You can certainly use SMTP in place of an email provider like SES or Resend, but I don’t generally recommend it if you’re concerned about deliverability and metrics.

I agree. Bad for SEO as well. I’d say that Discord chose us more than we chose it. That’s where our initial users wanted to talk with us.

There’s a link above the body, but I just added one to the body as well. Thanks for the note!

Mainly that it’s self-hostable which makes it better for data security, lowers cost, and makes it extensible.

Hi apologies, could you clarify for me? Difference with reference to what?