MailChannels Email API now has official SDKs for Node.js, Python, and PHP
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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
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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 …
When Direct Connect goes dark: how our edge network rode out the July 24 AWS us-west-2 outage
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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
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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.
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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, …
MailChannels now has a native integration in the Zapier app directory. Connect it to thousands of other apps and trigger transactional emails automatically, without writing any code. If you’re already …
Why Email Is the Most Dangerous Output Channel for AI Agents
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There is a version of this post that chases a news cycle. This is not that version. Instead, this is for the developers and platform engineers who are building systems …
Ethical hosting is more profitable than cheap hosting
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For years, hosting providers have been treated like utilities. Power on. Bits flow. Problems belong to someone else. That model is breaking down. In a recent MailChannels podcast conversation, infrastructure …