What’s your preferred way of sending transactional email from WordPress?

Hi Indie Hackers,

I’m wondering how you manage transactional email for your WordPress site. Transactional email is the email that your site sends automatically to your users, such as password resets, order confirmations, newsletters, etc.

Transactional email is crucial for your user experience, retention, and loyalty. You want to make sure that your emails are delivered fast, reliably, and securely, and that they look professional and consistent with your brand.

There are many options for sending transactional email from WordPress, such as using the default PHP mail() function, setting up your own SMTP server, or using a third-party plugin or service.

What do you use and why? What are the advantages and disadvantages of your choice? How do you measure and optimize your email performance?

I’d love to hear your opinions and experiences on this topic.

By the way, I recently stumbled upon this article that compares the top WordPress plugins for transactional email service: https://mailazy.com/blog/top-wordpress-plugin-for-transactional-email-service/

It covers the features, pricing, and performance of each plugin, and how to set them up with your WordPress site. I found it very useful and informative.

If you’re interested in improving your transactional email deliverability, engagement, and reputation, you should check it out and let me know what you think. 😊