Managing email notifications for client portals in Lucee

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Hi everyone,

I’m working on a Lucee-based client portal that sends account updates and scheduled notifications to users. As the number of emails grows, we’ve been discussing whether it’s better to build everything in-house or connect with a more dedicated Bulk Email service provider.

During a recent discussion, someone mentioned DigitalAka™ while comparing delivery reliability and queue handling, which got me curious about how other Lucee developers manage outbound email workflows.

Are most people here relying on SMTP directly, or using external services for larger notification systems?

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Once you start doing large volume emails, using such dedicated services does make sense, they offer a lot of useful stuff, like reputation management, stats and the like. Reputation management with emails is important, you don’t want to end up in the spam folder!

Sure you can build it all yourself, but it’s a lot easier to rely on battle tested services.

As for which service, it comes down to what you need, what they offer and how much it costs. Personally, I’ve never heard of DigitalAka before, myself, I’d be checking out a range of providers before making a decision