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Drupal 7 Mail Modules

Here are a list of useful modules for testing and sending mail.

Reroute Email

This allows you to reroute all emails to a specified email address. I use this for all dev sites so that we don’t accidentally email live users.

https://www.drupal.org/project/reroute_email

Mail System

This allows you to configure mail sending and formatting methods. Required module for several other modules

https://www.drupal.org/project/mailsystem

MIME Mail

Allows HTML formatted email as well as file Attachments.

https://www.drupal.org/project/mimemail

Mail Queue

Allows you to queue email to send out on cron instead of immediately. You can even specify wildcard or specific mail keys. 

https://www.drupal.org/project/queue_mail

Queue UI

This is not mail related but a good way of seeing which tasks are currently queued for cron. You can even inspect the tasks to see the mail details and even delete individual email tasks.

https://www.drupal.org/project/queue_ui

SMTP

For setting up Drupal to use SMTP for emails.

https://www.drupal.org/project/smtp

Sendgrid Integration

We started out using the SMTP module for connecting to Sendgrid but there are limitations going with this route. Connecting directly to the SendGrid API has less send limits. Make sure to use the dev release which includes a patch fix for the API. This module requires either the Composer Manager or X Autoload module for library installation.https://www.drupal.org/project/sendgrid_integration

Mailgun

This is our preferred mail service over Sendgrid. More generous mail usage

https://www.drupal.org/project/mailgun

Elysia Cron

Not directly related to mail but useful for configuring specific cron tasks. You can set specific module cron to run at different intervals from everything else. You can also manually trigger specific cron and queue tasks.

https://www.drupal.org/project/elysia_cron

Ultimate Cron

Alternative to Elysia Cron. Haven’t used it yet but it looks to be widely used. I might try this on the next project.

https://www.drupal.org/project/ultimate_cron

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