Ask HN: Is there an email service that sends email by entering/clicking a URL

3 pointsshardinator8y ago0 comments

I'd like to be able to send an email by entering a URL like someservice.com/api/send-email?email=bob@home.org&name=Robert&template=job2231 - then an email is sent based on a pre-configured template that takes in the email, name parameters.

I would have logged into someservice.com via their web UI, so ideally authentication is handled in the background - wrt to sending the email. Of course if not logged in, the email isn't sent.

Do you have any recommendations for someservice.com or an equivalent product?

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dgwight8y ago

Do you want to put all of the information in the url? This would have privacy issues and I doubt a company would have a service that does this.

Instead of getting a url posting to a url with a body will encrypt the data. This would be a pretty standard email api service.

There are many of these, but I personally use https://sendgrid.com

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