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bight/packetboat
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A service-agnostic vehicle for WordPress transactional email.

1.0.1(9y ago)043[2 issues](https://github.com/bight/packetboat/issues)MITPHPPHP >=5.6

Since Dec 22Pushed 9y ago1 watchersCompare

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Packet Boat
===========

[](#packet-boat)

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/7e8678b9d0c5fc43c4bb295c0234fba38550c5f19e002693ef4fee8eaf139833/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f62696768742f7061636b6574626f61742e7376673f6272616e63683d646576656c6f706d656e74)](https://travis-ci.org/bight/packetboat)[![Coverage Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/250abba6571c9175324ae9697cf06616dbaa434a3bfefc8c60576e9930bd2305/68747470733a2f2f636f6465636f762e696f2f67682f62696768742f7061636b6574626f61742f6272616e63682f646576656c6f706d656e742f67726170682f62616467652e737667)](https://codecov.io/gh/bight/packetboat)[![Packagist](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/dc6c2faeb93a13b4426dd7a01470c59bdc188d860f6b9448f3549988e5e590d0/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7061636b61676973742f762f62696768742f7061636b6574626f61742e737667)](https://packagist.org/packages/bight/packetboat)

A service-agnostic vehicle for WordPress transactional email.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP >= 5.6
- WordPress >= 4.7

And one of the following services:

- [Postmark](https://postmarkapp.com)
- [Mailgun](https://mailgun.com) (coming soon)
- [Sendgrid](https://sendgrid.com) (coming soon)

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

If you're using [Bedrock](https://roots.io/bedrock):

`composer require bight/packetboat`

If you're not:

```
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/bight/packetboat.git wp-content/plugins/packetboat
cd /wp-content/plugins/packetboat
rm -rf .git
composer install --no-dev

```

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

Activate the plugin (or network activate it if you're on WordPress Multisite). Then complete the service-specific configuration procedure.

### Postmark

[](#postmark)

Add the following lines to `wp-config.php`:

```
// Postmark server API token, see: http://developer.postmarkapp.com/developer-api-overview.html#authentication
define('POSTMARK_SERVER_TOKEN', 'your-postmark-server-token');

// Postmark verified sender signature, see: https://account.postmarkapp.com/signatures
define('POSTMARK_SENDER_SIGNATURE', 'foo@bar.com');

```

### Mailgun

[](#mailgun)

TK.

### Sendgrid

[](#sendgrid)

TK.

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community4

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

Maturing project, gaining track record

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

3430d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/43a3ec56fb89f487d5de34ed0fbca0b122c7e6d3a6e416d6458a1266bcb00f95?d=identicon)[greatislander](/maintainers/greatislander)

---

Tags

mailgunpostmarksendgridwordpress

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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