Mailgun Overview
What is Mailgun?
Mailgun is an email automation service built for developers. It offers a complete cloud-based email service for sending, receiving and tracking emails sent through your websites and applications. Mailgun's intelligent inbound routing and storage enables you to know exactly where your emails are ending up.
Built for developers, Mailgun is a set of APIs to integrate email. It supports all of the most popular languages including PHP, Python, Ruby, C# and Java. Tracking & analytics features, including A/B testing enable you to track all emails and maximize their chances of avoiding spam filters and reaching inboxes.
Mailgun Overview
Pricing
Pricing options
0-10,000 emails: Free
Next 500,000 emails: $0.00050 /email
Next 1,000,000 emails: $0.00035 /email
Next 5,000,000 emails: $0.00010 /email
Any additional emails: $0.00010 /email
Mailgun Features
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Mailgun Reviews
Mailgun Reviews
Bare-bones but super reliable and easy to use.
I use several different email service providers, each for a different reason. I use Mailgun almost exclusively for inbound mail processing. The inbound processing also offers a preliminary spam filter so that at least most of the spam isn't sent further down my process chain.
It's super easy to set up inbound routes using specific strings or wildcard matches that will accept mail and forward to multiple different recipients. These recipients can be either proper email addresses or webhook endpoints.
I often use the address forwarders in combination with the SMTP outbound service to build a system where Gmail users can use their free gmail.com account to receive and send emails from their small business domain without having to sign up for and configure a proper G Suite account.
I use the webhook forwarders in combination with Zapier and Integromat to receive any emails that need to be processed and automatically acted on. Mailgun normalizes all the different types of email and attachment encodings and packages the message data into an easy-to-parse JSON package that makes it super easy for me to grab what I need and reliably act on the normalized data.
Incredible Deliverability, Clean Platform, Success with MailGun!
Super pleasant, great chat support, fast email support replies, always quick to help and communicate.
Feature rich, strong support team
Overall, a very good experience. Mailgun was definitely a very competent software and tool for dealing with the complex nature of sending out mass marketing emails successfully.
Good, but crap customer service
They suddenly and mistakely suspended one of my domain and took ages to get it back. They told me that their back-end service sometomes does it by mistake... not sure why it took them days and days to reply, and still not resolved after almost a week... (I was using a mid-range package, so not the the free tier.)
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Bare-bones but super reliable and easy to use.
Pros
Inbound mail processing with spam filter
Free tier offers great sending limit
SMTP and API integration for outbound messaging
Cons
This product doesn't offer any sort of backend mail building or sending functionality. It's only an engine for sending messages. This means you'll have to build your messages somewhere else and integrate them into your sending code.
Incredible Deliverability, Clean Platform, Success with MailGun!
Super pleasant, great chat support, fast email support replies, always quick to help and communicate.
Pros
Clean UXI for navigating the system, simple set up, clear dashboard to find issues quickly and navigate around the site. Ability to clean database lists to minimize bounce. However, the BEST part is they are free up to 10,000 emails a month, which is a ton! So to give the full custom power of connecting your domain and sending out, that's a huge value. I will get over that limit and upgrade soon, but that is an incredible way to start a relationship. Almost a year of free service to use their system versus my server.
Cons
I actually have not found anything that I do not like. Many will complain about high bounce rates or going into spam. I find that issue arrises on multiple factors outside of mailgun control, such as the receiving server, and the mail habits of the person opening it, do they get a bunch of spammy mail already? And was the mail piece written in a poor nature, this increases spam folder direction, however, they do have dedicated IP service for those wanting to mitigate one area of cause for spam direction. Again, never been my experience.
Feature rich, strong support team
Overall, a very good experience. Mailgun was definitely a very competent software and tool for dealing with the complex nature of sending out mass marketing emails successfully.
Pros
In my previous work as Director of Operations of a medical software company, I worked with the development team to implement and utilize the software. A lot of the technical side of things was over my head, but the mailgun support team was top notch and integral to us executing on a successful deployment of automated emails at a scale far greater than anything we had tackled before.
Cons
Most of my gripes are simply due to lack of understanding - a lot of the software was quite technical in nature and over my head. But I can't really speak in detail to any pros/cons of directly interacting with the software or its user interface.
