Building tooling for transactional emails takes time and in the early days of building a product you’re still figuring out what to build. Google Groups can be used as a psuedo transactional email tool to fake it til you make it.
How to send email as a Google Group from Gmail:
- In Google Groups, create a new email group with `Who can post` set to ‘Anyone on the web’ (e.g.
info@mydomain.com) - In Gmail, go to Settings -> Accounts
- In the ‘Send email as’ section, click ‘Add another email address’
- In the prompt, add the group email address
- Confirm the request by clicking the verification email sent to the group
- To send an email as the group, select it from the drop down in the `From` field of the email composer
Now you can send emails as if you were info@ or support@ right from your Gmail account without setting up any other tools.
If you want messages sent to also appear in the group so other people can see it, compose the message in Google Groups by clicking ‘New conversation’ and select the group’s address in the ‘From’ field. Slightly less convenient than sending from within Gmail, but with the added benefit that your teammates have full visibility.