https://jfx.ac/tags/email/Recent content in Email on jfx's siteHugoenTue, 29 Dec 2020 17:00:00 +1000https://jfx.ac/blog/the-horrors-of-sending-transactional-email/Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:00:00 +1000https://jfx.ac/blog/the-horrors-of-sending-transactional-email/<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>I&rsquo;ve not been asked by <a href="https://postmarkapp.com">Postmark</a> to write this article. I believe that <a href="https://postmarkapp.com">Postmark</a> offers an excellent service and they deserve recognition.</p> <p>As for what transactional email is, Postmark provides a good definition on their website:</p> <blockquote> <p>Transactional email is typically a unique, high-priority message sent to a single recipient. They are often triggered by something a user does or doesn’t do.</p></blockquote> <p>This is different to marketing/bulk/broadcast email:</p> <blockquote> <p>[Broadcast email] is sent to multiple recipients at once. Things like product update announcements or terms of service notices are examples of broadcast emails.</p>