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cac/esp
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Crazy Awesome Email Service Provider Library

0.8.0(8y ago)11.8k3proprietaryPHP

Since Oct 17Pushed 8y ago2 watchersCompare

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ESP
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[](#esp)

Send emails through an Email Service Provider

###  Health Score

30

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LowBetter than 64% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity19

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 82.9% of commits — single point of failure

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 ~122 days

Recently: every ~110 days

Total

9

Last Release

3248d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1029199?v=4)[Nick de Groot](/maintainers/ngroot)[@ngroot](https://github.com/ngroot)

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Top Contributors

[![ngroot](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1029199?v=4)](https://github.com/ngroot "ngroot (29 commits)")[![edv](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/550433?v=4)](https://github.com/edv "edv (4 commits)")[![jcdejong](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1871116?v=4)](https://github.com/jcdejong "jcdejong (2 commits)")

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Tags

emailespEmail Service Provider

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