September 2018 Summaries

You can send transactional emails with the Laravel PHP framework using two methods: by setting up the Postmark adapter and sending email via SMTP. To set up the Postmark adapter, you need to create a Postmark developer account, sign up for a free trial, and then configure your Laravel project by installing the `coconutcraig/laravel-postmark` package, adding your Postmark token to the `config/services.php` file, and updating the `MAIL_MAILER` setting in the `.env` file. Alternatively, you can send email via SMTP using the Postmark SMTP tab, which requires logging into your Postmark dashboard, configuring the SMTP settings in the `config/mail.php` file, and setting up a sender signature. Both methods allow you to send transactional emails through your Postmark account.

This morning, Postmark experienced a delay in sending outbound emails to all customers starting at 5:15am. The issue was resolved by 8:43am when the queues were cleared and sending resumed normally. Postmark takes issues like this seriously and is committed to delivering on its core features of availability and speed. To prevent similar delays, Postmark plans to review alerting workflows, address the root cause of delays, automate capacity better, and improve its status page to provide clearer information about email queueing and processing times.