- Security
Lock It Down! Welcome, 2 Factor Authentication
Hour 0: Well, I never thought this would happen, but my password was leaked. My account has been compromised, and my services have been interrupted. This is bad.
Marco Salazar
• 4 min read
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- For devs
How To Set Up Message Queues For Asynchronous Sending
Message queuing is an interesting tool that can help us create scalable websites or web services. A message queue allows applications to communicate asynchronously by sending messages to each other.
Mailgun Team
• 4 min read
- Best Practices
FML, Every Email I Send Goes To The Gmail Promotions Tab
The Gmail promotions tab. Some people love it, some people hate it, some people love to hate it. For many of us email marketers, when we find our witty subject lines and email campaigns filed under the Gmail promotions tab instead of the primary inbox, we say something along the lines of:
Chris Farmer
• 7 min read
- Best Practices
FML, I’m On An Email Blocklist. What Do I Do?
The holidays already come with mounting anxiety. Will I find a Nintendo Switch for the kids? Your mom’s going to stay here for how long?! Will there be eggnog? So when you find either your domain name or IP address on an email blocklist, it’s easy to overreact.
Travis Walton
• 5 min read
- Email DIY
Introducing The 5 User Roles: Keep The Riffraff Out Of Your Mailgun Account
You probably don’t want this guy touching your API keys. And you definitely don’t want this guy adjusting the settings of your domains.
Josh Odom
• 4 min read
- Email DIY
Mailgun For Non-Devs: Leveraging An Email Marketing Platform
This guest post comes from Ongage, a front-end email marketing platform that integrates nicely with ESPs like Mailgun and empowers you to do some seriously advanced things with your marketing emails.
Mailgun Team
• 5 min read
- Best Practices
Black Friday & Cyber Monday: 5 Tips To Stand Out In A Crowded Inbox During The Holidays
Stores are busting out wreaths and giant bows. Santas are sitting in shopping malls. There’s a faint chill in the air (or at least that’s what we’re told; we’re based in Texas).
Nicole Jacobson
• 8 min read
- What's new
How Quickly Can Mailgun Process My Messages? Introducing The Rapid Fire Delivery SLA
This was originally published on November 2, 2017. For big senders, getting a lot of messages out the door in a very short period of time can be especially challenging. Once your message is set up, you want it to reach inboxes in seconds, not hours, and we want to make sure that happens.
Josh Odom
• 6 min read
- For devs
How And Why We Adopted Service Mesh With Vulcand And Nginx
Over the past year, service mesh has officially become a thing, thanks to the launch of Istio (a joint collaboration between IBM, Google, and Lyft) and the adoption of linkerd by big companies like PayPal and Ticketmaster. So what is a service mesh, why have we adopted it at Mailgun, and how are we using it to deliver our software?
Derrick Wippler
• 6 min read
- Email DIY
Getting Started With Mailgun: An Introduction To The Platform
When you first get started with any new software, it can take some time to fully understand the feature set and master the platform-specific tools available. This can be really frustrating.
Chris Hammer
• 4 min read
- Email DIY
A Practical Guide To Using Mailgun’s Webhooks
This guest post comes from Opeyemi Obembe, a Mailgun customer based in Nigeria. When we saw Opeyemi’s tutorial on how to set up webhooks, we knew we needed to share it with you. Not only is Opeyemi’s methodology rock solid, but he’s the type of developer we love supporting.
Mailgun Team
• 8 min read
- Email DIY
Tags Explained: Gaining Useful Insights From Email Segmentation
Companies often use the same sending domains or IP addresses to send various types of messages. While this is a really convenient way to send messages, it can be hard to figure out how each discrete message type is performing. This is where the idea of tagging or categorizing your emails comes into play.
Josh Odom
• 5 min read
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