Good, but crap customer service
They suddenly and mistakely suspended one of my domain and took ages to get it back. They told me that their back-end service sometomes does it by mistake... not sure why it took them days and days to reply, and still not resolved after almost a week... (I was using a mid-range package, so not the the free tier.)
Pros
Easy to setup and use in WHM
Clean and userful dashboard
Cons
Customer service is slow and useless
More expensive compare to others
Mailgun is awesome
Pros
Easy to deploy, they even have an iOS SDK. I use it to deliver automated emails for my app (welcome emails, password reset, announcements, etc).
Cons
There are currently no cons for me with this software.
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Mailgun Pricing
Mailgun Pricing
0-10,000 emails: Free
Next 500,000 emails: $0.00050 /email
Next 1,000,000 emails: $0.00035 /email
Next 5,000,000 emails: $0.00010 /email
Any additional emails: $0.00010 /email
0-10,000 emails: Free
Next 500,000 emails: $0.00050 /email
Next 1,000,000 emails: $0.00035 /email
Next 5,000,000 emails: $0.00010 /email
Any additional emails: $0.00010 /email
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Mailgun Features
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Additional information for Mailgun
Additional information for Mailgun
Key features of Mailgun
- A/B testing using tags
- Advanced message handling
- Batch sending
- Bounce handling
- Client & device tracking data
- Complaint handling
- Detailed email & event tracking
- Detailed logs & analytics reporting
- Dynamic queueing
- Event webhooks & API
- Geo & link performance
- IP allocation management
- Intelligent routing/forwarding
- Personalization
- Scheduled delivery
- Simple API's
- Spam filtering
- Template variables
- Unsubscribe handling
- White-labeled domains
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Mailgun FAQs
Mailgun FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Mailgun.
Q. What type of pricing plans does Mailgun offer?
Mailgun offers the following pricing plans:
Pricing model: Free
Free Trial: Not Available
0-10,000 emails: Free Next 500,000 emails: $0.00050 /email Next 1,000,000 emails: $0.00035 /email Next 5,000,000 emails: $0.00010 /email Any additional emails: $0.00010 /email
Q. What are the main features of Mailgun?
Mailgun offers the following features:
- A/B testing using tags
- Advanced message handling
- Batch sending
- Bounce handling
- Client & device tracking data
- Complaint handling
- Detailed email & event tracking
- Detailed logs & analytics reporting
- Dynamic queueing
- Event webhooks & API
- Geo & link performance
- IP allocation management
- Intelligent routing/forwarding
- Personalization
- Scheduled delivery
- Simple API's
- Spam filtering
- Template variables
- Unsubscribe handling
- White-labeled domains
Q. Who are the typical users of Mailgun?
Mailgun has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Public Administrations, Mid Size Business
Q. What languages does Mailgun support?
Mailgun supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Mailgun support mobile devices?
We do not have any information about what devices Mailgun supports
Q. What other apps does Mailgun integrate with?
Mailgun integrates with the following applications:
Akita, ChargeOver, Clevertim, Imagine Mobile Church, ProjectManager.com, Rejoiner, Salesmachine, Stamplay, Xplenty, Zapier
Q. What level of support does Mailgun offer?
Mailgun offers the following support options:
FAQs, Knowledge Base, Online Support
I use several different email service providers, each for a different reason. I use Mailgun almost exclusively for inbound mail processing. The inbound processing also offers a preliminary spam filter so that at least most of the spam isn't sent further down my process chain.
It's super easy to set up inbound routes using specific strings or wildcard matches that will accept mail and forward to multiple different recipients. These recipients can be either proper email addresses or webhook endpoints.
I often use the address forwarders in combination with the SMTP outbound service to build a system where Gmail users can use their free gmail.com account to receive and send emails from their small business domain without having to sign up for and configure a proper G Suite account.
I use the webhook forwarders in combination with Zapier and Integromat to receive any emails that need to be processed and automatically acted on. Mailgun normalizes all the different types of email and attachment encodings and packages the message data into an easy-to-parse JSON package that makes it super easy for me to grab what I need and reliably act on the normalized data.