PHPMailer vs Mailcheap: What are the differences?

Developers describe PHPMailer 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. On the other hand, Mailcheap is detailed as "Dedicated email servers without any user/domain limits and complete API support for email administration". It is an API-first email hosting service with a user-friendly interface. It provides affordable scalability for small & large businesses using dedicated email servers without any per-user/per-domain limits. Furthermore, the powerful API enables you to meet your changing business requirements with ease.

PHPMailer and Mailcheap are primarily classified as "Email API" and "Email Services" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by PHPMailer are:

• 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

On the other hand, Mailcheap provides the following key features:

• Email hosting
• Email management
• API support

PHPMailer is an open source tool with 14.7K GitHub stars and 7.94K GitHub forks. Here's a link to PHPMailer's open source repository on GitHub.