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EmailJS vs PHPMailer: What are the differences?
Developers describe EmailJS as "Send email directly from Javascript". It allows sending email directly from Javascript, with no backend development. The developers create one or more email templates (dynamic content supported) and then trigger an email using our Javascript SDK, specifying the template, and the dynamic parameters for rendering the email. On the other hand, PHPMailer is detailed as "The classic email sending library for PHP". A full-featured email creation and transfer class for PHP. It is a class library for PHP that provides a collection of functions to build and send email messages. PHPMailer supports several ways of sending email: mail() , Sendmail, qmail & direct to SMTP servers.
EmailJS and PHPMailer belong to "Email API" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by EmailJS are:
- Support for multiple transactional/personal email providers
- Email templates editor
- Email history/resend
On the other hand, PHPMailer provides the following key features:
- Integrated SMTP support - send without a local mail server
- Send emails with multiple To, CC, BCC and Reply-to addresses
- Multipart/alternative emails for mail clients that do not read HTML email
PHPMailer is an open source tool with 13.7K GitHub stars and 7.53K GitHub forks. Here's a link to PHPMailer's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of EmailJS
Pros of PHPMailer
- Easy configuration2
- Widely used1
- Integrations for PHP based platforms1