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Mailgun Is Down

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mvolfik
See https://status.mailgun.com/ - major outage on all services

Now let's pray they have other notifications than via email

yoble
The emails sent by their status page are sent by status.io and are not impacted.
ved_a
SendGrid is up and running, like always :)
temp1029384
Any recommendations for an alternative mail service to use temporarily while Mailgun is down? Maybe it's good to always have two mail services available in the case that one of the two is down. It would be great to hear a best practice from someone experienced.
ulugbek7
In our company, we thought about this when Mailgun was unavailable. We wanted to create a microservice that forwards emails to Mailgun. And if Mailgun is unavailable, the service saves them for later sending. Has anyone tried to implement such a thing?
hotpotamus
Where I'm at, we basically use queues for any external dependencies. If they're down, things just queue up.
erikig
Out of curiosity - which queueing service(s) do you use?
swills
Mailgun seems to be the only major mail distributor that I can't find SMTP server IPs for to add to my grey-listing.
ev1
host -t TXT _spf.mailgun.org

host -t TXT _spf.eu.mailgun.org

covers all of them

patrickbolle
Giving me a good initiative to switch fully over to Postmark :)
clementmas
I never had any issue with Mailgun before. I'm now using Postmark as a backup service and it works very well.

It's very easy to set up with Laravel (PHP): MAIL_MAILER=failover