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+name: mailtrap-email-integration
+description: Guides agents through integrating transactional email sending via Mailtrap's Email API, including sandbox testing, domain verification, and API authentication. Use when implementing email-sending features, debugging delivery issues, or setting up safe dev/staging email testing.
+origin: ECC
+---
+
+# Mailtrap Email Integration
+
+Patterns for adding transactional email sending to an application using Mailtrap's Email API and Sandbox, covering authentication, environment separation, and common delivery pitfalls.
+
+## When to Activate
+
+- Implementing a "send email" feature (signup confirmation, password reset, notifications, receipts)
+- Debugging why emails aren't arriving in dev/staging
+- Setting up a project's first email-sending integration
+- Reviewing code that calls an email API directly without sandbox separation
+
+## Core Concepts
+
+**Sandbox vs. Production separation.** Mailtrap provides a Sandbox API that captures emails without delivering them, used for dev/staging so test emails never reach real inboxes. Production sending uses a separate, verified-domain endpoint. Never point a dev environment at the production sending endpoint.
+
+**Authentication.** Requests use a Bearer token in the `Authorization` header. Tokens are scoped per project; sandbox and production typically use different tokens.
+
+**Domain verification.** Production sending requires verifying a sending domain via DNS records (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) before Mailtrap will deliver to real recipients. Skipping this causes silent delivery failures or spam-folder placement.
+
+## Code Examples
+
+```typescript
+// Sending via Mailtrap's Email API (production)
+async function sendEmail(to: string, subject: string, html: string) {
+  const response = await fetch("https://send.api.mailtrap.io/api/send", {
+    method: "POST",
+    headers: {
+      "Authorization": `Bearer ${process.env.MAILTRAP_API_TOKEN}`,
+      "Content-Type": "application/json",
+    },
+    body: JSON.stringify({
+      from: { email: "no-reply@yourverifieddomain.com", name: "Your App" },
+      to: [{ email: to }],
+      subject,
+      html,
+    }),
+  });
+
+  if (!response.ok) {
+    throw new Error(`Email send failed: ${response.status}`);
+  }
+  return response.json();
+}
+```
+
+```typescript
+// Same call, routed to Sandbox in non-production environments
+const MAILTRAP_ENDPOINT = process.env.NODE_ENV === "production"
+  ? "https://send.api.mailtrap.io/api/send"
+  : `https://sandbox.api.mailtrap.io/api/send/${process.env.MAILTRAP_INBOX_ID}`;
+```
+
+## Anti-Patterns
+
+| Anti-Pattern | Why It's a Problem | Instead |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| Using the production sending endpoint in dev/test | Real test emails reach real inboxes, risking spam complaints and leaked test data | Route non-production environments to the Sandbox endpoint |
+| Hardcoding API tokens in source | Credential leak risk if committed to version control | Load tokens from environment variables / secrets manager |
+| Sending before domain verification completes | Emails silently fail or land in spam | Verify SPF/DKIM/DMARC records before enabling production sending |
+| No retry/error handling on send failures | Silent notification failures (e.g., user never gets password reset email) | Check response status, log failures, surface actionable errors |
+
+## Best Practices
+
+- Keep sandbox and production tokens in separate environment variables, never share one token across environments
+- Verify sending domain DNS records before any production launch involving email
+- Log delivery failures with enough context to debug (recipient, template, timestamp, response code)
+- Treat email sending as a fallible network call: wrap in try/catch, never assume success
+
+## Related Skills
+
+`api-and-interface-design`, `security-and-hardening`, `ci-cd-and-automation`