Email Best Practices

Keeping your site registration and password reset emails out of SPAM folders is an ongoing battle, one that I feel like I'm always losing. 

Let's use this time to talk about best practices for configuring your email to ensure that email works as it should and emails sent by your website get to the intended target. 

1. Email processing tools like Sendgrid and their competitors. What are the options available? How to choose? Differences?
   1. Sendgrid - https://sendgrid.com/
   2. Mailwarm - https://www.mailwarm.com/
   3. Mailgun - https://www.mailgun.com/
2. CNAME, SPF, DKIM, MX records and more...
   1. Can we leave this session with a basic understanding of how each of these terms differs from the other.

I've been learning about these things recently and will share what I've learned, but I'm hoping others with experience will come to this discussion and help share their knowledge.

For the most part, I don't expect this session to be Backdrop specific. Most of what we discuss will apply to other CMSs as well.

If you have questions you would like to see us address, please post a comment here (must be logged in).