Email for apps built with Chef

Keep your customersin the loop.

MaxMail is the email behind every Chef project. Chef sets it up for you: receipts and sign-in codes go out from your own domain, and a support address is ready for customers to write back. Prefer your own SendGrid account? Switch to it from one settings page.

Plan your project email

The tools behind MaxNova

Sign in to MaxMail

Use your MaxNova account to see your membership and MaxMail access.

MaxAuth handles sign-in for your MaxNova account. You can review membership options after signing in.
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How it works with Chef

No email setup on your to-do list.

  1. Build with Chef

    Describe what you need. Chef builds the app and MaxVolts hosts it.

  2. Chef sets up email

    Chef connects your domain, publishes the sending records, and opens a support address for customers.

  3. Your app sends and listens

    Receipts and sign-in codes go out from your domain. Customer replies come back to your support inbox.

One connected business

Make email part of your customer journey.

MaxNova helps you plan the journey. Chef builds the software, MaxVolts runs it, and MaxMail sends and receives its email. Custom-domain sending requires an active MaxNova Membership and paid hosting for a Chef project you own.

For configured projects

Email

Send the messages a customer expects after taking an action. Track requests, retries, and delivery status through the project API.

  • Transactional delivery
  • Durable message queue
  • Suppression management
  • Delivery event history

Set up automatically

Support email

Chef gives your project a support address on its own domain. Customer emails and your replies stay together, so nothing gets lost.

  • support@ on your own domain
  • Replies kept in one thread
  • Answer from the same address
  • No inbox to configure

Future offering

SMS

Text messaging is on the roadmap. SMS is not included in the current offer, and no launch date is promised.

Planned

For your technical team

A record of what happened.

Submit email through one project API. A durable queue and event history help you investigate messages that need attention.

  • One project credential
  • Idempotent message requests
  • Automatic retries
  • Provider-independent API

A useful extra from MaxNova

Useful extras. A small annual price.

MaxNova Membership · $20/year. Includes MaxPoints, MaxMail access, and MaxDomains member pricing.

MaxMail is transactional project email with a support address Chef sets up for you. Connect a domain purchased through MaxDomains or verified in Chef and publish the DNS record MaxMail gives you, or add your own SendGrid key instead. An active paid Chef project is required. Domain registration and hosting are billed separately, as is SendGrid usage if you use it. A full personal inbox, unlimited messages and SMS are not included.

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