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MailChannels Email API now has official SDKs for Node.js, Python, and PHP
·2 min read
Today we’re releasing three official SDKs for MailChannels Email API, a new developer dashboard, and a unified docs site. If you build multi-tenant SaaS, AI agents, or any platform where …
Self-Driving Software: What OAuth Can’t Do for AI Agents | Dick Hardt, Hello
·8 min read
Ken sat down with Dick Hardt for the first episode of Season 3 of the MailChannels podcast. Hardt is the person behind Identity 2.0, an author of OAuth, and he …
The email service you forget exists: engineering for tail risk
·15 min read
Almost every email delivery service looks good on a quiet Tuesday. Your application connects, the API returns 202 Accepted, Gmail accepts the message, the dashboard stays green, and the password …
Building a safe multi-tenant email delivery pipeline with the MailChannels Email API
·14 min read
Email delivery is straightforward when one trusted application sends one predictable stream of transactional messages. It becomes a very different engineering problem when your customers, plugins, or AI agents can …
The 47-day certificate is coming: what hosting providers need to build now
·15 min read
Publicly trusted TLS certificates are on a fixed schedule from a maximum lifetime of 398 days down to 200 days, then 100 days, and finally 47 days in March 2029. …
When Direct Connect goes dark: how our edge network rode out the July 24 AWS us-west-2 outage
·8 min read
On July 24, 2026, between 10:55 and 12:12 UTC (3:55 to 5:12 AM Pacific), AWS experienced a networking failure in its us-west-2 (Oregon) region that broke routing between the region …
Postmortem: The July 21 TLS Certificate Incident on api.mailchannels.net
·5 min read
July 21, 2026 On the morning of July 21, 2026, we rotated the TLS certificate on api.mailchannels.net, the endpoint that receives every message sent through our Email API. Within minutes, …
Multi-tenant email sending is the operation of sending email for multiple independent customers, users, workspaces, or software agents through a common platform. Because the platform does not fully control every …
A multi-tenant SaaS platform has a different email problem from an organization that sends only its own messages. The platform must govern customers, users, workflows, or agents whose behaviour it …
Cloudflare and Stripe Have an Abuse Problem. The Email Industry Should Be Paying Attention.
·6 min read
Last month, Cloudflare and Stripe announced something new. They built a way for AI agents to set up internet services on their own. An agent can now register a domain, …