beam-community/bamboo

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1959 stars · 340 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Bamboo is an adapter-based email library for Elixir that separates email creation from delivery, with built-in adapters for services like Mailgun, SendGrid, Mandrill, SparkPost, and Postmark. It integrates with Phoenix, supports background delivery via deliver_later, and provides helpers for easy unit and integration testing of emails.

Use cases

• send transactional emails from an Elixir or Phoenix app
• test email sending in Elixir without actually delivering mail
• switch email providers like SendGrid or Mailgun via adapters
• send emails in the background without blocking requests
• preview sent emails during development
• render emails using Phoenix views and layouts

When to choose

• you're building an Elixir or Phoenix application that needs to send email
• you want easily testable email code with assertions against email fields
• you need adapter-based support for multiple mail delivery services
• you want background email delivery out of the box

When to avoid

• your project is not on the Elixir/Erlang BEAM ecosystem
• you need an email service with no existing Bamboo adapter and don't want to write one
• you only need raw SMTP sending with no abstraction

Facets

library · maturity stable

email testing http-client middleware email web-development backend developer-tools testing elixir jvm elixir-email phoenix mailgun sendgrid mandrill postmark sparkpost adapter-based deliver-later email-testing web-server

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