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When you develop your product, for example a SaaS, emails are important for several reasons. Here are two of them:

• It’s very likely that you’re going to collet your users’ emails addresses (when they register on your website, for a waiting list, or for a newsletter)

• It’s very likely that you’re going to use marketing emails (if not, you should!)

Again: emails are important.

You don’t want to have issue collecting email addresses, and you don’t want to mess your marketing emails.

Some tools exist to help you with that. Today, we’re going to see 3 useful services to manage emails.

The Best Emailing Tools

Plunk

Plunk is an affordable, developer-friendly email platform that brings together marketing, transactional and broadcast emails into one single, complete solution

The main advantage of Plunk: it gathers everything you need to send emails to your users, and what is important to us, it is developer-friendly, with easy-to-use APIs.

Mailtester Ninja

Mailtester Ninja is… a mail tester. The tool provides APIs, not only to test the validity of an email (which we can easily do on our front/back end), but also to make sure the email domain actually exists (and therefore, that your user will effectively receive your emails). It can also tell you if an email address is a disposable one or not.

Maskthis.email

The last tool we’re going to see here might not be as useful as the others, yet it can have its utility.

Maskthis.email is a service that creates disposable emails for you, that you can use to preserve your own email address anonymity (emails sent to the disposable address will be transferred to yours). What’s interesting for us, is that emails can also be delivered to a webhook as a JSON object (than you can therefore connect to anything - a Telegram bot for example).

Blog Article of The Week

In this week article, we’re talking about APIs.

I’ve listed for you 10 free APIs you can use for your next project.

The article is to be found here!

That’s it for today’s newsletter.

Have a great week building your own tool! And don’t forget you can add it on Indie Dev Tools for free!

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