MailGun Blacklisted

Steven_F

Has anyone else had MailGun problems? We're seeing tons of rejections.

wych

Nope, but I prefer Mandrill and switched more stuff over to them.

mike0000

Go with Amazon SES or Mandrill. I mostly use Amazon, have never had an issue.

DalekOfSkaro

Same here. MailGun's been "alright", but honestly they messed up bad when they stopped offering mailboxes.

I don't think they are blacklisted anywhere as RackSpace is supposedly keeping a close eye on their IPs.

I'd recommend that you switch to Mandrill like @wych said. They are the best in the industry. SendGrid are not too bad, but they are far behind Mandrill when it comes to user friendliness.

Steven_F

We use Mandrill for DediCube, but I thought I'd try out MailGun. To Mandrill with BoltVM!

rm_

Got some spam via MailGun just yesterday, was considering blacklisting it, but then hesitated that it might block some legitimate mail. Sooo thanks for confirming it's shit, will block it now.

Maounique

we use mandrill too, it is not flawless, some people reported problems, but very few and far between.

rds100

What, they didn't pay their racket?

comXyz

+1 Amazon SES or Mandrill

Silvenga

Steven_F said: Mandrill

I hate Mandrill from the client side. I can't whitelist domains because Mandrill sends mail under their own subdomains with a reference to the original sender.

Sender: We Love Servers <[email protected]>
 From: We Love Servers <[email protected]>
 Return-Path: <bounce-md_30010984.54786e7a.v1-7bce2a4b5d7443c099c3a7a1c179b2a8@mandrillapp.com>
 Reply-To: We Love Servers <[email protected]>

Anti-spam servers and email clients will look at the sender and not the from headers. This prevents my anti-spam from using DNSWL, DNSBL, domain history, whois lookup, etc. to decide on ham trust. This also prevents my mail client from automatically trusting images in a email (I have to accept the risk every time).

I've never had any emails from Mailgun goto spam, but I've had dozens from Mandrill.

Sender: [email protected]
 From: BoltVM <[email protected]>
 Return-Path: <[email protected]>
 Reply-To: BoltVM <[email protected]>

Doesn't Mailgun's headers look infinitely cleaner?

Steven_F

@Silvenga said:

Except that Mailgun is blacklisted by quite a few people.

Silvenga

Steven_F said: Except that Mailgun is blacklisted by quite a few people.

At least Mailgun allows people to whitelist select domains. It is impossible to whitelist Mandrill without whitelisting every user on Mandrill. That was my point, Mandrill is great for the business side, but Mailgun is better for the client.

The last email Boltvm sent me hit none of the blacklists.

fhneric

@Steven_F said:
Except that Mailgun is blacklisted by quite a few people.

I've never had an email from mailgun blacklisted. Mailgun seems easier to work with, the mandrill dashboard just seems too clustered.

Steven_F

@Silvenga said:
The last email Boltvm sent me hit none of the blacklists.

It bounces around IPs, so some are blacklisted while others are not.

@fhneric said:

It's not great, but I'm not in there often.

BharatB

Mailjet , mandrill doesnt deliver properly to yahoo ( yahoo stopped accepting ) . According to my personal experience I dont know about others.

Maounique

Mandrill delivers great to yahoo. If it wouldnt, then at least 10% of our customers wouldnt get our emails.

Dylan

Silvenga said: I hate Mandrill from the client side. I can't whitelist domains because Mandrill sends mail under their own subdomains with a reference to the original sender.

That's only if the sender chooses not to set up a tracking/return-path DNS record. The difference between Mandrill and Mailgun is that Mandrill leaves that optional while Mailgun requires it.

Both Mailgun and Mandrill are good options, in my experience. No fair to blame the mail provider for a sender's refusal to configure things properly. Personally, I like not having to set up an unneeded extra subdomain when using Mandrill for temporary development stuff.