# Connecting email services
EmailJS is not sending the emails directly. Instead, it allows users to connect their email services, through which the emails will be sent. We support a long list of email services, both personal services and transactional email services.
Personal email services allow connecting personal email providers that offer basic email functionality – an email address and an inbox. These include providers like Gmail, Fastmail, Outlook 365, etc'. Personal email services are useful in EmailJS when you need to send a small number of emails to yourself, or need to send emails to other people from your personal email account. Note, your personal email account could be blocked if you go over the daily limit of the email provider, and your email address could be flagged as spam if you send unsolicited emails to multiple recipients. Our general recommendation is to use personal email services only for development purposes or for very low volume usage.
Transactional email services allow connecting dedicated transactional email providers that were designed to send out a large number of emails to a large number of recipients. These providers are usually more robust, can handle higher volumes, and provide a better email reputation (which means fewer chances your emails will end up in the spam folder). We strongly recommend you use one of these providers for your production environment.
To connect an email service:
- Open Email Services (opens new window) page in EmailJS dashboard
- Choose from the list of supported services and click on the service
- Fill out the service details
- Test the email service and make sure you receive the test email
That's it! You have now connected your EmailJS account to at least 1 email service, and we can now move on to creating the email templates.