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Insane! #115433

Open RevealedFrom opened 1 year ago

RevealedFrom commented 1 year ago

This is insane! Why can't I just update my dotenv parameters and start running my app right away? Why is Microsoft forcing me to start a development effort just for my email that has been running fine for years (and have changed SMTP providers several times with zero code change)?

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Naveenommi-MSFT commented 1 year ago

@RevealedFrom Thanks for your feedback! We will investigate and update as appropriate.

bashan-git commented 9 months ago

@RevealedFrom could you please give more details on the ask?

RevealedFrom commented 9 months ago

For the past several decades, the API to send mail has been "standardized". All sorts of frameworks, eg Node, Java, .NET, etc provide a software interface for their applications to send mail by simply configuring a few parameters: SMTP server, port, and credentials. Applications do not have to write a lot of code to set it up. In some cases, like Microsoft .NET, it is zero lines of code - just fill in the abovesaid parameters in web.config, for example (see https://all-things-pure.blogspot.com/2009/02/sending-mail-by-configuration-in-net.html).

Therefore, I am very surprised to see Azure introducing a brand new mail interface requiring users to develop custom code and have their applications locked in to this particular proprietary interface.

I want to use Azure for my app servers and mail service, so that I can just get one invoice. But because of the lack of a standard SMTP service in Azure, I am forced to use AWS for my mail even when my app server is on Azure. AWS has a very simple mail service called SES - Simple Email Service, what else. Check it out.

If I missed something and there is indeed a simple, simple as in the first letter in SMTP, mail service in Azure, please point me to it so that I can sign up for it.