Technical guides written by people who actually run SMTP servers.
Digital sovereignty went from policy talking point to procurement requirement in 2024-2025. For email infrastructure specifically, the reasons go beyond GDPR.
PEC, S/MIME signed email, raccomandata A/R. Three different things, three different legal weights, three different costs. Here is what each actually proves.
Brevo (ex-Sendinblue), Mailjet and Aruba are the three providers most familiar to Italian businesses. Their strengths and weaknesses are very different. Here is the 2026 breakdown.
Out of the box Magento 2 uses PHP mail(), which is a deliverability disaster. Here is how to switch to a proper SMTP setup and what to expect.
I have run SendGrid migrations at a dozen companies. Three traps catch every team. Avoid them and the migration is a non-event.
AWS SES is cheap and reliable for the right use case. For the wrong one it is a multi-week deliverability project disguised as a one-line API call. Here is when to walk away.
Python smtplib is fine for scripts. Production has different requirements. Here is the wrapper code that survives real traffic.
On Black Friday, an e-commerce shop sends in 4 hours what it normally sends in a month. Order confirmations, shipping notices, abandoned cart recoveries. Here is how to survive.
Buying a cloud SMTP service from a foreign provider creates an SdI headache for Italian customers. Here is how it works, what to ask for and how Italian-resident providers simplify it.