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Mailgun Transactional Email

Send transactional email through Mailgun without losing bounce and complaint state.

moderate Sales & Marketing Tools

What it adds

A Mailgun delivery path bound to the correct region and sending domain, with durable suppression and event handling.

What your agent is told to do

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    Put Mailgun behind the app's existing mail layer as one adapter. It is an alternative to the other transactional email integrations, not an addition; whichever adapter is in place, the template contract and suppression handling above it are unchanged.

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    Bind the region and sending domain in server-side configuration and validate at startup that they are consistent. A credential issued in one region will simply not work against another, and the failure looks like an authentication problem rather than a configuration one.

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    Check the suppression state for an address before a message is queued, not after the provider rejects it, so bouncing and complaining addresses stop consuming send attempts.

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    Send from the app's background-job system keyed on a stable per-message identifier, and store the provider's identifier on the record for support diagnostics.

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    Do not retain full message bodies for diagnostics. Keep the recipient, the message type, the timestamps, the delivery state, and the provider identifier, which are enough to answer a support question without holding a copy of every reset link the app has ever sent.

Edge cases it handles

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  • Region and sending domain must match the credential in use. Validate the combination at startup and fail loudly, rather than letting every send fail at runtime with a misleading authentication error.
  • Event webhooks arrive on a public endpoint, are retried by the provider, and can arrive out of order. Verify their authenticity, apply them idempotently, and never let a replayed older event overwrite a newer delivery state.
  • An address on the suppression list must be filtered before the message is queued. Queueing mail that will be rejected wastes attempts, muddies delivery metrics, and hides the real problem from the user whose address is broken.
  • A background job retried after a timeout must reconcile against the existing message rather than sending a second copy. Key it on a stable identifier.
  • Retaining full message bodies for diagnostics turns the log store into a source of live credentials and personal data. Keep metadata and delivery state only, with a defined retention period.
  • Transactional mail must not be blocked by marketing unsubscribe state, and marketing mail must not be routed through this path to bypass it.
  • Rate limits and transient provider errors must be distinguished from permanent rejections, backing off on the former and stopping immediately on the latter.
  • Non-production environments must suppress delivery or redirect all recipients to a fixed internal address by default, so a seeded data set cannot mail real people.

Definition of done

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  • Region and sending domain are validated at startup against the credential in use.
  • Suppressed addresses are filtered before a message is queued.
  • Event webhooks are authenticated, idempotent, and cannot regress delivery state.
  • Every message record carries the provider identifier and its delivery state.
  • Message bodies are not retained; metadata is kept under a defined retention period.
  • Retried jobs never produce a duplicate email.
  • Non-production environments cannot deliver to real recipients.
  • The feature matches the existing design system.
  • No existing functionality is broken.

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How it works

  1. 1

    Copy the link

    Grab the Markdown instruction URL for this feature.

  2. 2

    Give it to your AI

    Paste it into Claude Code, Cursor, v0, Lovable — whatever you build with.

  3. 3

    It inspects, then implements

    Your agent reads your existing app first, then adds the feature to fit it.

Works with your stack

These instructions are written to adapt. They tell the agent to detect your framework, match your existing design system, and reuse what you already have — rather than assuming a particular stack.

Need it tighter than that? Customize the feature and tell it exactly what you're running.