Mailpiece with Mailgun
Send your newsletter through Mailgun's SMTP servers.
Mailpiece sends every issue through Mailgun's SMTP with a domain's SMTP login.
With Mailpiece
What you get
- Issues, test issues, welcome emails and confirmations
- US and EU regions: use the host of the region your domain lives in
- Each newsletter's own from name, from address and reply-to
- The app's sign-in mail through the same Mailgun domain
- Prefer its API? Send through a relay.
Set up Mailgun
Verify your sending domain and note its region. Under Sending › Domain Settings › SMTP Credentials, add a login: an address on that domain, with its own password (not your API key).
Set the outgoing mail
On Settings › Outgoing mail, set up an SMTP server: the Server is smtp.mailgun.org for a US domain or smtp.eu.mailgun.org for EU, the Port 587, and the Username and Password your SMTP login, such as [email protected]. Port 587 uses STARTTLS; port 465 is TLS from the first byte.
# Or from the CLI; smtp.eu.mailgun.org for EU
mailpiece settings sending smtp update --address smtp.mailgun.org --port 587 \
--username [email protected] --password ...
# The app's sign-in mail, optional: the same values
SMTP_ADDRESS=smtp.mailgun.org
[email protected]
SMTP_PASSWORD=...Send a test issue
Set a from address on your verified domain in Settings › Sending and send a test issue from any post. If it does not arrive, check the domain's sending logs in Mailgun.
Set it up this afternoon
Install Mailpiece on a server, connect Mailgun, and send your next issue.