How websites send email
Understand how a website sends an email, why it uses a service like Resend instead of your Gmail, and what decides whether an email lands in the inbox or in spam.
Why this matters
Email feels simple from the outside. You type, you press Send, it arrives. So it surprises most beginners that a website can't do the same thing with a Gmail address and a password. Some students in earlier cohorts lost a whole evening trying to make their site "log in to Gmail". It's the wrong road, and this lesson saves you from it.
Email from websites has its own rules. Big inbox providers like Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo check every incoming message and ask: who really sent this, and can I trust them? Messages that fail those checks go to spam, or vanish. A client won't care why their order emails went to spam. They'll only know their website "doesn't work".
Ten minutes of understanding now means that when you build the emails in Lessons 8.3 and 8.4, and when you fix them in 8.5, you'll know what's happening instead of guessing.
In the full lesson
- The idea in plain English
- Try it
- Quick check
- What you can do now
The step-by-step, the prompt to copy, the video and the check-it-worked list, for every lesson in all 15 modules. GHS 399 ($40), paid once by mobile money or card, yours to keep.