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Mailgun

Mailgun is a transactional mail service which was launched by Rackspace, but now operates as a standalone business.

The service is entirely free for up to 10,000 system generated emails, and also has an official, free, WordPress plugin in the repository, making it a nice choice for small to medium sized WP sites to offload their system generated mail (comment notifications, signup mails, new password emails and etc) to a third party.

We often use Mailgun for WooCommerce clients, where invoice deliverability is regarded as very important.

On 1st April 2019, Will Conway, CEO at Mailgun, announced Thoma Bravo had acquired a majority stake in Mailgun, with Turn/River retaining a minority position. The company has gone from Y-Combinator to Rackspace to Turn/River, and finally to Thoma Bravo. With a newly announced investment, we’ll be keeping a close eye on any changes, but it’s generally good news for reliability.

How to Re-Send Order Emails in WooCommerce

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If you would like to re-send any order related emails (AKA transactional mail) in WooCommerce, either to a customer, or to an admin, in order to re-notify after failure to receive, or just to issue a polite reminder about an invoice (or order), then the tutorial below will allow you to do that. How to …

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Fix Mailgun “550 Sender has no A, AAAA, or MX DNS records.”

Updated 21 May 2020. Sometimes, we setup Mailgun for transactional email, because this helps web based forms, and other, email to get sent to the right place. Its also free, as in beer, at least for the first 10,000 mails a months. But we ran into a deliverability issue on one or two domains, which …

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