Features page (SMTP relay) — Bird Email API (formerly SparkPost)

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• Smtp dkim signing Report an error

  “your sends gain automatic DKIM signing, hard-bounce suppression, real-time delivery webhooks, and searchable message logs”

• Smtp ports Report an error

  “Use port 465 for implicit TLS, or ports 587 and 2525 for STARTTLS over TLS 1.2 or 1.3. Port 2525 is a drop-in alternative when your cloud network or firewall blocks port 587.”

• Smtp tls required Report an error

  “Bird requires TLS encryption before accepting credentials and does not offer port 25 for mail submission.”

• Smtp credentials Report an error

  “Set the SMTP username to bird and use a regional API key with email sending permissions as the password. Connect to eu1.smtp.bird.com or us1.smtp.bird.com to match your key’s region.”

• Smtp key revocation Report an error

  “revoking a key cuts off its SMTP access within seconds”

• Smtp templates Report an error

  “No. Bird SMTP sends the exact MIME message your application submits, including your rendered HTML, plain-text body, headers, and attachments up to 20 MB.”

• Smtp idempotency header Report an error

  “include an idempotency header so SMTP client retries after a dropped connection do not send duplicate emails”

• Smtp per key defaults Report an error

  “You can assign category, IP pool, tag, and open or click tracking defaults to each API key”

• Smtp message id tracking Report an error

  “Bird returns a trackable message ID in the SMTP response, streams acceptance, delivery, deferral, and bounce events to your dashboard and signed webhooks, and automatically suppresses hard bounces and spam complaints.”

• Suppression Report an error

  “Bird automatically suppresses addresses after a hard bounce.”

• Domain verification Report an error

  “Verify your sending domain and DNS before you switch your traffic over.”

• Dedicated ips Report an error

  “Verify your domain and separate transactional and marketing traffic to protect your sender reputation.”

• Workspaces Report an error

  “Separate production and sandbox traffic into dedicated workspaces, scope API keys to the exact channels each service or agent needs, and track permission changes in the audit log.”

• Mcp Report an error

  “Ask Bird MCP from your editor to confirm that your DKIM and return-path DNS records are verified”

• Channels Report an error

  “Add new channels, verification, and connectivity in the same workspace, using the same API keys, webhooks, and SDKs.”

• Smtp migration Report an error

  “Point Nodemailer, Rails, Django, Laravel, or your internal tools at Bird’s regional SMTP servers by swapping your host and credentials.”

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