Originally posted on December 7, 2013. This week, in addition to writing about what we learned open sourcing a major part of Mailgun, we released a new feature we think you’ll appreciate: a postbin for debugging your webhooks.
A few weeks ago, we open sourced Flanker, our MIME parsing and email validation library. We’ve been very happy about the release and the level of interest the Python community has shown. This tweet was typical of what we’ve heard since the release:
This week we worked on a few things that we think will make a big impact for customers, particularly our shiny new Support Center. We also made some improvements to the Domains and Events APIs. So without further ado:
Back in June, we released our address validation service Guardpost. Since then many Mailgun customers have been using Guardpost to validate their email addresses and reduce their false signups as well as bounce rates.
We’ve been quiet for a couple weeks but we have something extra exciting to share today: we’ve just officially released our Domains API to make it easier to build large-scale email systems on top of Mailgun.
This week we focused on improving the Mailgun control panel and the spelling corrector for the email validation API.
We recently launched a new version of our Events API that lets you easily keep track of all your messages,
This week we focused on infrastructure improvements to reduce the chances of sending delays like those that occurred for some customers last week.
Yesterday was a bad day for Mailgun customers. We experienced significant delays and duplication of emails from approximately 20:40 pm UTC to 04:40 UTC.
This post was written by Jonathan Novak, Head of Engineering at UserVoice, where he just celebrated his 3rd year at the company. UserVoice is a complete solution for managing user engagement, feedback, helpdesk requests, and knowledge bases. Over 120,000+ organizations in over 170 countries use it to listen to their users’ voices.
Customers have recently approached us with a few use cases where the temporary storage of inbound emails would come in handy. In some cases, the attachments are large and cause time-outs when we try to POST
This post was written by Jeff Reifman, a Seattle-based technology consultant and founder of Geogram, a free group email service for local places powered by Mailgun. Follow him at @reifman.