How do you handle transactional emails in a privacy-preserving way?
For the project I'm working on I'd like to know of any other indie hacker who knows of a way to perform transactional emails in a way that's privacy-preserving. Almost like a privacy-focused SendGrid alternative. I know I could self-host but that's not a trivial matter and another thing to worry about (e.g. ensuring my emails don't end up in spam). Thanks!
What do you consider a privacy-preserving way of sending email?
No tracking, high security (and good documentation for those). Beyond GDPR compliance. I may accept ones where I can disable tracking.
Emailoctopus has the option to remove tracking.
With regards to docs, I like to see a whole suite of acronyms like SPF, DMARC, DKIM, DANE, DNSSEC, MTA-STS, SSHFP, and PGP. The more the merrier :D
Tracking by whom? You? The service provider?
High Security? Encrypted email? MFA logins? The DKIM/SPF/DMARC triumvirate?
I know Zoho and AMZ-SES both handle DKIM/SPF/DMARC. I don't know who has implemented MTA-STS yet (or how much support it has at large). I use Cloudflare to deal with DNSSEC/DANE.
I'd be surprised if you run across a mail provider that handles all of that. Not to mention, you'd have to figure out what exactly you want to accomplish. I'm satisfied with configuring the email specific frameworks, and the dns related frameworks. I differentiate between marketing and application specific messages (marketing is tracked both ways, application msgs are logged outgoing only).
Not asking you to explain. More like a guideline. I go back to my original statement, because I would have to fully qualify that answer for myself. Specifics count. I can speak to using AMZ SES, Zoho, Mailchip, and checking out a few others, but never got past D/S/D for the email provider specifically.
Just wrote Transactional email providers for indie businesses. However, I only compare costs. I am not aware of some superior privacy alternative. You need to make sure all tracking is disabled. As for encryption of emails, I just make sure they are not staying with the provider longer than necessary.
But yeah, if someone else has good pointers, I am interested too.
I use Mailjet (http://mailjet.com) for my app (https://chapter24.app). Never had any issues with email going to spam and they have an option to turn off all the invasive tracking stuff.