become almost a standard in web development. If you’re looking to use a web API to send email asynchronously, or if you’d […]

Are you building an application for the healthcare industry and need a HIPAA email API in order to send email from your application? If so, then you probably know that failing to follow some basic HIPAA email rules could cost you thousands of dollars (we’ll get to that soon) and yet it is really hard […]

What’s a webhook? Great question! Webhooks have grown in popularity over recent years. More and more services are offering developers the ability to configure webhooks to notify applications when events occur in real-time. There are many benefits to using webhooks. That’s why we’re going to give you a short crash course on webhooks. You’ll learn: […]

Have you ever tried to send mail in PHP? Do a simple search for “php send email” and you will find articles about PHPMailer, phpmail(), php mail function, mail(), and all of the SMTP settings that have to be managed just to send email. Managing all of these settings is hard enough, but what about […]