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Boostack use Mailgun to send transactional emails. Mailgun's API is easy to work with, and their UI has excellent logging that makes it easy to figure out whether an email was actually sent.

Once you sign up and get a Mailgun API key, the first thing Mailgun shows you is how to send a test email to yourself from the command line.

Depending on the size of the applications you plan to build, I recommend unchecking the payment info box and just choosing the free plan, you can always change your plan later on and upgrade if you need to.

You can add your own domain if you have your own, but for the test purpose, we will be using the free sandbox domain that comes with Mailgun.

You will need to add the email address you plan to be sending email to this list, and keep an eye out for a verification email in your inbox.

It is easier to store your API key in a variable, much like how your domain name is. it will be a long string of numbers and letters. Your domain name will be something like “sandbox992sdgsf.mailgun.org”

Make sure you only copy from sandbox your domain name & your API key.