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Mailgun Blog
blog.mailgun.com · Company blog · on HN since 2013
Mailgun's company blog covers email delivery, HTML email templates, infrastructure security, and open source tools such as a Go debugger.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for transactional email templates, security guides, and the Go debugger announcement, and call the template post a great resource.
34HN people shared it
17linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1Transactional HTML Email Templates5 people · 271 points · first shared 2014 · 32 comments on HN
- 2A cross-platform debugger for Go3 people · 379 points · first shared 2015 · 62 comments on HN
- 3Free email address validation API for web forms3 people · 249 points · first shared 2013 · 129 comments on HN
- 4How to Protect Your Infrastructure Against the Basic Attacker3 people · 187 points · first shared 2016 · 39 comments on HN
- 5Open sourcing our email signature parsing library3 people · 130 points · first shared 2014 · 20 comments on HN
- 6Machine Learning for Everyday Tasks2 people · 343 points · first shared 2016 · 75 comments on HN
- 7What port should I use?2 people · 110 points · first shared 2014 · 29 comments on HN
- 8Mailgun is now charging for email validation2 people · 8 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 9Ghost and Mailgun integration made easier2 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 10Free email validation API for web forms2 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 11How to view your messages2 people · first shared 2016
- 12Mailgun Becomes an Independent Company1 people · 230 points · first shared 2017 · 100 comments on HN
- 13Mailgun Security Incident and Important Customer Information1 people · 187 points · first shared 2018 · 59 comments on HN
- 14Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits1 people · 184 points · first shared 2013 · 64 comments on HN
- 15We just open sourced Flanker, our Python email address and Mime parsing library1 people · 160 points · first shared 2013 · 26 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
marco1 · 2016-10-18
> Sorry to break it to you, but there are things you got wrong.
I would have been surprised if this was different!
> The first thing I opened, "IT operations", and the very top item is false.
You seem to be talking about the SMTP ports, right? What do you suggest instead? Port 465 with SSL/TLS and only as a secondary solution 587 with STARTTLS?
The current statement was based on [1] which recommends not to use port 465 but instead only 587 with STARTTLS. Granted, with STARTTLS, you have some additional attack vectors.
[1] http://blog.mailgun.com/25-465-587-what-port-should-i-use/
0xmohit · 2016-08-30
One may find the following resources useful for measures on how to secure one's infrastructure:
- Security Guide: How to Protect Your Infrastructure Against the Basic Attacker [0]
- 7 Security Measures to Protect Your Servers [1]
[0] http://blog.mailgun.com/security-guide-basic-infrastructure-security/
[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/7-security-measures-t…
nodesocket · 2016-04-11
Great resource. Writing onboarding/transaction e-mail copy is tedious yet important.
Also checkout Mailgun's blog post for fully responsive css/html e-mail templates:
http://blog.mailgun.com/transactional-html-email-templates/
dsl · 2015-06-18
Could a mod please update this to point to the original announcement and not the CloudFlare regurgitation? The Mailgun folks deserve the love for their hard work.
http://blog.mailgun.com/introducing-a-new-cross-platform-debugger-for-…
twakefield · 2015-04-20
jschlatter just wrote a great blog post about this:
http://blog.mailgun.com/introducing-a-new-cross-platform-debugger-for-…
blowski · 2016-08-11
Agreed, these are very expensive if all they are is responsive email templates. ThemeForest offers similar quality for about $12, and there are lots of free ones available as well:
Zurb - http://foundation.zurb.com/emails.html
Mailgun - http://blog.mailgun.com/transactional-html-email-templates/
codegeek · 2016-05-26
In case someone is interested, mailgun offered some free transactional email templates on their blog back in 2014:
http://blog.mailgun.com/transactional-html-email-templates/
linkregister · 2016-05-19
The subset of HTML that is actually supported by most email clients is very small (and inconsistent). If you look at the well-formatted emails from AirBnB and Uber, you'll see tables and inline CSS, along with conditionals for the Outlook email client.[1]
[1] http://blog.mailgun.com/transactional-html-email-templates/
safun · 2016-02-27
For your reference: http://blog.mailgun.com/how-to-view-your-messages/
jrodom · 2016-02-26
Today, we launched a new API that allows you to access the content of messages you've sent over the last three days. We have details on our blog @ http://blog.mailgun.com/how-to-view-your-messages/
mtmail · 2015-02-07
Mailgun wrote an address validator (not verifyer) and discusses some challenges http://blog.mailgun.com/free-email-validation-api-for-web-forms/
jacquesc · 2014-07-29
Anyone know if this would work with Mailguns cool email signature parsing library? http://blog.mailgun.com/open-sourcing-our-email-signature-parsing-libr… as in, easily build an api for it?
JoshTheGeek · 2014-07-25
http://blog.mailgun.com/open-sourcing-our-email-signature-parsing-libr… (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8081532) has some screenshots with blurred email addresses you can read without fancy deciphering.
alexhaar · 2013-11-11
Has anyone tried Mailgun's email address validation service?
http://blog.mailgun.com/post/free-email-validation-api-for-web-forms/
bichiliad · 2013-10-14
For those who still want email verification, I believe Mailgun offers a pretty good API.
http://blog.mailgun.com/post/free-email-validation-api-for-web-forms/
old-gregg · 2013-09-08
Yep. I'd like to add that some ESPs have their own additional restrictions on mailbox names, plus it's usually helpful to verify the existence of the domain part (DNS) because people make mistakes all the time.
We (Mailgun) have a free service which does all of these things:
http://blog.mailgun.com/post/free-email-validation-api-for-web-forms/
100k · 2013-08-05
For the record, both of the people who have praised Swiftype in this thread are actual Swiftype customers, and both of them have written about Swiftype on their own sites (without prompting from us).
http://canadian-fury.com/2012/05/19/presenting-swiftype-integration-an…
http://blog.mailgun.com/post/weekly-product-update-mailgun-default-smt…