Moved back to good old PHPMailer and SMTP

I was wondering why my contact forms weren't working anymore. Turns out sendgrid updated their TOS for the free accounts.

Since I don't have a valid use case for the paid tier of any Mail API service, I decided to just spin up my own SMTP server.

I was not happy with reverting my contact form ajax code from using the sendgrid api back to PHPmailer.

It's been a while but Copilot made remembering the ajax flow easier. It would've been faster if I just sent it as POST like it's 2008 all of a sudden but I needed the Javascript practice.

Contact Form is back up!


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