Send Mail Through Your Smtp Server. SendGrid's SMTP API allows developers to specify custom handling. Check out this in-depth guide showing how to do it with different services.
What is an SMTP Relay Server? The problem is that the return address is replaced with my gmail address. If your SMTP server uses an IP whitelist to only allow certain IP addresses to connect you'll need to whitelist Customer.io IP addresses prior to configuring custom SMTP in the application.
Check out this in-depth guide showing how to do it with different services.
However, you can optionally tell Customer.io to send mail through any other SMTP server.
Running a local mail server can sometimes be a pain. This is generally configurable in your app framework, like rails, django, etc. This section shows you settings for some popular mail services you can use as external SMTP servers.