Email Notification Webhook or alternative to SMTP

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The discussion revolves around sending Discourse email notifications via an API instead of SMTP. NotAnonymous is looking for an alternative method and asks three questions: if there’s a built-in way to send emails via API, if notifications can be sent via webhook, and if a plugin can override normal email sends. pfaffman responds that there’s no built-in way to send emails via API and no direct way to send notifications via webhook. However, creating a plugin to override normal email sends is possible, but it may require significant time and could be prone to breaking.

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I’m wanting to change our Discourse email notifications to be sent via a service that only supports sending via an API rather than a standard SMTP relay. I’m not finding any current settings or plugins or obvious way of doing this. The closest I’ve seen is maybe using a webhook to send info to the api or an interstitial api. Questions:

  • Is there already a way to send email via api instead of smtp that I’m just not finding?
  • If not, is there a way to get any notifications that would normally trigger an email via web hook?
  • If not, is there a way via a plugin to override normal email sends and do a custom thing instead?

Any answers/pointers on the above would be much appreciated!

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No.

I don’t think so.

Sure, anything is possible. I think it’ll take a bunch of time and be prone be being broken, I think.