In simple English
Larasend is a self-hosted control panel for sending emails through Amazon SES or Cloudflare. It gives you a dashboard to inspect delivery logs, search past messages, and manage API keys on your own server. You also get a shared inbox for handling replies without leaving the app. It costs you the price of a small server to run, plus whatever Amazon or Cloudflare charges for email delivery. You handle updates and backups yourself.
What it is
A self-hosted transactional email platform built with Laravel, Inertia, Vue, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Docker. It provides an HTTP API, a Laravel mail transport driver, webhook ingestion, and a team inbox.
What it is good for
Laravel developers who want a unified dashboard for email logs, retries, and API keys without paying for a hosted transactional email service like Postmark or Resend.
- Keeps all email logs, templates, and API keys on your own infrastructure.
- Includes a team inbox with threading, replies, and internal notes.
- Drop-in Laravel mail transport driver for quick integration.
- Requires Docker, PostgreSQL, and Redis knowledge to deploy and maintain.
- Consumes around 1 to 2 GB of memory for the full stack.
- Cloudflare provider lacks delivery event webhooks and open tracking.
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mkdir larasend cd larasend curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/savvyagents/larasend/main/docker-compose.yml -o docker-compose.yml curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/savvyagents/larasend/main/.env.example -o .env docker compose up -d